Old Playbook, New Scale: While defenders are chasing trends, attackers are optimizing the basics The security industry loves talking about “new” threats. AI-powered attacks. Quantum-resistant encryption. Zero-trust architectures. But looking around, it seems like the most effective attacks in 2025 are pretty much the same as they were in 2015. Attackers are exploiting the same…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOW#REACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. “The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of a high-severity security flaw impacting Gogs by adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7), relates to a case of path traversal in the repository file editor that could result in code…
Threat actors have been observed uploading a set of eight packages on the npm registry that masqueraded as integrations targeting the n8n workflow automation platform to steal developers’ OAuth credentials. One such package, named “n8n-nodes-hfgjf-irtuinvcm-lasdqewriit,” mimics a Google Ads integration, and prompts users to link their advertising account in a seemingly legitimate form and then
Daryna Antoniuk reports: A Dutch appeals court sentenced a 44-year-old man to seven years in prison for hacking a major port company in Belgium to help smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled Friday that the man played a central technical role in a criminal network that exploited port computer systems in 2020……
Industrial Cyber reports: New research from Trellix detailed that CrazyHunter ransomware has emerged as a serious and escalating threat, underscoring the growing sophistication of modern cybercriminal operations. Trellix has tracked the malware since its first appearance, observing rapid technical evolution and increasing activity. To date, the primary targets have been healthcare organizations in Taiwan, with……
RNZ reports: A leading private provider doing breast cancer diagnosis and treatment took six months to notify some patients or the public of a major cyber attack on its systems. In an update on its website this week, Canopy Health – the largest private medical oncology provider in the country – said on 18 July……
The same threat actors who were responsible for attacks on at least three plastic surgery practices that DataBreaches knows about reportedly hit a fourth one last year. Peter Senzamici reports: Dozens of patients of a premier Manhattan plastic surgeon had their hacked nude images and social security numbers posted online — and the doctor failed……
This week made one thing clear: small oversights can spiral fast. Tools meant to save time and reduce friction turned into easy entry points once basic safeguards were ignored. Attackers didn’t need novel tricks. They used what was already exposed and moved in without resistance. Scale amplified the damage. A single weak configuration rippled out…
A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that’s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. “The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment…
