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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report published by Proofpoint, the threat actor has been found orchestrating phishing campaigns using developer role recruitment or code review themes

A suspected nation-state threat actor has been linked to the distribution of a new malware called Airstalk as part of a likely supply chain attack. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it’s tracking the cluster under the moniker CL-STA-1009, where “CL” stands for cluster and “STA” refers to state-backed motivation. “Airstalk misuses the AirWatch API…

Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code with an aim to fuel ClickFix attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-26980 (CVSS score: 9.4), an SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost’s Content API that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read…

The Russian-speaking hacking group called RedCurl has been linked to a ransomware campaign for the first time, marking a departure in the threat actor’s tradecraft. The activity, observed by Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender, involves the deployment of a never-before-seen ransomware strain dubbed QWCrypt. RedCurl, also called Earth Kapre and Red Wolf, has a history of…

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NCC Group saw over 570 ransomware attacks in December 2024, the highest number since it started monitoring them in 2021.  The post Record Number of Ransomware Attacks in December 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek.