Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) vulnerability abused to harvest sensitive data
Exploitation of CVE-2025-59287 began after public disclosure and the release of proof-of-concept code
Threat hunters have discovered a network of more than 1,000 compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices that have been used to facilitate a prolonged cyber espionage infrastructure campaign for China-nexus hacking groups. The Operational Relay Box (ORB) network has been codenamed LapDogs by SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team. “The LapDogs network has a high concentration…
Suzanne Smalley reports: The Treasury Department has agreed to temporarily block all but two members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing sensitive payment records and to limit their access to “read-only,” according to a Wednesday court filing. The DOGE workers allowed to continue accessing Treasury’s payment systems are Tom…
Raphael Satter reports: A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters. […] The hack occurred after……
Robert Lemos writes: An open server hosted on a German cloud provider’s systems has been discovered, containing the entire toolset of a member of the Beast ransomware group. The find exposes the tactics, techniques, and procedures of the threat actor, but also reveals that Beast shares many of those TTPs with other ransomware gangs. According……
A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud for his role in a series of international ransomware attacks. According to court documents, Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, 35, of Barcelona, Spain, conspired with others to deploy the Nefilim ransomware against victim computer networks in the United States and other countries,……
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to deliver a remote access trojan called SilentSync on Windows systems. “SilentSync is capable of remote command execution, file exfiltration, and screen capturing,” Zscaler ThreatLabz’s Manisha Ramcharan Prajapati and Satyam Singh said. “SilentSync also extracts