Cybersecurity News

Fake Kling AI Facebook Ads Deliver RAT Malware to Over 22 Million Potential Victims

Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Counterfeit Facebook pages and sponsored ads on the social media platform are being employed to direct users to fake websites masquerading as Kling AI with the goal of tricking victims into downloading malware. Kling AI is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to synthesize images and videos from text and image prompts. Launched in June 2024, it's developed by Kuaishou Technology,

Securing CI/CD workflows with Wazuh

Wed, 21 May 2025 16:55:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) refers to practices that automate how code is developed and released to different environments. CI/CD pipelines are fundamental in modern software development, ensuring code is consistently tested, built, and deployed quickly and efficiently. While CI/CD automation accelerates software delivery, it can also introduce security

How to Detect Phishing Attacks Faster: Tycoon2FA Example

Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:00 +0530
The Hacker News

It takes just one email to compromise an entire system. A single well-crafted message can bypass filters, trick employees, and give attackers the access they need. Left undetected, these threats can lead to credential theft, unauthorized access, and even full-scale breaches. As phishing techniques become more evasive, they can no longer be reliably caught by automated solutions alone. Let’s take

Researchers Expose PWA JavaScript Attack That Redirects Users to Adult Scam Apps

Wed, 21 May 2025 14:31:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs malicious JavaScript injections to redirect site visitors on mobile devices to a Chinese adult-content Progressive Web App (PWA) scam. "While the payload itself is nothing new (yet another adult gambling scam), the delivery method stands out," c/side researcher Himanshu Anand said in a Tuesday analysis. "The malicious landing

Google Chrome's Built-in Manager Lets Users Update Breached Passwords with One Click

Wed, 21 May 2025 12:41:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Google has announced a new feature in its Chrome browser that lets its built-in Password Manager automatically change a user's password when it detects the credentials to be compromised. "When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically," Google's Ashima Arora, Chirag Desai, and Eiji Kitamura said. "On

Hazy Hawk Exploits DNS Records to Hijack CDC, Corporate Domains for Malware Delivery

Tue, 20 May 2025 21:23:00 +0530
The Hacker News

A threat actor known as Hazy Hawk has been observed hijacking abandoned cloud resources of high-profile organizations, including Amazon S3 buckets and Microsoft Azure endpoints, by leveraging misconfigurations in the Domain Name System (DNS) records. The hijacked domains are then used to host URLs that direct users to scams and malware via traffic distribution systems (TDSes), according to

100+ Fake Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Sessions, Stealing Credentials, Injecting Ads

Tue, 20 May 2025 20:31:00 +0530
The Hacker News

An unknown threat actor has been attributed to creating several malicious Chrome Browser extensions since February 2024 that masquerade as seemingly benign utilities but incorporate covert functionality to exfiltrate data, receive commands, and execute arbitrary code. "The actor creates websites that masquerade as legitimate services, productivity tools, ad and media creation or analysis

AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation

Tue, 20 May 2025 18:12:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts. "These roles, often created automatically or recommended during setup, grant overly broad permissions, such as full S3