Cybersecurity News

Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:09:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and its author to sneak in a cryptocurrency wallet stealer. The malicious package, named "Tracer.Fody.NLog," remained on the repository for nearly six years. It was published by a user named "csnemess" on February 26, 2020. It masquerades as "Tracer.Fody,"

Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:57:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Amazon's threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a "years-long" Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025. Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has

Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0530
The Hacker News

AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as the surface area they must cover is expanding quickly while their staffing levels remain largely

Fortinet FortiGate Under Active Attack Through SAML SSO Authentication Bypass

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:28:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public disclosure. Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said it observed active intrusions involving malicious single sign-on (SSO) logins on FortiGate appliances on December 12, 2025. The attacks exploit two critical authentication bypasses (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719

React2Shell Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Deploy Linux Backdoors

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:51:00 +0530
The Hacker News

The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT Security. "KSwapDoor is a professionally engineered remote access tool designed with stealth in mind," Justin Moore, senior manager of threat intel research at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, said in a

Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:32:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Google has announced that it's discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web. To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026, and the feature will cease to exist effective February 16, 2026. "While the report offered general

Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:16:00 +0530
The Hacker News

A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity. The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome

FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:02:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations. The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below - CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) - Numerous