Cybersecurity News

Salesloft Takes Drift Offline After OAuth Token Theft Hits Hundreds of Organizations

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:23:00 +0530
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Salesloft on Tuesday announced that it's taking Drift temporarily offline "in the very near future," as multiple companies have been ensnared in a far-reaching supply chain attack spree targeting the marketing software-as-a-service product, resulting in the mass theft of authentication tokens. "This will provide the fastest path forward to comprehensively review the application and build

Lazarus Group Expands Malware Arsenal With PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:09:00 +0530
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The North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a social engineering campaign that distributes three different pieces of cross-platform malware called PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE. The attack, observed by NCC Group's Fox-IT in 2024, targeted an organization in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, ultimately leading to the compromise of an

Researchers Warn of MystRodX Backdoor Using DNS and ICMP Triggers for Stealthy Control

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:26:00 +0530
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a stealthy new backdoor called MystRodX that comes with a variety of features to capture sensitive data from compromised systems. "MystRodX is a typical backdoor implemented in C++, supporting features like file management, port forwarding, reverse shell, and socket management," QiAnXin XLab said in a report published last week. "Compared to typical

Shadow AI Discovery: A Critical Part of Enterprise AI Governance

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:00 +0530
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The Harsh Truths of AI Adoption MITs State of AI in Business report revealed that while 40% of organizations have purchased enterprise LLM subscriptions, over 90% of employees are actively using AI tools in their daily work. Similarly, research from Harmonic Security found that 45.4% of sensitive AI interactions are coming from personal email accounts, where employees are bypassing corporate

Ukrainian Network FDN3 Launches Massive Brute-Force Attacks on SSL VPN and RDP Devices

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:08:00 +0530
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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Ukrainian IP network for engaging in massive brute-force and password spraying campaigns targeting SSL VPN and RDP devices between June and July 2025. The activity originated from a Ukraine-based autonomous system FDN3 (AS211736), per French cybersecurity company Intrinsec. "We believe with a high level of confidence that FDN3 is part of a wider abusive

Silver Fox Exploits Microsoft-Signed WatchDog Driver to Deploy ValleyRAT Malware

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:09:00 +0530
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The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been attributed to abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver associated with WatchDog Anti-malware as part of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack aimed at disarming security solutions installed on compromised hosts. The vulnerable driver in question is "amsdk.sys" (version 1.0.600), a 64-bit, validly signed Windows kernel device driver

Malicious npm Package nodejs-smtp Mimics Nodemailer, Targets Atomic and Exodus Wallets

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:10:00 +0530
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that comes with stealthy features to inject malicious code into desktop apps for cryptocurrency wallets like Atomic and Exodus on Windows systems. The package, named nodejs-smtp, impersonates the legitimate email library nodemailer with an identical tagline, page styling, and README descriptions, attracting a total of 347

Android Droppers Now Deliver SMS Stealers and Spyware, Not Just Banking Trojans

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:58:00 +0530
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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new shift in the Android malware landscape where dropper apps, which are typically used to deliver banking trojans, to also distribute simpler malware such as SMS stealers and basic spyware. These campaigns are propagated via dropper apps masquerading as government or banking apps in India and other parts of Asia, ThreatFabric said in a report