1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (311+ words) "Lucid Rook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and execute staged Lua bytecode payloads," Cisco Talos researcher Ashley'Shen said. The cybersecurity company said it discovered the activity in…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (489+ words) The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known'as Contagious'Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. The complete list of identified packages is as follows'- These loaders are designed to fetch platform-specific second-stage payloads,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (730+ words) "These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial loss," the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) said in a post on X. The agencies saidthe campaign is part ofa recent…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (776+ words) New academic research has identified multiple Row Hammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a'host. GPUBreach goes a step further'than GPUHammer, demonstrating for…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (651+ words) An'Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U. A. E. amid'ongoing conflict in the Middle'East. The'activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three distinct attack waves that took place on…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (642+ words) The'attack chain,'per Fortinet Forti Guard'Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF document and a Power Shell script that sets the stage for the next phase of the attack. It's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (944+ words) The cybersecurity landscape is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. What is emerging is not simply a rise in the number of vulnerabilities or tools, but a dramatic increase in speed. Speed of attack, speed of exploitation, and speed of change…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (510+ words) A pro-Ukrainian group called Bearlyfy has been attributed to more than 70 cyber attacks targeting Russian companies since it first surfaced in the threat landscape in January 2025, with recent attacks leveraging a custom Windows ransomware strain codenamed Genie Locker. "Bearlyfy (also…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (217+ words) It's not unlike the challenges SOCs are facing now. We're firmly in the Age of Imitation. Cyberattackers, equipped with AI, are mastering the art of imitating the familiar, posing as trusted users and masking their activity within legitimate processes and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (394+ words) The U. S. Department of Justice (Do J) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U. S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100, 000. Angelov, who…...