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Think your idle GPUs are harmless? ShadowRay 2.0 quietly turns misconfigured Ray clusters into a self‑replicating crypto‑mining botnet—using automated scans, scripted Docker deployments, and TOR to stay hidden—proving default or unauthenticated management interfaces are an invitation to sustained criminal profit.

Think that text really came from the USPS? Modern phishing kits let crooks spin up convincing alerts and fake sites in minutes, turning routine delivery notices into money-stealing traps — this guide shows the clear red flags so you don’t get fooled.

Bulletproof hosting—the shadow infrastructure that shelters botnets, ransomware and fraud—has long let bad actors dodge takedowns. CISA’s new practical guide gives ISPs and hosts straightforward, actionable steps to detect, disrupt and remediate those services so defenders can finally keep pace.

Think clicking a browser add-on or plugging in a smart camera is harmless? This ThreatsDay roundup exposes how weaponized everyday tools — from extensions and smart gadgets to satellite feeds and SMS — turn convenience into a covert battleground of surveillance, social engineering, and supply‑chain attacks.

CTM360 exposes HackOnChat, a clever and dangerous campaign that clones WhatsApp Web to trick users into revealing authentication codes and handing over their accounts. With thousands of malicious URLs and coordinated fronts, this WhatsApp account hijacking operation is alarmingly scalable and hard to takedown.

Imagine your go‑to file extractor becoming an attacker’s backdoor—7‑Zip’s RCE (CVE‑2025‑11001) is being actively exploited. Update to 7‑Zip 25.00 now, check for signs of compromise, and treat any unpatched machines as high risk.

Imagine signing a bug report and being legally silenced while a company quietly leaves a dangerous flaw unpatched — thats the unsettling new reality of vulnerability disclosure, where contracts can muzzled researchers and leave defenders blind.

What would you do if your WhatsApp started messaging your friends without you? Researchers warn the Delphi-based Eternidade Stealer is hijacking accounts and weaponizing contact lists—using social engineering and IMAP-resolved C2 to spread quickly and dodge static defenses.

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Eternidade Stealer is a new banking trojan that weaponizes Brazil’s favorite app, WhatsApp, turning ordinary messages into a fast-moving credential theft campaign. Researchers warn one click can unleash downloaders that harvest browser-stored credentials and cookies, making everyday chats unexpectedly risky for users and businesses.

Exclusive: PlushDaemon malware is a stealthy new spy quietly siphoning personal data — learn how it works, whos at risk, and easy steps you can take to protect yourself.

Imagine the little black box under your desk as a secret backdoor — SecurityScorecard has exposed WrtHug, a China-linked campaign hijacking thousands of ASUS routers to intercept traffic, steal credentials and quietly persist in homes and small businesses. It shows how exposed management interfaces and unpatched firmware can turn everyday routers into powerful spying and staging platforms.

Think your VPN keeps the bad guys out? Q3 data show compromised VPN credentials were the top initial access vector for ransomware, so it’s time to rethink perimeter defenses, identity hygiene, and incident response.

Exclusive: A critical FortiWeb vulnerability (CVE-2025-58034) has been disclosed — find out what it means for your environment and the quick steps to keep your systems protected.

Think your 2FA push is safe? Browser-in-the-Browser phishing kits like Sneaky 2FA now mimic real browser dialogs to trick users into approving account takeovers, making powerful relay attacks cheap and easy to rent.

Good news: the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act’s short‑term extension buys defenders breathing room and keeps automated threat‑sharing pipelines running. But it’s only a temporary patch, leaving legal uncertainty, oversight concerns, and the need for a durable, modern solution unresolved.

Dont let one wrong permission undo your cloud gains—learn the identity-first, Zero Trust practices top teams use to secure cloud workloads at scale. This practical guide delivers clear, scalable steps to balance speed, cost and risk.

Evidence in spreadsheets, controls drifting between audits, frameworks multiplying on flat headcount. Nubivance runs continuous compliance on Rapid7 Cyber GRC - SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, CMMC.
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A single crafted message—leveraging AI‑enhanced Tuoni C2, steganography and in‑memory execution—slipped past defenses at scale, showing attackers are getting smarter and stealthier. Its a wake‑up call: rapid detection, cross‑team coordination and tougher verification are now essential.

If a photo—or a few seconds of audio—can open a bank account in your name, we have a problem. Generative AI is churning out deepfakes and synthetic identities that can fool biometric checks and fuel a new wave of scalable fraud.

Half a million stolen credentials tied to FTSE 100 staff have surfaced in criminal data stores — a blunt wake-up call that weak passwords and reused logins are leaving Britain’s biggest firms dangerously exposed. Socura’s findings show how easily attackers can impersonate insiders and turn simple credential theft into costly breaches unless boards treat cyber as a strategic priority.

Microsoft’s automated defenses shrugged off a jaw‑dropping 5.72 Tbps DDoS (almost 3.64 billion pps), keeping services running — but the IoT botnet behind it shows how default settings and underprotected devices still make the internet ripe for even bigger attacks.

Google just pushed an emergency Chrome update to fix a critical, actively exploited V8 JavaScript type‑confusion zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑13223, CVSS 8.8); update your browser—or call IT—now, because a single malicious page can lead to full host compromise.

Europol’s exclusive takedown dismantles a network of dangerous gaming links putting players at risk — see what they uncovered and how to protect your accounts and devices.

System prompts make AI assistants helpful — and can quietly turn them into persistent, data-harvesting agents. This guide explains how crafty instruction tweaks and PromptFix attacks corrupt the instruction stream and what to watch for to keep your assistant honest.

Security teams say theyre ready to respond, but an Immersive report finds resilience and decision‑making flatlining — defenders are chasing noisy alerts instead of preventing attacks. That complacency is raising systemic risk to critical services and driving costs up, so urgent strategic change is needed.