A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America. The malware, according to a new report published by ThreatFabric, has also adopted improved obfuscation techniques to hinder analysis and detection, and includes the ability to create new contacts in the […]
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Google has revealed that it will no longer trust digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock citing “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year.” The changes are expected to be introduced in Chrome 139, which is scheduled for public release in early August 2025. The current major version is 137. The update […]
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Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced that they are teaming up to align their individual threat actor taxonomies by publishing a new joint threat actor mapping. “By mapping where our knowledge of these actors align, we will provide security professionals with the ability to connect insights faster and make decisions with greater confidence,” Vasu Jakkal, corporate […]
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Google on Monday released out-of-band fixes to address three security issues in its Chrome browser, including one that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity flaw is being tracked as CVE-2025-5419, and has been flagged as an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. “Out-of-bounds […]
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that’s targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies. Cloud security firm Wiz, which is tracking the activity under the name JINX-0132, said the attackers are exploiting a wide range of known misconfigurations […]
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Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in preloaded Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz that could enable any app installed on the device to perform a factory reset and encrypt an application. A brief description of the three flaws is as follows – CVE-2024-13915 (CVSS score: 6.9) – A pre-installed “com.pri.factorytest” application on […]
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Qualcomm has shipped security updates to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in limited, targeted attacks in the wild. The flaws in question, which were responsibly disclosed to the company by the Google Android Security team, are listed below – CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-21480 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Two incorrect authorization vulnerabilities […]
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If this had been a security drill, someone would’ve said it went too far. But it wasn’t a drill—it was real. The access? Everything looked normal. The tools? Easy to find. The detection? Came too late. This is how attacks happen now—quiet, convincing, and fast. Defenders aren’t just chasing hackers anymore—they’re struggling to trust what […]
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A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made.
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