Cybersecurity

Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble 

Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble 

Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table.

Meanwhile, researchers have found they could poke around an FIA driver portal to pull up the personal details of Formula 1 megastars.

All this and more is discussed in episode 441 of “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Danny Palmer.

Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices 

Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices 

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi.
“These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to gain control over exposed systems and expand botnet networks,” the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) said in a report

New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts 

New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts 

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agentic web browsers like OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that exposes underlying artificial intelligence (AI) models to context poisoning attacks.
In the attack devised by AI security company SPLX, a bad actor can set up websites that serve different content to browsers and AI crawlers run by ChatGPT and Perplexity. The technique has been

Preparing for the Digital Battlefield of 2026: Ghost Identities, Poisoned Accounts, & AI Agent Havoc 

Preparing for the Digital Battlefield of 2026: Ghost Identities, Poisoned Accounts, & AI Agent Havoc 

BeyondTrust’s annual cybersecurity predictions point to a year where old defenses will fail quietly, and new attack vectors will surge.
Introduction
The next major breach won’t be a phished password. It will be the result of a massive, unmanaged identity debt. This debt takes many forms: it’s the “ghost” identity from a 2015 breach lurking in your IAM, the privilege sprawl from thousands of new

Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics 

Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics 

Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised networks.
The activity, according to a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, targeted a large business services organization for two months and a local government entity in the country for a week.
The attacks

Discover Practical AI Tactics for GRC — Join the Free Expert Webinar 

Discover Practical AI Tactics for GRC — Join the Free Expert Webinar 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). It’s no longer a future concept—it’s here, and it’s already reshaping how teams operate.
AI’s capabilities are profound: it’s speeding up audits, flagging critical risks faster, and drastically cutting down on time-consuming manual work. This leads to greater efficiency, higher accuracy, and a more

10 npm Packages Caught Stealing Developer Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux 

10 npm Packages Caught Stealing Developer Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux 

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 10 malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver an information stealer targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.
“The malware uses four layers of obfuscation to hide its payload, displays a fake CAPTCHA to appear legitimate, fingerprints victims by IP address, and downloads a 24MB PyInstaller-packaged information stealer that harvests

Active Exploits Hit Dassault and XWiki — CISA Confirms Critical Flaws Under Attack 

Active Exploits Hit Dassault and XWiki — CISA Confirms Critical Flaws Under Attack 

Threat actors are actively exploiting multiple security flaws impacting Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso and XWiki, according to alerts issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and VulnCheck.
The vulnerabilities are listed below –

CVE-2025-6204 (CVSS score: 8.0) – A code injection vulnerability in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso that could allow an attacker to

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies 

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies 

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users.

New TEE.Fail Side-Channel Attack Extracts Secrets from Intel and AMD DDR5 Secure Enclaves 

New TEE.Fail Side-Channel Attack Extracts Secrets from Intel and AMD DDR5 Secure Enclaves 

A group of academic researchers from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, and Synkhronix have developed a side-channel attack called TEE.Fail that allows for the extraction of secrets from the trusted execution environment (TEE) in a computer’s main processor, including Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) and Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure

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