Cyber News & Articles

A previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster dubbed LongNosedGoblin has been attributed to a series of cyber attacks targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan.
The end goal of these attacks is cyber espionage, Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said in a report published today. The threat activity cluster has been assessed to be active since at least September 2023.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has resolved a maximum-severity security flaw in OneView Software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
The critical vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-37164, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. HPE OneView is an IT infrastructure management software that streamlines IT operations and controls all systems via a

This week’s ThreatsDay Bulletin tracks how attackers keep reshaping old tools and finding new angles in familiar systems. Small changes in tactics are stacking up fast, and each one hints at where the next big breach could come from.
From shifting infrastructures to clever social hooks, the week’s activity shows just how fluid the threat landscape has become.
Here’s the full rundown of what

Within the past year, artificial intelligence copilots and agents have quietly permeated the SaaS applications businesses use every day. Tools like Zoom, Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow now come with built-in AI assistants or agent-like features. Virtually every major SaaS vendor has rushed to embed AI into their offerings.
The result is an explosion of AI capabilities across

The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new campaign that distributes a new variant of Android malware called DocSwap via QR codes hosted on phishing sites mimicking Seoul-based logistics firm CJ Logistics (formerly CJ Korea Express).
“The threat actor leveraged QR codes and notification pop-ups to lure victims into installing and executing the malware on their mobile

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting ASUS Live Update to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59374 (CVSS score: 9.3), has been described as an “embedded malicious code vulnerability” introduced by means of a supply chain compromise

Cisco has alerted users of a maximum-severity zero-day flaw in Cisco AsyncOS software that has been actively exploited by a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed UAT-9686 in attacks targeting Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager.
The networking equipment major said it became aware of the intrusion campaign on December 10, 2025, and that it

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) have been instrumental in driving a surge in global cryptocurrency theft in 2025, accounting for at least $2.02 billion out of more than $3.4 billion stolen from January through early December.
The figure represents a 51% increase year-over-year and $681 million more than 2024, when the threat actors stole

Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of your credit card.

Plus a blast from 2021’s “summer of ransomware” returns to haunt Ireland’s Health Service Executive, as victims are offered €750 each.

And because it’s the last show before the Christmas break, there’s also a Pick of the Week that veers from cosy rom-com comfort to pointy-polygon nostalgia.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast with computer security veteran Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Danny Palmer.

SonicWall has rolled out fixes to address a security flaw in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that it said has been actively exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40602 (CVSS score: 6.6), concerns a case of local privilege escalation that arises as a result of insufficient authorization in the appliance management console (AMC).
It affects the following