Cyber News & Articles

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud.
“Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers

E-commerce security company Sansec has warned that threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms, with more than 250 attack attempts recorded against multiple stores over the past 24 hours.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-54236 (CVSS score: 9.1), a critical improper input validation flaw that could be

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability, CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), impacts on-premises versions of Lanscope Endpoint Manager, specifically Client

A literal insider threat: we head to a Romanian prison where “self-service” web kiosks allowed inmates to run wild. Then we head to the checkout aisle to ask why JavaScript on payment pages went feral, and how new PCI DSS rules are finally muzzling Magecart-style skimmers.

Plus: Graham reveals his new-found superpower with Keyboard Maestro, and Scott describes a slick new way to whip up beautiful how-to videos with Screen Studio.

All this and more is discussed in episode 440 of “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Scott Helme.

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada’s anti money-laundering laws come ten months after KrebsOnSecurity noted that Cryptomus’s Vancouver street address was home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which were physically located there.

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including over 100 government entities.
The end goal of the campaign is to infiltrate high-value targets and facilitate intelligence gathering

Normally when we write about a malware operation being disrupted, it’s because it has been shut down by law enforcement. But in the case of Lumma Stealer, a notorious malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation used to steal passwords and sensitive data, it appears to have been sabotaged by other cybercriminals.

Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine’s war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2).
The activity, which took place on October 8, 2025, targeted individual members of the International Red Cross, Norwegian Refugee

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025.
Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as government agencies in South America, a university in the U.S., as well as likely a state technology

From Detection to Resolution: Why the Gap Persists
A critical vulnerability is identified in an exposed cloud asset. Within hours, five different tools alert you about it: your vulnerability scanner, XDR, CSPM, SIEM, and CMDB each surface the issue in their own way, with different severity levels, metadata, and context.
What’s missing is a system of action. How do you transition from the