Cyber News & Articles

INC is the name of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that first appeared in late summer 2023. Learn more about what it has been up to, and how to protect against its attacks, in my article on the Fortra blog.

Companies in the legal services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and technology sectors in the U.S. have been targeted by a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group to deliver a known backdoor referred to as BRICKSTORM.
The activity, attributed to UNC5221 and closely related, suspected China-nexus threat clusters, is designed to facilitate

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Wondershare RepairIt that exposed private user data and potentially exposed the system to artificial intelligence (AI) model tampering and supply chain risks.
The critical-rated vulnerabilities in question, discovered by Trend Micro, are listed below –

CVE-2025-10643 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An authentication bypass vulnerability that

Most businesses don’t make it past their fifth birthday – studies show that roughly 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years. So when KNP Logistics Group (formerly Knights of Old) celebrated more than a century and a half of operations, it had mastered the art of survival. For 158 years, KNP adapted and endured, building a transport business that operated 500 trucks

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in a London court to face accusations of hacking into and extorting several large U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and healthcare providers in the United States.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware family dubbed YiBackdoor that has been found to share “significant” source code overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus.
“The exact connection to YiBackdoor is not yet clear, but it may be used in conjunction with Latrodectus and IcedID during attacks,” Zscaler ThreatLabz said in a Tuesday report. “YiBackdoor is able to execute

Think payment iframes are secure by design? Think again. Sophisticated attackers have quietly evolved malicious overlay techniques to exploit checkout pages and steal credit card data by bypassing the very security policies designed to stop them.
Download the complete iframe security guide here. 
TL;DR: iframe Security Exposed
Payment iframes are being actively exploited by attackers using

Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS).
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-51591 (CVSS score: 6.5), which refers to a case of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows attackers to

Libraesva has released a security update to address a vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) solution that it said has been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, carries a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating medium severity.
“Libraesva ESG is affected by a command injection flaw that can be triggered by a malicious email containing a

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image.
The medium-severity vulnerabilities, both of which stem from improper verification of a cryptographic signature, are