Cyber News & Articles

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent that could allow an attacker to leak sensitive Gmail inbox data with a single crafted email without any user action.
The new class of attack has been codenamed ShadowLeak by Radware. Following responsible disclosure on June 18, 2025, the issue was addressed by OpenAI in early August.
“The attack

An Iran-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC1549 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting European telecommunications companies, successfully infiltrating 34 devices across 11 organizations as part of a recruitment-themed activity on LinkedIn.
Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the cluster under the name Subtle Snail. It’s assessed to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic

A proxy network known as REM Proxy is powered by malware known as SystemBC, offering about 80% of the botnet to its users, according to new findings from the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies.
“REM Proxy is a sizeable network, which also markets a pool of 20,000 Mikrotik routers and a variety of open proxies it finds freely available online,” the company said in a report shared with

Fortra has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software that could result in the execution of arbitrary commands.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity.
“A deserialization vulnerability in the License Servlet of Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT allows an actor with a validly forged

The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offering known as Lighthouse and Lucid has been linked to more than 17,500 phishing domains targeting 316 brands from 74 countries.
“Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) deployments have risen significantly recently,” Netcraft said in a new report. “The PhaaS operators charge a monthly fee for phishing software with pre-installed templates impersonating, in some cases,

Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features over 1,000 pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community – all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition.
The workflow we are highlighting streamlines security alert handling by automatically identifying and executing the appropriate Standard

Cybersecurity researchers have discerned evidence of two Russian hacking groups Gamaredon and Turla collaborating together to target and co-comprise Ukrainian entities.
Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said it observed the Gamaredon tools PteroGraphin and PteroOdd being used to execute Turla group’s Kazuar backdoor on an endpoint in Ukraine in February 2025, indicating that Turla is very likely

28-year-old Daniel Lee Newhard, an American citizen living in Estonia, has been charged in relation to the notorious hack of Vastaamo, the biggest data breach in Finnish history.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Law enforcement authorities in the U.K. have arrested two teen members of the Scattered Spider hacking group in connection with their alleged participation in an August 2024 cyber attack targeting Transport for London (TfL), the city’s public transportation agency.
Thalha Jubair (aka EarthtoStar, Brad, Austin, and @autistic), 19, from East London and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, West Midlands

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released details of two sets of malware that were discovered in an unnamed organization’s network following the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM).
“Each set contains loaders for malicious listeners that enable cyber threat actors to run arbitrary code on the compromised server,”