Cyber News & Articles

Stealer malware no longer just steals passwords. In 2025, it steals live sessions—and attackers are moving faster and more efficiently than ever.
While many associate account takeovers with personal services, the real threat is unfolding in the enterprise. Flare’s latest research, The Account and Session Takeover Economy, analyzed over 20 million stealer logs and tracked attacker activity across

A financially motivated threat actor has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw affecting the Craft Content Management System (CMS) to deploy multiple payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, a loader dubbed Mimo Loader, and residential proxyware.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32432, a maximum severity flaw in Craft CMS that was patched in

Would you expect an end user to log on to a cybercriminal’s computer, open their browser, and type in their usernames and passwords? Hopefully not! But that’s essentially what happens if they fall victim to a Browser-in-the-Middle (BitM) attack.
Like Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, BiTM sees criminals look to control the data flow between the victim’s computer and the target service, as

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated cloud-based scanning activity that targeted 75 distinct “exposure points” earlier this month.
The activity, observed by GreyNoise on May 8, 2025, involved as many as 251 malicious IP addresses that are all geolocated to Japan and hosted by Amazon.
“These IPs triggered 75 distinct behaviors, including CVE exploits,

Apple on Tuesday revealed that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone.
The company said the App Store is confronted by a wide range of threats that seek to defraud users in various ways, ranging from “deceptive apps designed to steal personal information to fraudulent payment schemes that attempt to exploit

Lovers of Adidas clothes would be wise to be on their guard against phishing attacks, after the German sportswear giant revealed that a cyber attack had exposed the personal information of customers.

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

Misconfigured Docker API instances have become the target of a new malware campaign that transforms them into a cryptocurrency mining botnet.
The attacks, designed to mine for Dero currency, is notable for its worm-like capabilities to propagate the malware to other exposed Docker instances and rope them into an ever-growing horde of mining bots.
Kaspersky said it observed an unidentified threat

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malicious campaign that uses a fake website advertising antivirus software from Bitdefender to dupe victims into downloading a remote access trojan called Venom RAT.
The campaign indicates a “clear intent to target individuals for financial gain by compromising their credentials, crypto wallets, and potentially selling access to their systems,” the

In episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don’t exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony Ive waffling about products that don’t exist, some non-existent robots stack empty crates in a factory that doesn’t exist, and OpenAI releases Codex, an AI agent destined to make your software engineering job not exist.

Graham reveals how an AI called “Thy” has ruined his childhood dream of becoming a late night radio DJ, and Mark looks at an experiment that showed groups of AI agents spontaneously create social norms—the building blocks of a society.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of threat activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed to “worldwide cloud abuse.”
Active since at least April 2024, the hacking group is linked to espionage operations mainly targeting organizations that are important to Russian government objectives,