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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday placed two security flaws impacting Microsoft Partner Center and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerabilities in question are as follows –

CVE-2024-49035 (CVSS score: 8.7) – An improper access control

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an updated version of the LightSpy implant that comes equipped with an expanded set of data collection features to extract information from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
LightSpy is the name given to a modular spyware that’s capable of infecting both Windows and Apple systems with an aim to harvest data. It was first documented in

Opposition activists in Belarus as well as Ukrainian military and government organizations are the target of a new campaign that employs malware-laced Microsoft Excel documents as lures to deliver a new variant of PicassoLoader. 
The threat cluster has been assessed to be an extension of a long-running campaign mounted by a Belarus-aligned threat actor dubbed Ghostwriter (aka Moonscape,

In episode 39 of the AI Fix, our hosts watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, xAI launches Grok 3, Mark explains that AIs can design genomes now, a robot starts a punch up, Zuck becomes a mind reader, an AI cracks a ten-year science question in two days, and an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene from The Long Good Friday.

Graham learns that it always pays to be polite before running over 15 people with a train, and Mark discovers why AIs value some lives more than others, particularly their own.

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

The first quarter of 2025 has been a battlefield in the world of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals continued launching aggressive new campaigns and refining their attack methods.
Below is an overview of five notable malware families, accompanied by analyses conducted in controlled environments.
NetSupport RAT Exploiting the ClickFix Technique
In early 2025, threat actors began exploiting a technique

A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice’s product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware.
“To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants (with different hashes) of the 2.0.2 driver by modifying specific PE parts while keeping the signature valid,” Check Point

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that’s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub.
The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky.
“The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables

Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT.
“The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network (CDN) myqcloud and the Youdao Cloud Notes service as part of their attack infrastructure,” Kaspersky ICS CERT said in a Monday

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –

CVE-2017-3066 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A deserialization vulnerability impacting

A serious security vulnerability has been found in popular stalkerware apps, exposing the sensitive personal information and communications of millions of people.

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