Cyber News & Articles
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy Igorevich Rybtsov, a 41-year-old from the Russia-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, was previously referenced in U.S. federal charging documents only by his online handle “MrICQ.” According to a 13-year-old indictment filed by prosecutors in Nebraska, MrICQ was a developer for a cybercrime group known as “Jabber Zeus.”
ASD Warns of Ongoing BADCANDY Attacks Exploiting Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previously undocumented implant known as BADCANDY.
The activity, per the intelligence agency, involves the exploitation of CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an
OpenAI Unveils Aardvark: GPT-5 Agent That Finds and Fixes Code Flaws Automatically
OpenAI has announced the launch of an “agentic security researcher” that’s powered by its GPT-5 large language model (LLM) and is programmed to emulate a human expert capable of scanning, understanding, and patching code.
Called Aardvark, the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the autonomous agent is designed to help developers and security teams flag and fix security vulnerabilities at
Nation-State Hackers Deploy New Airstalk Malware in Suspected Supply Chain Attack
A suspected nation-state threat actor has been linked to the distribution of a new malware called Airstalk as part of a likely supply chain attack.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it’s tracking the cluster under the moniker CL-STA-1009, where “CL” stands for cluster and “STA” refers to state-backed motivation.
“Airstalk misuses the AirWatch API for mobile device management (MDM), which is now
China-Linked Hackers Exploit Windows Shortcut Flaw to Target European Diplomats
A China-affiliated threat actor known as UNC6384 has been linked to a fresh set of attacks exploiting an unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability to target European diplomatic and government entities between September and October 2025.
The activity targeted diplomatic organizations in Hungary, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands, as well as government agencies in Serbia, Arctic Wolf said in a
China-Linked Tick Group Exploits Lanscope Zero-Day to Hijack Corporate Systems
The exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager has been attributed to a cyber espionage group known as Tick.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS score: 9.3), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges on on-premise versions of the program. JPCERT/CC, in an alert issued this month, said that it
The MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Guide: Turning Security into Growth
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CISA and NSA Issue Urgent Guidance to Secure WSUS and Microsoft Exchange Servers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Security Agency (NSA), along with international partners from Australia and Canada, have released guidance to harden on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server instances from potential exploitation.
“By restricting administrative access, implementing multi-factor authentication, enforcing strict transport security
Eclipse Foundation Revokes Leaked Open VSX Tokens Following Wiz Discovery
Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the open-source Open VSX project, said it has taken steps to revoke a small number of tokens that were leaked within Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions published in the marketplace.
The action comes following a report from cloud security company Wiz earlier this month, which found several extensions from both Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX
CISA Flags VMware Zero-Day Exploited by China-Linked Hackers in Active Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), which could be exploited by an attacker to attain