Google expands Android scam protection feature to Chase, Cash App in U.S.
Google is expanding support for its Android's in-call scam protection to multiple banks and financial applications in the United States. [...]
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Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack
In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second. [...]
Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras
The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a foreign adult site. [...]
FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. [...]
Shai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets
The second Shai-Hulud attack last week exposed around 400,000 raw secrets after infecting hundreds of packages in the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry and publishing stolen data in 30,000 GitHub repositories. [...]
Google fixes two Android zero days exploited in attacks, 107 flaws
Google has released the December 2025 Android security bulletin, addressing 107 vulnerabilities, including two flaws actively exploited in targeted attacks. [...]
Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
An ongoing phishing campaign impersonates popular brands, such as Unilever, Disney, MasterCard, LVMH, and Uber, in Calendly-themed lures to steal Google Workspace and Facebook business account credentials. [...]
Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages
The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms. [...]
SmartTube YouTube app for Android TV breached to push malicious update
The popular open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV was compromised after an attacker gained access to the developer's signing keys, leading to a malicious update being pushed to users. [...]
Retail giant Coupang data breach impacts 33.7 million customers
South Korea's largest retailer, Coupang, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 33.7 million customers. [...]
ShadyPanda browser extensions amass 4.3M installs in malicious campaign
A long-running malware operation known as "ShadyPanda" has amassed over 4.3 million installations of seemingly legitimate Chrome and Edge browser extensions that evolved into malware. [...]
Japanese beer giant Asahi says data breach hit 1.5 million people
Asahi Group Holdings, Japan's largest beer producer, has finished the investigation into the September cyberattack and found that the incident has impacted up to 1.9 million individuals. [...]
Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia. [...]
Public GitLab repositories exposed more than 17,000 secrets
After scanning all 5.6 million public repositories on GitLab Cloud, a security engineer discovered more than 17,000 exposed secrets across over 2,800 unique domains. [...]
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
Unrestricted large language models (LLMs) like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT are improving their capabilities to generate malicious code, delivering functional scripts for ransomware encryptors and lateral movement. [...]
GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet
GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. [...]
New ShadowV2 botnet malware used AWS outage as a test opportunity
A new Mirai-based botnet malware named 'ShadowV2' has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities. [...]
Popular Forge library gets fix for signature verification bypass flaw
A vulnerability in the 'node-forge' package, a popular JavaScript cryptography library, could be exploited to bypass signature verifications by crafting data that appears valid. [...]
Multiple London councils' IT systems disrupted by cyberattack
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and the Westminster City Council (WCC) announced that they are experiencing service disruptions following a cybersecurity issue. [...]
Tor switches to new Counter Galois Onion relay encryption algorithm
Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). [...]
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. [...]
Malicious Blender model files deliver StealC infostealing malware
A Russian-linked campaign delivers the StealC V2 information stealer malware through malicious Blender files uploaded to 3D model marketplaces like CGTrader. [...]
ClickFix attack uses fake Windows Update screen to push malware
New ClickFix attack variants have been observed where threat actors trick users with a realistic-looking Windows Update animation in a full-screen browser page and hide the malicious code inside images. [...]
Real-estate finance services giant SitusAMC breach exposes client data
SitusAMC, a company that provides back-end services for top banks and lenders, disclosed on Saturday a data breach it had discovered earlier this month that impacted customer data. [...]
Shai-Hulud malware infects 500 npm packages, leaks secrets on GitHub
Hundreds of trojanized versions of well-known packages such as Zapier, ENS Domains, PostHog, and Postman have been planted in the npm registry in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign. [...]
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