Cybersecurity Articles

149/68 Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Cybersecurity firm HUMAN, a leader in bot detection and ad fraud prevention, has uncovered “Scallywag,” a large-scale ad fraud operation embedded within WordPress plugins. The scheme leverages piracy websites and URL shortening services to generate fraudulent traffic. The group utilized four WordPress plugins—Soralink, Yu Idea, WPSafeLink, and Droplink—developed between 2016 […]

148/68 Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Researchers from Arctic Wolf have issued a warning about an ongoing cyberattack campaign targeting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) devices. The attacks, active since January 2025, exploit CVE-2021-20035, a known OS command injection vulnerability in the SMA100 management interface. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary system commands […]

147/68 Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Security researchers from Zscaler have revealed that Mustang Panda, a sophisticated APT group linked to the Chinese government (also known as Bronze President, Stately Taurus, TA416), has expanded its cyber arsenal with four new attack tools. These include two keyloggers, a lateral movement tool, and an EDR evasion driver. The […]

146/68 Monday, April 21, 2025 ASUS has issued a security advisory regarding a critical vulnerability in its routers that have the AiCloud feature enabled, tracked as CVE-2025-2492 with a CVSS severity score of 9.2. The flaw stems from improper authentication control, potentially allowing unauthorized remote attackers to take control of the router’s functions. To mitigate […]

145/68 Monday, April 21, 2025 Cybersecurity firm Cleafy has uncovered a new threat dubbed “SuperCard X”, a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) tool targeting Android devices through NFC relay attacks. The malware is designed to steal credit card data and use it for fraudulent transactions at ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) terminals. The campaign has ties to Chinese-speaking threat […]

144/68 Friday, April 18, 2025 Researchers at Doctor Web have uncovered that several low-cost Android smartphones from China come preloaded with malware during the manufacturing process. The malicious apps include trojanized versions of WhatsApp and Telegram, which are embedded with crypto clipper malware. This malware monitors the clipboard and automatically replaces copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses […]

143/68 Friday, April 18, 2025 Apple has released an emergency security update to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities found in targeted attacks against iPhones. The company confirmed the attacks were highly sophisticated and urged users to update their devices immediately. The first vulnerability, CVE-2025-31200, resides in CoreAudio, where specially crafted media files could allow […]

142/68 Thursday, April 17, 2025 A critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-24859, has been disclosed in Apache Roller, a popular Java-based open-source blogging server. The flaw, which affects versions ≤6.1.4, has been assigned the maximum CVSS score of 10.0, indicating its severity. The vulnerability stems from unsafe session management, allowing authenticated sessions to remain active even after […]

141/68 Thursday, April 17, 2025 Cybersecurity researchers at CloudSEK have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign involving a fake version of the legitimate site PDFCandy[.]com, designed to trick users into downloading ArechClient2, an info-stealing malware from the SectopRAT family active since 2019. The campaign relies on malicious Google Ads and fake software update prompts to distribute […]

140/68 Friday, April 11, 2025 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an agency under the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has confirmed a serious email security breach that remained undetected for over a year. The incident involved unauthorized access to more than 103 staff email accounts through a compromised administrator account, which […]