Starting in December 2024, leading up to some of the busiest travel days, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a phishing campaign that impersonates online travel agency Booking.com and targets organizations in the hospitality industry. The campaign uses a social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver multiple credential-stealing malware in order to conduct financial fraud and theft. […]
This advisory describes an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel that achieves local privilege escalation on Ubuntu 22.04 for active user sessions.
Credit
An independent security researcher working with SSD Secure Disclosure.
Vendor Response
Ubuntu has released the following advisory and fix: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0927
Exploit Attempts for Cisco Smart Licensing Utility CVE-2024-20439 and CVE-2024-20440, Author: Johannes Ullrich
Cisco recently released an advisory for CVE-2024-20439 here. (nvd) Please note I did not discover this vulnerability, I just reverse engineered the vulnerability from the advisory
Two malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions were found deploying in-development ransomware from a remote server, exposing critical gaps in Microsoft's review process.
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information. The result: Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, backup and recovery software provider Veeam published a security advisory for a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23120. The vulnerability affects Backup & Replication systems that are domain joined. Veeam explicitly mentions that domain-joined backup servers are against security and compliance best practices, but in reality, we believe this is likely to be a relatively common configuration
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across the globe. This report includes an infrastructure analysis of Paragon’s spyware product, called Graphite; a forensic analysis of infected devices belonging to members of civil society; and a closer look at the use of Paragon spyware in both Canada and Italy.
An investigation into buying access to browsers through extensions
Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint.
Flashpoint data points to a surge in data breaches fueled by compromised credentials, ransomware and exploits
In iOS 18, Apple spun off its Keychain password management tool—previously only tucked away in Settings—into a standalone app called...
Strike 4.11 introduces a novel Sleepmask, a novel process injection technique, new out-of-the-box obfuscation options for Beacon, asynchronous BOFs, and a DNS over HTTPS (DoH) Beacon.
Facial Recognition Injection Attacks involve injecting tampered video feeds or deepfakes into facial recognition systems to bypass security. Current attack types include Virtual Video Injections, Hardware-based Video Injections, Device Emulation and Function Hooking.
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.
The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce
To clarify, multiple ransomware variants have been named Akira over the years, and several versions are currently circulating. The variant I encountered has been active from late 2023 to the present (the company was breached this year).
Tinyhack publishes a full how-to guide on brute-forcing past the Akira ransomware's encryption attack and freeing captive files.
On February 11, 2025, a Russian speaking actor using the Telegram handle @ExploitWhispers [1], leaked internal chat logs of Black Basta Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) members [2]. These communications, spanning from September 2023 to September 2024, provide an insider look on the group's operational tactics.
For the third time in as many months, Apple has released an emergency patch to fix an already exploited zero-day vulnerability impacting a wide range of its products.
The new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-24201, exists in Apple's WebKit open source browser engine for rendering Web pages in Safari and other apps across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. WebKit is a frequent target for attackers because of how deeply integrated it is with Apple's ecosystem.
Between late January and early March, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs identified a series of intrusions based on two Fortinet vulnerabilities. It began with the exploitation of Fortigate firewall appliances — culminating in the deployment of a newly discovered ransomware strain we have dubbed SuperBlack.
Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which remains open for new registrations and currently has around 100,000 domain names, is […]
