A self-contained AI system engineered for offensive cyber operations, Xanthorox AI, has surfaced on darknet forums and encrypted channels.
Introduced in late Q1 2025, it marks a shift in the threat landscape with its autonomous, modular structure designed to support large-scale, highly adaptive cyber-attacks.
Built entirely on private servers, Xanthorox avoids using public APIs or cloud services, significantly reducing its visibility and traceability.
A vulnerability impacting multiple ESET products has been exploited by an APT group to load malicious DLL libraries and silently deploy malware, Kaspersky reports.
The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-11859, is described as a DLL search order hijacking flaw that could be exploited by attackers with administrative privileges for arbitrary code execution.
A 20-year-old man believed to be a member of the cybercrime ring known as Scattered Spider has pleaded guilty to charges brought against him in Florida and California.
Noah Urban of Palm Coast, Florida, was arrested in January 2024 and charges against him were unsealed by US authorities in November 2024, when four others believed to be members of Scattered Spider were named.
The Russian hacking group known as Gamaredon, or “Shuckworm,” has been making headlines with its sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Western military missions. This group has evolved its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to enhance stealth and effectiveness, transitioning from Visual Basic Script (VBS) to PowerShell-based tools. PowerShell is a task automation framework from Microsoft, often used by attackers to execute commands and scripts on Windows systems. This shift, as reported by Symantec, highlights their strategic move to obfuscate, or hide, payloads and leverage legitimate services for evasion. Gamaredon’s recent campaigns have notably involved the use of malicious removable drives, targeting Western military missions in Ukraine with .LNK files that initiate infections upon execution. These developments underscore the group’s persistent threat to geopolitical entities, particularly those related to the Ukrainian military.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today notified Congress of a major information security incident, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act.
This finding is the result of internal and independent third-party reviews of OCC emails and email attachments that were subject to unauthorized access. On February 11, 2025, the OCC learned of unusual interactions between a system administrative account in its office automation environment and OCC user mailboxes. On February 12, the OCC confirmed the activity was unauthorized and immediately activated its incident response protocols which include initiating an independent third-party incident assessment and reporting the incident to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. On February 12, the OCC disabled the compromised administrative accounts and confirmed that the unauthorized access had been terminated. The OCC provided public notice of the incident on February 26.
Medical testing services provider Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) is notifying 1.6 million individuals that their personal information was stolen in an October 2024 data breach.
As part of the cyberattack, which was identified on October 27, a threat actor accessed LSC’s network and accessed and exfiltrated certain files containing patient and employee information.
The hackers who posted the documents on Telegram said the attack was in response to alleged Moroccan 'harassment' of Algeria on social media platforms, pledging additional cyberattacks if Algerian sites were targeted.
China admitted in a secret meeting with U.S. officials that it conducted Volt Typhoon cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, WSJ reports.
China reportedly admitted in a secret meeting with U.S. officials that it carried out cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, linked to the Volt Typhoon campaign.
German intelligence services have said they are investigating a suspected Russian cyberattack against a Berlin-based research network.
Algerian hackers leak sensitive data from Morocco's CNSS and Ministry of Employment. Tensions between Algeria and Morocco are spilling over into the realm of cyber warfare. The Algerian hacker group JabaRoot DZ has claimed responsibility for an unprecedented series of intrusions into the computer systems of several
Slopsquatting is a new supply chain threat where AI-assisted code generators recommend hallucinated packages that attackers register and weaponize.
Company didn’t notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.
AkiraBot uses OpenAI to generate custom outreach messages to spam chat widgets and website contact forms at scale.
In follow-up activity for Operation Endgame, law enforcement tracked down Smokeloader botnet's customers and detained at least five individuals.
On April 3, 2025, Ivanti published an advisory for CVE-2025-22457, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability due to a stack based buffer overflow.…
Targets of the cyberattacks include electronics and home appliances store Boulanger and the retailer Cultura.
In February 2025, the cybersecurity community witnessed an unprecedented leak that exposed the internal operations of Black Basta.
Malicious actors are using SourceForge to distribute a miner and the ClipBanker Trojan while utilizing unconventional persistence techniques.
Two spyware variants – Moonshine and BadBazaar – are being used to target the mobile devices of persons of interest to Chinese intelligence, including individuals in the Taiwanese, Tibetan and Uyghur communities.
A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.
The spoofing flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-30401, affects all versions of WhatsApp Desktop for Windows prior to 2.2450.6, and stems from a bug in how the app handles file attachments.
