Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in…
Ravie LakshmananOct 01, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload…
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed…
Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta’s Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app,…
Ravie LakshmananSep 21, 2026Endpoint Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised…
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Malware / Cyber Espionage The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks…
The Iran-linked «hacktivist» persona known as Handala Hack has been attributed to a Telegram-based surveillance backdoor called HEAVYGRAM and a Delphi-based utility known as CRUDEEXCLUDE. «HEAVYGRAM offers builtin commands supporting…
Ravie LakshmananSep 17, 2026Malware / Cyber Espionage The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries…
Swati KhandelwalSep 14, 2026Network Security / Cyber Attack An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand’s largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines…
adminA China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims’…
