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Chennai, India, July 25th, 2025, CyberNewsWire xonPlus, a real-time digital risk alerting system, officially launches today to help security teams detect credential exposures before attackers exploit them. The platform detects data breaches and alerts teams and systems to respond instantly. Built by the team behind XposedOrNot, an open-source breach detection tool used by thousands, xonPlus […]

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Microsoft has issued urgent warnings about active exploitation of critical SharePoint vulnerabilities CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 by multiple threat actors, including the China-based group Storm-2603, which has been deploying Warlock ransomware in compromised environments.  The vulnerabilities affect on-premises SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition, with exploitation attempts observed as early as July 7, 2025. Key […]

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CastleLoader, a rapidly evolving loader discovered in 2025, has surged across underground networks by weaponizing Cloudflare-themed “Clickfix” phishing pages and doctored GitHub repositories to compromise Windows hosts. The malware masquerades as benign developer resources, browser updates, or meeting portals, luring unsuspecting users into copying a seemingly innocent PowerShell command that promises to “verify” or “repair” […]

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A sophisticated Russian-aligned threat actor known as Hive0156 has intensified its cyber espionage campaigns against Ukrainian government and military organizations, deploying the notorious Remcos Remote Access Trojan through carefully crafted social engineering attacks. The group has demonstrated remarkable persistence in targeting Ukraine’s defense infrastructure throughout 2025, utilizing weaponized Microsoft LNK files and PowerShell scripts as […]

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Spoofed Microsoft SharePoint notifications have been a familiar lure for corporate users, but a wave of campaigns traced between March and July 2025 shows a sharp uptick in both volume and sophistication. The operators register look-alike domains such as “sharepoint-online-docs-secure[.]co” and “files-share-portal-m365[.]io,” then embed them in convincing e-mails that pass SPF and DKIM checks, slipping […]

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A major win against cybercrime happened this week, as authorities from around the world teamed up to take down key websites run by the BlackSuit ransomware gang. If you visit the group’s data leak site or their negotiation portal now, you’ll only see a large notice stating that the site has been seized by law […]

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The Dropping Elephant advanced persistent threat group has launched a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors, particularly companies manufacturing precision-guided missile systems. This malicious operation represents a significant evolution in the group’s capabilities, employing a complex five-stage execution chain that cleverly disguises malicious payloads as legitimate conference invitations related to unmanned vehicle systems. The […]

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A malicious pull request slipped through Amazon’s review process and into version 1.84.0 of the Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code, briefly arming the popular AI assistant with instructions to wipe users’ local files and AWS resources. The rogue code discovered included a system prompt directing the agent to “restore the system to a […]

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Two high-severity vulnerabilities in TP-Link VIGI network video recorder (NVR) systems could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices.  The security flaws, identified as CVE-2025-7723 and CVE-2025-7724, impact the VIGI NVR1104H-4P V1 and VIGI NVR2016H-16MP V2 models, posing significant risks to surveillance infrastructure security. Key Takeaways1. Two serious vulnerabilities let attackers run commands […]

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A critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint servers has become a playground for threat actors across the cybercriminal spectrum, with attacks ranging from opportunistic hackers to sophisticated nation-state groups since mid-July 2025. On July 19, 2025, Microsoft confirmed that vulnerabilities collectively known as “ToolShell” were being actively exploited in the wild. The exploit chain comprises […]

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The newly revealed LAMEHUG campaign signals a watershed moment for cyber-def: Russian state-aligned APT28 has fused a large language model (LLM) directly into live malware, allowing each infected host to receive tailor-made shell commands on the fly. By invoking the Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model through Hugging Face’s public API, the attackers sidestep traditional static payload constraints and […]

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign where threat actors are exploiting Hangul Word Processor (.hwp) documents to distribute the notorious RokRAT malware. This marks a significant shift from the malware’s traditional distribution method through malicious shortcut (LNK) files, demonstrating the evolving tactics of advanced persistent threat groups. The attack campaign utilizes carefully crafted […]

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The pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) has orchestrated a massive distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting over 3,700 unique hosts across thirteen months, according to new research published on July 22, 2025. The group, which emerged in March 2022 shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has maintained an unprecedented operational tempo by launching attacks against an average […]

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CitrixBleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) erupted in 2025 when researchers uncovered an out-of-bounds read in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that lets an unauthenticated request siphon memory straight from the appliance. The flaw is triggered by a malformed POST sent to /p/u/doAuthentication.do, leaking session cookies, MFA tokens, and even plaintext passwords to anyone who asks—no exploit chain […]

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WhoFi surfaced last on the public repository ArXiv, stunning security teams with a proof-of-concept that turns ordinary 2.4 GHz routers into covert biometric scanners. Unlike camera-based systems, this neural pipeline fingerprints the unique way a body distorts Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI), letting an attacker identify someone from the opposite side of a plaster wall, […]

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Researchers have developed a new Metasploit exploit module targeting critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server that are being actively exploited in the wild.  The module, designated as pull request #20409 in the Metasploit Framework repository, addresses CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, which enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) attacks against vulnerable SharePoint installations. Key Takeaways1. SharePoint […]

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Threat researchers are warning of twin Chinese-nexus espionage operations—“Operation Chat” and “Operation PhantomPrayers”—that erupted in the weeks preceding the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, exploiting heightened traffic to Tibetan-themed websites to seed Windows hosts with sophisticated backdoors. By compromising a legitimate greeting page and quietly swapping its hyperlink, attackers funneled visitors to look-alike domains under niccenter[.]net, […]

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GitLab has released critical security patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities across its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) platforms, with versions 18.2.1, 18.1.3, and 18.0.5 now available for immediate deployment.  The release includes fixes for six distinct security vulnerabilities, including two high-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) issues that pose significant risks to Kubernetes proxy functionality.  Key […]

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Cybercriminals have evolved their social engineering tactics with a sophisticated malware campaign that exploits users’ trust in financial institutions. The latest threat involves a malicious LNK file masquerading as a credit card security email authentication popup, specifically targeting unsuspecting users through deceptive filename conventions like card_detail_20250610.html.lnk. This attack represents a concerning shift in malware distribution […]

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The brief lull following May’s multinational takedown of the Lumma Stealer infrastructure proved deceptive. Within weeks, telemetry again lit up with fresh command-and-control (C2) beacons, revealing that the information-stealing malware had swapped overt marketplace promotion for quieter channels while expanding its victim base. In its new incarnation, Lumma is most often packaged inside counterfeit installers […]

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