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Elusive Comet Attack: Hackers Use Zoom Remote-Control to Steal Crypto

Hackers in the Elusive Comet campaign exploit Zoom’s remote-control feature to steal cryptocurrency, and over $100K lost in…

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DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows it is remarkably similar to a program published in January 2025 by Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE employee who has worked at a number of Musk's companies.

DPRK Hackers Steal $137M from TRON Users in Single-Day Phishing Attack

Multiple threat activity clusters with ties to North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) have been linked to attacks targeting organizations and individuals in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space. "The focus on Web3 and cryptocurrency appears to be primarily financially motivated due to the heavy sanctions that have been placed on North Korea," Google-owned Mandiant said in

Iran-Linked Hackers Target Israel with MURKYTOUR Malware via Fake Job Campaign

The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with Iran that engages in cyber espionage-related operations. The intrusion set is said to have distributed the malware through a "complex

Introducing ToyMaker, an Initial Access Broker working in cahoots with double extortion gangs

Cisco Talos discovered a sophisticated attack on critical infrastructure by ToyMaker and Cactus, using the LAGTOY backdoor to orchestrate a relentless double extortion scheme.

Google Drops Cookie Prompt in Chrome, Adds IP Protection to Incognito

Google on Tuesday revealed that it will no longer offer a standalone prompt for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative. "We've made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and will not be rolling out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies," Anthony Chavez, vice president of Privacy

Fake Alpine Quest Mapping App Spotted Spying on Russian Military

Fake Alpine Quest app laced with spyware was used to target Russian military Android devices, stealing location data,…

SSL.com Vulnerability Allowed Fraudulent SSL Certificates for Major Domains

An SSL.com vulnerability allowed attackers to issue valid SSL certificates for major domains by exploiting a bug in…

GCP Cloud Composer Bug Let Attackers Elevate Access via Malicious PyPI Packages

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patched vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that could have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges in the Cloud Composer workflow orchestration service that's based on Apache Airflow. "This vulnerability lets attackers with edit permissions in Cloud Composer to escalate their access to the default Cloud Build service account, which

All Gmail users at risk from clever replay attack

All Google accounts could end up compromised by a clever replay attack on Gmail users that abuses Google infrastructure.