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Next time you need to activate a subscription on your TV, watch out for these fake sites scammers are using to trick you and steal your money.

The threat actors behind the Rhadamanthys information stealer have added new advanced features to the malware, including using artificial intelligence (AI) for optical character recognition (OCR) as part of what's called "Seed Phrase Image Recognition." "This allows Rhadamanthys to extract cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases from images, making it a highly potent threat for anyone dealing in

The Nitro PDF Pro application uses a .msi installer file (embedded into an executable .exe installer file) for installation. The MSI installer uses custom actions in repair mode in an unsafe way. Attackers with low-privileged system access to a Windows system where Nitro PDF Pro is installed, can exploit the cached MSI installer's custom actions to effectively escalate privileges and get a command prompt running in context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Versions prior to 14.26.1.0 and 13.70.8.82 and affected.

More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past year, indicating that it's being used by a large number of cybercriminals to conduct credential theft. "For prospective phishers, Sniper Dz offers an online admin panel with a catalog of phishing pages," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Shehroze Farooqi,

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook of London was arrested last week and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to securities fraud, wire fraud, and five counts of computer fraud. According to the court

Critics viewed the bill as seeking protections against nonrealistic "doomsday" fears, but most stakeholders agree that oversight is needed in the GenAI space.

Microsoft warns that ransomware group Storm-0501 has shifted from buying initial access to leveraging weak credentials to gain on-premises access before moving laterally to the cloud.

BlackBerry CylanceOPTICS versions prior to 3.3 MR2 and 3.2 MR5 suffer from an uninstall password bypass vulnerability.

A single command line can show you about 20,000 instances of CWE-73 issues with Microsoft Windows.

Hold onto your hats, folks, because the cybersecurity world is anything but quiet! Last week, we dodged a bullet when we discovered vulnerabilities in CUPS that could've opened the door to remote attacks. Google's switch to Rust is paying off big time, slashing memory-related vulnerabilities in Android. But it wasn't all good news – Kaspersky's forced exit from the US market left users with more