Everest ransomware group has published a claim saying it breached Iberia, Iberia is Spain’s flag-carrier airline and extracted a 596 GB database along with 430 GB of booking-related mail files. The group states that the data covers millions of customers in multiple countries. As seen by Hackread.com on the group’s dark web leak site, the description claims the stolen data includes full identity d

Every day, this blog is automatically echoed on my Linkedin channel. Over the last few years, the traffic to those posts on Linkedin is down more than 90%. Understandable. Platforms evolve, people shift their patterns and interests. I recently did a manual post on Linkedin, though, and was amazed to discover that within minutes, it had 10 times as much traffic as a typical post does. I did anothe

Scam calls are getting smarter, more convincing and harder to spot. In February 2025 alone, U.S. consumers received around 4.5 billion robocalls . Many of them use neighbor spoofing to mimic local area codes or even real company numbers, making them seem trustworthy at first glance. Learn which scam phone numbers to block, the red flags to watch for and step-by-step actions if you’ve been targete

AI security firm AISLE recently discovered a serious vulnerability in the Firefox web browser that went unnoticed for six months. This flaw could have let attackers run their own instructions on a user’s computer, potentially putting over 180 million users at risk. The Cause: A Tiny Coding Error The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-13016 , was a subtle coding mistake that existed in a key part of Firefo

?Dartmouth College has disclosed a data breach after the Clop extortion gang leaked data allegedly stolen from the school’s Oracle E-Business Suite servers on its dark web leak site. The private Ivy League research university, founded in 1769, has an endowment of $9 billion as of June 30, 2025, over 40 academic departments and programs, and more than 4,000 undergraduate students, with a 7:1 under

? Nov 25, 2025 ? Ravie Lakshmanan Spyware / Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications. “These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware and

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2025 SitusAMC says a recent breach exposed customer data; the real-estate financing firm provides back-office services for banks and lenders. SitusAMC , a leading real-estate financing services provider for banks and lenders, disclosed a data breach discovered earlier this month that exposed customer information. The firm manages back-office functions such as mort

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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security update. “Campaign leverages fake adult websites (xHamster, PornHub clones) as its phishing mechanism, likely distributed via malvertising,” Acronis said in a

The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed TCSectorCopy. “This attack allows them to obtain tokens for the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using the user’s browser, which can be used outside the perimeter of the compromised infrastructure to access

2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns. The Storm on the Horizon Global world instability, coupled with rapid technological advancement, will force security teams to adapt not just their

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that has leveraged Blender Foundation files to deliver an information stealer known as StealC V2. “This ongoing operation, active for at least six months, involves implanting malicious .blend files on platforms like CGTrader,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “Users unknowingly

Struggling to understand what agentic AI actually means? Wondering how to cut through the hype and start implementing agentic AI that truly works for your business? In this article, you’ll discover a practical framework for understanding and implementing agentic AI, from simple prompting techniques to fully autonomous systems. Why Agentic AI Matters for Modern Marketers […] The post appeared fir

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SitusAMC, a company that provides back-end services for top banks and lenders, disclosed on Saturday a data breach it had discovered earlier this month that impacted customer data. As a real-estate (commercial and residential) financing firm, SitusAMC handles back-office operations in areas like mortgage origination, servicing, and compliance for banks and investors. The company generates around

TL;DR AI in cybersecurity delivers real gains in alert triage and detection when deployed with human oversight. But separating vendor hype from battlefield reality requires looking at what’s actually working in 2025 and beyond. Introduction Security leaders today stand on a fault line: AI is both a guardian and a weapon. Vendors promise “autonomous SOCs” that slash detection times, while attacker

X (formerly known as Twitter) has added a new location detail in its account transparency section. It shows where an account is based and which app store region it is linked to. Some users call this a privacy risk and a problem for whistleblowers, but the idea itself is not new. Instagram has shown similar account details for years. Facebook also gives page location details in its transparency ta

A new operation embedding StealC V2 inside Blender project files has been observed targeting victims for at least six months. According to a new advisory by Morphisec, the attackers placed manipulated .blend files on platforms such as CGTrader, where users downloaded them as routine 3D assets. When opened with Blender’s Auto Run feature enabled, the files executed concealed Python scripts that la

Harvard University disclosed over the weekend that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems were compromised in a voice phishing attack, exposing the personal information of students, alumni, donors, staff, and faculty members. The exposed data includes email addresses, telephone numbers, home and business addresses, event attendance records, donation details, and “biographical information pert

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2025 Delta Dental of Virginia suffered a data breach that exposed personal and health data of about 146,000 customers after the hack of an email account. A security breach at the dental care provider Delta Dental of Virginia (DDVA) exposed data of about 146,000 people, including names, Social Security numbers, ID numbers, and health information, after an email acc

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures. The security defects “allow attackers to bypass authentication, perform path traversal, achieve remote code execution, cause denial-of-service conditions, and manipulate tags,” Oligo Security said in

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Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that’s reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. The new supply chain campaign, dubbed Sha1-Hulud, has compromised hundreds of npm packages, according to reports from Aikido, HelixGuard, JFrog, Koi Security, ReversingLabs, SafeDep, Socket, Step Security, and Wiz. The trojanized

This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates. Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast — stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing live flaws. Reports also showed how fast fake news, AI

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A swift response from security researchers recently stopped a harmful software attack targeting the popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace. A malicious extension, designed to look like Prettier – Code formatter , a legitimate and well-known coding tool, was quickly found and removed, stopping a potentially widespread security incident before it could cause damage. Quick Action Prevents M

You might believe that your eCommerce business is not big enough to be on the radar of cybercriminals, but think again. According to experts, over 43% of cyberattacks targeted small and medium-sized businesses and online shops were among the hardest hit. The modern-day digital storefront is not just a website; it’s your reputation, your brand, and your bottom line. At Diginyze, we’re familiar wit

Cybersecurity experts at Certo Software have discovered a new Android spyware called RadzaRat. This malware is a Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) that gives criminals full remote control over a device, and alarmingly, it is currently completely undetectable to all major anti-virus programs . This important finding was shared with Hackread.com, highlighting a serious new risk for users. The File Manag

New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it

? Nov 24, 2025 ? Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Vulnerability A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. “The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287 for initial access,” AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said in a report published last

Of course, a book with a title like this gives us pause–when we think of marketers, we don’t ordinarily think about Jerry, Phil, Bobby and the rest of the crew. But that’s one reason why the insights are so profound. Marketing isn’t hype or hustle or scamming. It’s not spam or manipulation either. We already have words for those things. Marketing is the generous act of showing up with a true stor

A vulnerability has been found in the very popular, free file-compressing tool 7-Zip. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-11001 , has a public exploit, leading to a high-risk warning from the UK’s NHS England Digital. While the NHS confirmed active exploitation has not been observed in the wild, the public PoC means the risk of future attacks is extremely high. The vulnerability was discovered by Ryota

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Written by Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, Ben Folland, Harlan Carvey of Huntress Labs. A big part of a security analyst’s everyday role is figuring out what actually happened during an incident. We can do that by piecing together breadcrumbs–whether that’s through logs, antivirus detections, and other clues–that help us understand how the attacker achieved initial access and what they did after. Howeve

Cox Enterprises is notifying impacted individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal data to hackers who breached the company network after exploiting a zero-day flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite. The compromise occurred in August, but the company didn’t detect the intrusion until late September, when it launched its internal investigation. “On September 29, 2025, we became aware of suspi

? Nov 22, 2025 ? Ravie Lakshmanan Cyber Espionage / Cloud Security The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT31 has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting the Russian information technology (IT) sector between 2024 and 2025 while staying undetected for extended periods of time. “In the period from 2024 to 2025, the Russian IT sector, especially companies working as c

Nvidia has confirmed that last month’s security updates are causing gaming performance issues on Windows 11 24H2 and Windows 11 25H2 systems. To address these problems, the American technology company released the GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 581.94. “Lower performance may be observed in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 [5561605],” Nvidia said in a support d

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Bad actors are leveraging browser notifications as a vector for phishing attacks to distribute malicious links by means of a new command-and-control (C2) platform called Matrix Push C2. “This browser-native, fileless framework leverages push notifications, fake alerts, and link redirects to target victims across operating systems,” Blackfog researcher Brenda Robb said in a Thursday report. In

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw impacting Oracle Identity Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-61757 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of missing authentication for a critical function that can result in pre-authenticated

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rolled back a previous ruling that required U.S. telecom carriers to implement stricter cybersecurity measures following the massive hack from the Chinese threat group known as Salt Typhoon. The ruling came in January 2025 and took effect immediately under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), in response to Salt Typhoon’s b

American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors. However, the company noted that its systems were not breached as a result of this incident and that customers’ data was not compromised. “We identified and terminated a suspicious insider last month following an internal investigation that determined he sh

Perhaps you’ve heard that Taylor Swift recently released a new album, The Life of a Showgirl. Not only did the full-length smash sales records, but it also spawned endless musical analysis (Who exactly is “Father Figure” about?) and viral moments (Is the mystery of the orange door actually solved?). Of course, Swift’s marketing savvy is as impressive as her musical talent . The album rollout also

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, highly dangerous Android banking malware called Sturnus, named after the common starling or ‘songbird’ because of its complex and ‘chaotic’ communication style. The Dutch cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric identified this privately-operated threat, which has features that are simply far more advanced and dangerous than what we’ve seen before. Accordin

Salesforce , a renowned customer relationship management (CRM) platform, has confirmed it is dealing with a significant security incident. The company announced late Wednesday that some of its customers’ data was likely accessed by an outside party through an issue involving apps published by Gainsight, a company that provides customer success software. “Our investigation indicates this activity

In a surprise move, Google on Thursday announced that it has updated Quick Share, its peer-to-peer file transfer service, to work with Apple’s equipment AirDrop, allowing users to more easily share files and photos between Android and iPhone devices. The cross-platform sharing feature is currently limited to the Pixel 10 lineup and works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, with plans to expand

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There’s nothing more discouraging for an online store owner than watching shoppers add items to their cart…only to disappear before checkout. If that sounds familiar, you’re definitely not alone. Around 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned, which means a lot of potential sales are being left on the table. The good news is that abandoned carts aren’t the end of the story. With the right reco

Ever wonder how some IT teams keep corporate data safe without slowing down employees? Of course you have. Mobile devices are essential for modern work—but with mobility comes risk. IT admins, like you, juggle protecting sensitive data while keeping teams productive. That’s why more enterprises are turning to Samsung for mobile security. Hey—you’re busy, so here’s a quick-read article on what

A China-nexus threat actor known as APT24 has been observed using a previously undocumented malware dubbed BADAUDIO to establish persistent remote access to compromised networks as part