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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that's designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot . "PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems, including information theft, keylogging, reconnaissance, and the establishment of persistent system access," Cisco Talos researchers Edmund Brumaghin and Jordyn Dunk said . "PS1Bot has been designed with stealth in mind, minimizing persistent artifacts left on infected systems and incorporating in-memory execution techniques to facilitate execution of follow-on modules without requiring them to be written to disk." Campaigns distributing the PowerShell and C# malware have been found to be active since early 2025, leveraging malvertising as a propagation vector, with the infection chains executing modules in-memory to minimize forensic trail. PS1Bot is assessed to share ...

Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution.  The vulnerability impacting Zoom Clients for Windows, tracked as CVE-2025-49457 (CVSS score: 9.6), relates to a case of an untrusted search path that could pave the way for privilege escalation. "Untrusted search path in certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via network access," Zoom said in a security bulletin on Tuesday. The issue, reported by its own Offensive Security team, affects the following products - Zoom Workplace for Windows before version 6.3.10 Zoom Workplace VDI for Windows before version 6.3.10 (except 6.1.16 and 6.2.12) Zoom Rooms for Windows before version 6.3.10 Zoom Rooms Controller for Windows before version 6.3.10 Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows before version 6.3.10 The disclosure comes as multiple vulnerabiliti...

Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in FortiSIEM for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25256 , carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiSIEM may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via crafted CLI requests," the company said in a Tuesday advisory. The following versions are impacted by the flaw - FortiSIEM 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 (Migrate to a fixed release) FortiSIEM 6.7.0 through 6.7.9 (Upgrade to 6.7.10 or above) FortiSIEM 7.0.0 through 7.0.3 (Upgrade to 7.0.4 or above) FortiSIEM 7.1.0 through 7.1.7 (Upgrade to 7.1.8 or above) FortiSIEM 7.2.0 through 7.2.5 (Upgrade to 7.2.6 or above) FortiSIEM 7.3.0 through 7.3.1 (Upgrade to 7.3.2 or above) FortiSIEM 7.4 (Not affected) Fortinet acknowledged i...

Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is repetitive, time-consuming, and high-stakes, leaving SOCs under constant pressure to keep up, yet often struggling to stay ahead of emerging threats. That combination of inefficiency, elevated risk, and a reactive operating model is exactly where AI-powered SOC capabilities are starting to make a difference. Why AI SOC is gaining traction now The recent Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations 2025 (download a complimentary copy ) recognizes AI SOC Agents as an innovation trigger, reflecting a broader shift in how teams approach automation. Instead of relying solely on static playbooks or manual investigation workflows, AI SOC capabilities bring reasoning, adaptability, and context-aware decision-making into the mix. SOC teams r...

The AI revolution isn't coming. It's already here. From copilots that write our emails to autonomous agents that can take action without us lifting a finger, AI is transforming how we work. But here's the uncomfortable truth: Attackers are evolving just as fast. Every leap forward in AI gives bad actors new tools — deepfake scams so real they trick your CFO, bots that can bypass human review, and synthetic identities that slip quietly into your systems. The fight is no longer at your network's edge. It's at your login screen. And that's why identity has become the last line of defense . Why This Matters Now Legacy security can't keep up. Traditional models were built for slower threats and predictable patterns. AI doesn't play by those rules. Today's attackers: Scale at machine speed. Use deepfakes to impersonate trusted people. Exploit APIs through autonomous agents. Create fake "non-human" identities that look perfectly legitimate. The only security control that can ada...

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for a massive set of 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including one flaw that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of the release. Of the 111 vulnerabilities, 16 are rated Critical, 92 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. Forty-four of the vulnerabilities relate to privilege escalation, followed by remote code execution (35), information disclosure (18), spoofing (8), and denial-of-service (4) defects. This is in addition to 16 vulnerabilities addressed in Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser since the release of last month's Patch Tuesday update , including two spoofing bugs affecting Edge for Android. Included among the vulnerabilities is a privilege escalation vulnerability impacting Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid deployments ( CVE-2025-53786 , CVSS score: 8.0) that Microsoft disclosed last week. The publicly disclosed zero-day is CVE-2025-53779 (CVS...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East's public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Micro, exhibited tactics mirroring those of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, such as DLL side-loading, process injection, and the ability to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) software. The DLL side-loading techniques resemble those previously documented as part of attacks orchestrated by a China-linked hacking group called Earth Baxia , which was flagged by the cybersecurity company as targeting government entities in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver a backdoor known as EAGLEDOOR following the exploitation of a now-patched security flaw affecting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools. "The attack chain leveraged a legitimate browser-related file, Edge.exe (originally named cookie_exporter.exe), to sideload a...

New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images have been built on top of these infected base images, effectively propagating the infection further in a transitive manner, Binarly REsearch said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The firmware security company said it discovered a total of 35 images that ship with the backdoor. The incident once again highlights the risks faced by the software supply chain. Binarly's Alex Matrosov told the publication that the investigation was prompted after it detected malicious code in one of their customer's environments, ultimately finding that the images had been pulled from Docker Hub. The XZ Utils supply chain event (CVE-2024-3094, CVSS score: 10.0) came to light in late March 2024, when Andres Freund sounded the alarm on a backdoor embedded within XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5...

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "significant spike" in brute-force traffic aimed at Fortinet SSL VPN devices. The coordinated activity, per threat intelligence firm GreyNoise, was observed on August 3, 2025, with over 780 unique IP addresses participating in the effort. As many as 56 unique IP addresses have been detected over the past 24 hours. All the IP addresses have been classified as malicious, with the IPs originating from the United States, Canada, Russia, and the Netherlands. Targets of the brute-force activity include the United States, Hong Kong, Brazil, Spain, and Japan. "Critically, the observed traffic was also targeting our FortiOS profile, suggesting deliberate and precise targeting of Fortinet's SSL VPNs," GreyNoise said . "This was not opportunistic -- it was focused activity." The company also pointed out that it identified two distinct assault waves spotted before and after August 5: One, a long-running, brute-force a...

An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand in hand, new findings show. "This latest wave of ShinyHunters-attributed attacks reveals a dramatic shift in tactics, moving beyond the group's previous credential theft and database exploitation," ReliaQuest said in a report shared with The Hacker News. These include the use of adoption of tactics that mirror those of Scattered Spider , such as highly-targeted vishing (aka voice phishing ) and social engineering attacks, leveraging apps that masquerade as legitimate tools, employing Okta-themed phishing pages to trick victims into entering credentials during vishing, and VPN obfuscation for data exfiltration. ShinyHunters , which first emerged in 2020, is a financially motivated threat group that has orchestrated a series of data breaches targeting major...

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks. "They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers -- the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a Windows network," Bitdefender said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Additionally, they attempted to dump LSASS memory from specific systems to recover active user credentials, potentially plain-text passwords, from machines where users were logged on." The activity, tracked by the Romanian cybersecurity company since mid-2024, has singled out judicial and government bodies in Georgia, as well as an energy distribution company in Moldova. "Regarding the timeline, while we have been tracking the campaign since mid-2024, our analysis of the artifacts indicates that activity began e...

Most security tools can't see what happens inside the browser, but that's where the majority of work, and risk, now lives. Security leaders deciding how to close that gap often face a choice: deploy a dedicated Enterprise Browser or add an enterprise-grade control layer to the browsers employees already use and trust. The Ultimate Battle: Enterprise Browsers vs. Enterprise Browser Extensions examines this choice across nine "rounds": adoption, data protection, BYOD, productivity, management overhead, remote access, Zero Trust alignment, supply-chain security, and future-readiness, to show where each approach excels, and where trade-offs emerge. Each round uses practical, enterprise scenarios to compare the two models, making it easier to see not just what they can do, but how they perform at scale. The Browser Is Now the Workspace The browser has become the primary workspace for enterprise users. It is where sensitive data is created, accessed, and moved through copy/paste action...