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The threat actor known as Lotus Panda has been observed targeting government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and media sectors in the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with updated versions of a known backdoor called Sagerunex . "Lotus Blossom has been using the Sagerunex backdoor since at least 2016 and is increasingly employing long-term persistence command shells and developing new variants of the Sagerunex malware suite," Cisco Talos researcher Joey Chen said in an analysis published last week. Lotus Panda, also known as Billbug, Bronze Elgin, Lotus Blossom, Spring Dragon, and Thrip, is a suspected Chinese hacking crew that's active since at least 2009. The threat actor was first exposed by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 in June 2015 and later by Broadcom-owned Symantec three years later. In late 2022, Symantec detailed the threat actor's attack on a digital certificate authority as well as government and defense agencies located in different c...

The rapid adoption of cloud services, SaaS applications, and the shift to remote work have fundamentally reshaped how enterprises operate. These technological advances have created a world of opportunity but also brought about complexities that pose significant security threats. At the core of these vulnerabilities lies Identity —the gateway to enterprise security and the number one attack vector for bad actors. Explore the importance of modernizing Identity strategies and the benefits of centralizing Identity within your security ecosystem to safeguard your organization from costly breaches while enhancing operational efficiency. The rise of fragmented tech stacks Gone are the days when enterprises relied on a single solution tied to a comprehensive license agreement. Businesses today prioritize agility and performance, opting for “best-in-breed” solutions that patch together fragmented tech ecosystems. While these advanced tech stacks provide flexibility, they also create signif...

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of an ongoing malicious campaign targeting the Go ecosystem with typosquatted modules that are designed to deploy loader malware on Linux and Apple macOS systems. "The threat actor has published at least seven packages impersonating widely used Go libraries, including one (github[.]com/shallowmulti/hypert) that appears to target financial-sector developers," Socket researcher Kirill Boychenko said in a new report. "These packages share repeated malicious filenames and consistent obfuscation techniques, suggesting a coordinated threat actor capable of pivoting rapidly." While all of them continue to be available on the official package repository, their corresponding GitHub repositories barring "github[.]com/ornatedoctrin/layout" are no longer accessible. The list of offending Go packages is below - shallowmulti/hypert (github.com/shallowmulti/hypert) shadowybulk/hypert (github.com/shadowybulk/hypert) belate...

Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously associated with Black Basta may have transitioned to CACTUS. "Once infiltrated, it grants attackers a wide range of remote control capabilities, allowing them to execute commands on the infected machine," Trend Micro said in a Monday analysis. "This enables them to steal sensitive data, such as login credentials, financial information, and personal files." It's worth noting that details of the BC module, which the cybersecurity company is tracking as QBACKCONNECT owing to overlaps with the QakBot loader, was first documented in late January 2025 by both Walmart's Cyber Intelligence team and Sophos, the latter of which has designated the cluster the name STAC5777.  Over the past year, Black Basta attack chains have increasingly leve...

Broadcom has released security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2025-22224 (CVSS score: 9.3) - A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write, which a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine could exploit to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host CVE-2025-22225 (CVSS score: 8.2) - An arbitrary write vulnerability that a malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process could exploit to result in a sandbox escape CVE-2025-22226 (CVSS score: 7.1) - An information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS that a malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine could exploit to leak memory from the VMX process The shortcomings impact the below ...