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A major telecommunications company located in Asia was allegedly breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers who spent over four years inside its systems, according to a new report from incident response firm Sygnia. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity under the name Weaver Ant , describing the threat actor as stealthy and highly persistent. The name of the telecom provider was not disclosed. "Using web shells and tunneling, the attackers maintained persistence and facilitated cyber espionage," Sygnia said . "The group behind this intrusion [...] aimed to gain and maintain continuous access to telecommunication providers and facilitate cyber espionage by collecting sensitive information." Oren Biderman, Incident Response and Digital Forensic Team Leader at Sygnia, told The Hacker News that Weaver Ant exploited a misconfiguration in a public-facing application to obtain an initial foothold into the target environment. The attack chain is said to h...

Organizations now use an average of 112 SaaS applications —a number that keeps growing. In a 2024 study, 49% of 644 respondents who frequently used Microsoft 365 believed that they had less than 10 apps connected to the platform, despite the fact that aggregated data indicated over 1,000+ Microsoft 365 SaaS-to-SaaS connections on average per deployment. And that’s just one major SaaS provider. Imagine other unforeseen critical security risks: Each SaaS app has unique security configurations —making misconfigurations a top risk. Business-critical apps (CRM, finance, and collaboration tools) store vast amounts of sensitive data, making them prime targets for attackers. Shadow IT and third-party integrations introduce hidden vulnerabilities that often go unnoticed. Large and small third-party AI service providers (e.g. audio/video transcription service) may not comply with legal and regulatory requirements, or properly test and review code. Major SaaS providers also have thous...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an Android malware campaign that leverages Microsoft's .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) framework to create bogus banking and social media apps targeting Indian and Chinese-speaking users. "These threats disguise themselves as legitimate apps, targeting users to steal sensitive information," McAfee Labs researcher Dexter Shin said . .NET MAUI is Microsoft's cross-platform desktop and mobile app framework for creating native applications using C# and XAML. It represents an evolution of Xamarin, with added capabilities to not only create multi-platform apps using a single project, but also incorporate platform-specific source code as and when necessary. It's worth noting that official support for Xamarin ended on May 1, 2024 , with the tech giant urging developers to migrate to .NET MAUI. While Android malware implemented using Xamarin has been detected in the past , the latest development signals that ...

Law enforcement authorities in seven African countries have arrested 306 suspects and confiscated 1,842 devices as part of an international operation codenamed Red Card that took place between November 2024 and February 2025. The coordinated effort "aims to disrupt and dismantle cross-border criminal networks which cause significant harm to individuals and businesses," INTERPOL said , adding it focused on targeted mobile banking, investment, and messaging app scams. The cyber-enabled scams involved more than 5,000 victims. The countries that participated in the operation include Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, and Zambia. "The success of Operation Red Card demonstrates the power of international cooperation in combating cybercrime, which knows no borders and can have devastating effects on individuals and communities," Neal Jetton, INTERPOL's Director of the Cybercrime Directorate, said. "The recovery of significant asse...

A set of five critical security shortcomings have been disclosed in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution, putting over 6,500 clusters at immediate risk by exposing the component to the public internet. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514, CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, and CVE-2025-1974 ), assigned a CVSS score of 9.8, have been collectively codenamed IngressNightmare by cloud security firm Wiz. It's worth noting that the shortcomings do not impact NGINX Ingress Controller , which is another ingress controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus. "Exploitation of these vulnerabilities leads to unauthorized access to all secrets stored across all namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster by attackers, which can result in cluster takeover," the company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. IngressNightmare, at its core, affects the admission controller component of the Ingress N...