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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that's used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices. The hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket , is developed by a Chinese company named SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd. , which was formerly known as Meiya Pico. It specializes in the research, development, and sale of electronic data forensics and network information security technology products. According to a report published by Lookout, Massistant works in conjunction with a corresponding desktop software, allowing for access to the device's GPS location data, SMS messages, images, audio, contacts, and phone services. "Meiya Pico maintains partnerships with domestic and international law enforcement partners, both as a surveillance hardware and software provider, as well as through training programs for law enforcement personnel," security resear...

Multiple sectors in China, Hong Kong, and Pakistan have become the target of a threat activity cluster tracked as UNG0002 (aka Unknown Group 0002) as part of a broader cyber espionage campaign. "This threat entity demonstrates a strong preference for using shortcut files (LNK), VBScript, and post-exploitation tools such as Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, while consistently deploying CV-themed decoy documents to lure victims," Seqrite Labs researcher Subhajeet Singha said in a report published this week. The activity encompasses two major campaigns, one called Operation Cobalt Whisper which took place between May and September 2024, and Operation AmberMist that occurred between January and May 2025. Targets of these campaigns include defense, electrotechnical engineering, energy, civil aviation, academia, medical institutions, cybersecurity, gaming, and software development sectors. Operation Cobalt Whisper was first documented by Seqrite Labs in late October 2024, detai...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware called MDifyLoader that has been observed in conjunction with cyber attacks exploiting security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances. According to a report published by JPCERT/CC today, the threat actors behind the exploitation of CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-22457 in intrusions observed between December 2024 and July 2025 have weaponized the vulnerabilities to drop MDifyLoader, which is then used to launch Cobalt Strike in memory. CVE-2025-0282 is a critical security flaw in ICS that could permit unauthenticated remote code execution. It was addressed by Ivanti in early January 2025. CVE-2025-22457, patched in February 2025, concerns a stack-based buffer overflow that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Previous findings from JPCERT/CC have revealed that CVE-2025-0282, which was weaponized in the wild as a zero-day beginning mid-December 2024, has been leveraged to deliver malware families like...

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a phishing campaign that's designed to deliver a malware codenamed LAMEHUG . "An obvious feature of LAMEHUG is the use of LLM (large language model), used to generate commands based on their textual representation (description)," CERT-UA said in a Thursday advisory. The activity has been attributed with medium confidence to a Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 , which is also known as Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, Sednit, Sofacy, and UAC-0001. The cybersecurity agency said it found the malware after receiving reports on July 10, 2025, about suspicious emails sent from compromised accounts and impersonating ministry officials. The emails targeted executive government authorities. Present within these emails was a ZIP archive that, in turn, contained the LAMEHUG payload in the form of three different variants named "Додаток.pif, "AI_generator_uncensored_Can...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical container escape vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that could pose a severe threat to managed AI cloud services. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-23266, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been codenamed NVIDIAScape by Google-owned cloud security company Wiz. "NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in some hooks used to initialize the container, where an attacker could execute arbitrary code with elevated permissions," NVIDIA said in an advisory for the bug. "A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, data tampering, information disclosure, and denial-of-service." The shortcoming impacts all versions of NVIDIA Container Toolkit up to and including 1.17.7 and NVIDIA GPU Operator up to and including 25.3.0. It has been addressed by the GPU maker in versions 1.17.8 and 25.3.1, respectively. The NVIDIA Container...