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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware called KadNap that's primarily targeting Asus routers to enlist them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic. The malware, first detected in the wild in August 2025, has expanded to over 14,000 infected devices, with more than 60% of victims located in the U.S., according to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen. A lesser number of infections have been detected in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, the U.K., Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, and Spain. "KadNap employs a custom version of the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table ( DHT ) protocol, which is used to conceal the IP address of their infrastructure within a peer-to-peer system to evade traditional network monitoring," the cybersecurity company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Compromised nodes in the network leverage the DHT protocol to locate and connect with a command-and-control (C2) server, thereby making it resilient to detection and disrupt...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims' databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations' Google Cloud environments. The shortcomings have been collectively named LeakyLooker by Tenable. There is no evidence that the vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild. Following responsible disclosure in June 2025, the issues have been addressed by Google. The list of security flaws is as follows - Cross Tenant Unauthorized Access - Zero-Click SQL Injection on Database Connectors Cross Tenant Unauthorized Access - Zero-Click SQL Injection Through Stored Credentials Cross Tenant SQL Injection on BigQuery Through Native Functions Cross-Tenant Data Sources Leak With Hyperlinks Cross Tenant SQL injection on Spanner and BigQuery Through Custom Queries on a Victim’s Data Source Cross Tenant SQL Injection on BigQuery and Spanner Through...

You can't control when the next critical vulnerability drops. You can control how much of your environment is exposed when it does. The problem is that most teams have more internet-facing exposure than they realise. Intruder's Head of Security digs into why this happens and how teams can manage it deliberately. Time-to-exploit is shrinking The larger and less controlled your attack surface is, the more opportunities exist for exploitation. And the window to act on them is shrinking fast. For the most serious vulnerabilities, disclosure to exploitation can be as short as 24 to 48 hours. Zero Day Clock projects that time-to-exploit will be just minutes by 2028. That's not a lot of time when you consider what has to happen before a patch is deployed: running scans, waiting for results, raising tickets, agreeing priorities, implementing applies to ’the fix’ too, happy to drop ‘verifying’ if that’s easier. If disclosure lands out of hours, it takes even longer. In many c...

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been observed using a pair of implants dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT to facilitate long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel. The two malware families have been put to use since April 2024, ESET said in a new report shared with The Hacker News. APT28, also tracked as Blue Athena, BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Fighting Ursa, Forest Blizzard (formerly Strontium), FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and TA422, is a nation-state actor affiliated with Unit 26165 of the Russian Federation's military intelligence agency GRU. The threat actor's malware arsenal consists of tools like BEARDSHELL and COVENANT, along with another program codenamed SLIMAGENT that's capable of logging keystrokes, capturing screenshots, and collecting clipboard data. SLIMAGENT was first publicly documented by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) in June 2025. SLIMAGENT, per the Slo...

Salesforce has warned of an increase in threat actor activity that's aimed at exploiting misconfigurations in publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites by making use of a customized version of an open-source tool called AuraInspector. The activity, per the company, involves the exploitation of customers' overly permissive Experience Cloud guest user configurations to obtain access to sensitive data. "Evidence indicates the threat actor is leveraging a modified version of the open-source tool AuraInspector [...] to perform mass scanning of public-facing Experience Cloud sites," Salesforce said . "While the original AuraInspector is limited to identifying vulnerable objects by probing API endpoints that these sites expose (specifically the /s/sfsites/aura endpoint), the actor has developed a custom version of the tool capable of going beyond identification to actually extract data — exploiting overly permissive guest user settings." AuraInspector ref...