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🚨 New Threat Alert: Salty2FA & Tycoon2FA are Now Targeting Enterprises in a Joint Phishing Operation. A new PhaaS “chimera” now appears inside the same campaigns and even the same payloads, making attribution harder. See the hybrid payload executed in the @anyrun_app sandbox — click here. 👨‍💻 Get all the details and actionable IOCs to adapt detection and threat hunting — click here. ----- #ad #paidpromotion #sponsored @Cyber_Security_Channel

Highly Popular NPM Packages Poisoned in New Supply Chain Attack A DuckDB maintainer was also phished, but the DuckDBLabs team was able to block the attacker’s access shortly after. However, the DuckDB distribution for Node.js on the NPM registry was injected with malware, the team announced. Cyber_Security_Channel

React2Shell Attacks Linked to North Korean Hackers In the EtherRAT attack, React2Shell is exploited to execute a shell command for downloading and executing a shell script designed to deploy a JavaScript implant. This implant is a dropper that decrypts the main payload, EtherRAT. Cyber_Security_Channel

🔴 LIVE from inside #Lazarus APT's IT workers scheme.   For weeks, researchers from NorthScan & BCA LTD kept #hackers believing they controlled a US dev's laptop. In reality, it was #ANYRUN sandbox recording everything.   ➡️ See full story and videos — click here. ----- #ad #paidpromotion #sponsored @Cyber_Security_Channel

Chrome, Edge Extensions Caught Tracking Users, Creating Backdoors All gained ‘Featured’ and ‘Verified’ statuses from Google, before the threat actor weaponized them with a malicious update in mid-2024. One of them, Clean Master, had more than 300,000 installs. The update essentially transformed the extensions into a remote code execution framework, Koi says. Every hour, the extensions would check an external server for instructions and execute arbitrary JavaScript code, with full browser API access. Cyber_Security_Channel

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⚡️University of Pennsylvania Confirms New Data Breach After Oracle Hack University of Pennsylvania disclosed another breach in late October 2025, after a hacker compromised internal systems and stole data on Penn's development and alumni activities. The attacker claimed they exfiltrated personal information belonging to roughly 1.2 million students, alumni, and donors. Institution noted that the attackers exploited a previously unknown security vulnerability. @Cyber_Security_Channel

Beyond the Prompt: Building Trustworthy Agent Systems Output validation & guardrails: never trust raw agent output. Implement strict validation checks before any action is taken or result is presented. Define clear boundaries for what actions are permissible (e.g., “can read this database but never modify it”). Cyber_Security_Channel

Securing The Human Layer: Modernising Workforce Authentication Attackers are using increasingly sophisticated techniques, including credential spraying, brute-force attacks and malware that intercepts passwords and one-time passwords (OTPs). Additionally, push-bombing or MFA fatigue attacks overwhelm users with mobile push authentication prompts, increasing the likelihood of accidental approval. These vulnerabilities highlight the urgent need to move away from legacy authentication methods, which consistently fail to prevent breaches and expose organizations to financial, reputational and operational harm. Cyber_Security_Channel

Chrome Sandbox Escape Earns Researcher $250,000 $250,000 is the maximum reward that Google is prepared to pay out for a Chrome sandbox escape vulnerability, but the amount can only be earned for a submission that includes a high-quality report with demonstration of remote code execution. Cyber_Security_Channel

Back in August: 6.4 million Bouygues Telecom customers just had their data exposed in a huge data breach – and it's the second to hit French telecoms operators in a month Never share your usernames and passwords. Be particularly wary of calls from fake bank advisors who may try to gain your trust by giving your name or account number. If in doubt, end the call and call your bank or bank advisor back at their usual number. Cyber_Security_Channel

Chinese Cyberspies Deploy ‘BadAudio’ Malware via Supply Chain Attacks BadAudio is deployed as a DLL and uses search order hijacking for execution. Recent versions have been dropped in archives also containing VBS, BAT, and LNK files, designed to automate the malware’s placement, to achieve persistence, and trigger the DLL’s sideloading. Cyber_Security_Channel

Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests' Payment Data As soon as the card details, along with the expiration data and CVV number, are entered, the page attempts to process a transaction in the background... While a "support chat" window appears on the screen with steps to complete a supposed "3D Secure verification for your credit card" to secure against fake bookings. 📷 Photo Credit: Dreamstime Cyber_Security_Channel

Newly Identified Android Spyware Appears to be From a Commercial Vendor The Android spyware, dubbed LANDFALL, exploited a zero-day, or previously undocumented, vulnerability in Galaxy phones’ image processing libraries. The spyware was likely sent via the WhatsApp messaging platform to exfiltrate data and snoop on targets. The vulnerability was privately reported to Samsung in September 2024 but the company did not release a firmware update to fix it until April 2025. Cyber_Security_Channel

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Google Finds Malware Connecting to AI Large Language Models to Hone Attacks One of the attacks, dubbed Quietvault, has been designed to steal login credentials from a Windows PC while leveraging "an AI prompt and on-host installed AI CLI [command line interface] tools to search for other potential secrets on the infected system. Another malware strain, called Promptflux, appears to be experimental work by hackers. It stands out by tapping Google’s Gemini chatbot to modify its computer code to avoid detection. “The most novel component of PROMPTFLUX is its ‘Thinking Robot’ module, designed to periodically query Gemini to obtain new code for evading antivirus software, Cyber_Security_Channel

August Spotlight: Australia’s TPG Telecom Investigating iiNet Hack The investigation is ongoing, but the company has determined that the hackers have exfiltrated email addresses, phone numbers and other types of data from the compromised system. Cyber_Security_Channel

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Fresh, Just In: Many Forbes AI 50 Companies Leak Secrets on GitHub Wiz’s scans also covered members and contributors of the core organization that could inadvertently expose company secrets in their own public repositories. In addition, the scans targeted less common AI-related secrets that may be missed by traditional scanners. Cyber_Security_Channel

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