Author: Robert Timlick

  • Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation

    Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation

    Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security’s 0patch.
    The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that could lead to remote
  • Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud

    Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud

    The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate a worm that deploys a banking trojan via WhatsApp in attacks targeting users in Brazil.
    The latest wave is characterized by the attackers shifting from PowerShell to a Python-based variant that spreads the
  • Discover the AI Tools Fueling the Next Cybercrime Wave — Watch the Webinar

    Discover the AI Tools Fueling the Next Cybercrime Wave — Watch the Webinar

    Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a distant country?
    Those days are over.
    Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and a $200 allowance can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don’t need to be smart; they just need to subscribe to the right AI tool.
    We are witnessing the industrialization of
  • Chopping AI Down to Size: Turning Disruptive Technology into a Strategic Advantage

    Chopping AI Down to Size: Turning Disruptive Technology into a Strategic Advantage

    Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, and still lost by a quarter inch. His mistake was not losing the contest. His mistake was assuming that effort alone could outmatch a new kind of tool.
    Security professionals are facing a similar
  • Picklescan Bugs Allow Malicious PyTorch Models to Evade Scans and Execute Code

    Picklescan Bugs Allow Malicious PyTorch Models to Evade Scans and Execute Code

    Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary code by loading untrusted PyTorch models, effectively bypassing the tool’s protections.
    Picklescan, developed and maintained by Matthieu Maitre (@mmaitre314), is a security scanner that’s designed to parse Python pickle files and detect suspicious
  • Klickitat County Auditor: Ballots rejected for late postmarks

    Klickitat County Auditor: Ballots rejected for late postmarks

    GOLDENDALE — Changes in U.S. postal operations cost 91 Klickitat County citizens their vote in the Nov. 4 special district elections. County Auditor Heather Jobe noted that as part of her report to county commissioners at their meeting on Nov.…
  • India Orders Messaging Apps to Work Only With Active SIM Cards to Prevent Fraud and Misuse

    India Orders Messaging Apps to Work Only With Active SIM Cards to Prevent Fraud and Misuse

    India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to ensure that the platforms cannot be used without an active SIM card linked to the user’s mobile number.
    To that end, messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Arattai, Sharechat, Josh, JioChat, and Signal that use an Indian mobile number for uniquely identifying their
  • Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera

    Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera

    A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD, conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and ANY.RUN, a solution for interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence, has uncovered one of North Korea’s most persistent infiltration schemes: a network of remote IT workers tied to Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima division.
    For the first time, researchers managed
  • Iran-Linked Hackers Hits Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks

    Iran-Linked Hackers Hits Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks

    Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper.
    The activity has been attributed by ESET to a hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango
  • SecAlerts Cuts Through the Noise with a Smarter, Faster Way to Track Vulnerabilities

    SecAlerts Cuts Through the Noise with a Smarter, Faster Way to Track Vulnerabilities

    Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and keeping track of all the vulnerability alerts, notifications, and updates can be a burden on resources and often leads to missed vulnerabilities. 
    Taking into account that nearly 10% of