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Over 269,000 Websites Infected with JSFireTruck JavaScript Malware in One Month
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a “large-scale campaign” that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, these malicious injects are obfuscated using JSFuck, which refers to an “esoteric and educational programming style” that uses only a limited set of characters to write and execute…
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Ransomware Gangs Exploit Unpatched SimpleHelp Flaws to Target Victims with Double Extortion
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday disclosed that ransomware actors are targeting unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) instances to compromise customers of an unnamed utility billing software provider. “This incident reflects a broader pattern of ransomware actors targeting organizations through unpatched versions of SimpleHelp
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Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware
Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed on February 10, 2025, as part of iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.4, macOS…
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WordPress Sites Turned Weapon: How VexTrio and Affiliates Run a Global Scam Network
The threat actors behind the VexTrio Viper Traffic Distribution Service (TDS) have been linked to other TDS services like Help TDS and Disposable TDS, indicating that the sophisticated cybercriminal operation is a sprawling enterprise of its own that’s designed to distribute malicious content. “VexTrio is a group of malicious adtech companies that distribute scams and…
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New TokenBreak Attack Bypasses AI Moderation with Single-Character Text Changes
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack technique called TokenBreak that can be used to bypass a large language model’s (LLM) safety and content moderation guardrails with just a single character change. “The TokenBreak attack targets a text classification model’s tokenization strategy to induce false negatives, leaving end targets vulnerable to attacks that the implemented
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AI Agents Run on Secret Accounts — Learn How to Secure Them in This Webinar
AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can do, this one focuses on what AI can break — if you’re not paying attention. Behind every AI agent, chatbot, or automation script lies a growing number of non-human…
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Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Without User Interaction
A novel attack technique named EchoLeak has been characterized as a “zero-click” artificial intelligence (AI) vulnerability that allows bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot’s context sans any user interaction. The critical-rated vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-32711 (CVSS score: 9.3). It requires no customer action and has been already
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ConnectWise to Rotate ScreenConnect Code Signing Certificates Due to Security Risks
ConnectWise has disclosed that it’s planning to rotate the digital code signing certificates used to sign ScreenConnect, ConnectWise Automate, and ConnectWise remote monitoring and management (RMM) executables due to security concerns. The company said it’s doing so “due to concerns raised by a third-party researcher about how ScreenConnect handled certain configuration data in earlier versions.
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Over 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID Accounts Targeted Using Open-Source TeamFiltration Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new account takeover (ATO) campaign that leverages an open-source penetration testing framework called TeamFiltration to breach Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) user accounts. The activity, codenamed UNK_SneakyStrike by Proofpoint, has affected over 80,000 targeted user accounts across hundreds of organizations’ cloud tenants since a
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Former Black Basta Members Use Microsoft Teams and Python Scripts in 2025 Attacks
Former members tied to the Black Basta ransomware operation have been observed sticking to their tried-and-tested approach of email bombing and Microsoft Teams phishing to establish persistent access to target networks. “Recently, attackers have introduced Python script execution alongside these techniques, using cURL requests to fetch and deploy malicious payloads,” ReliaQuest said in a report
