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The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that’s targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new variant of WINELOADER and a previously unreported malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER.
“While the improved WINELOADER variant is still a modular backdoor used in later stages, GRAPELOADER is a newly observed initial-stage tool
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Kaspersky researchers report the reappearance of MysterySnail RAT, a malware linked to Chinese IronHusky APT, targeting Mongolia and…
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Midnight Blizzard (APT29/Cozy Bear) targets European embassies and Ministries of Foreign Affairs with sophisticated phishing emails disguised as…
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.
The packages in question are listed below –
node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)
node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)
node-telegram-util (73 downloads)
According to supply chain
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Plus: A US judge rules against police cell phone “tower dumps,” China names alleged NSA agents it says were involved in cyberattacks, and Customs and Border Protection reveals its social media spying tools.
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ASUS has disclosed a critical security flaw impacting routers with AiCloud enabled that could permit remote attackers to perform unauthorized execution of functions on susceptible devices.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2492, has a CVSS score of 9.2 out of a maximum of 10.0.
“An improper authentication control vulnerability exists in certain ASUS router firmware series,”
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Threat actors would be at least temporarily derailed, experts say. But the real issue ladders back to organizations’ weak cyber hygiene.
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