Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts.
“Threat actors leveraged compromised credentials that mapped to both Cisco VPN and an over-privileged Active Directory account named, ‘serviceaccount,'” eSentire said in a technical report published

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Oracle on Saturday issued a security alert warning of a fresh security flaw impacting its E-Business Suite that it said could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61884, carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity. It affects versions from 12.2.3 through 12.2.14.
“Easily exploitable vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with

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Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 (aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem), which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware.
The threat actor’s use of the security utility was documented by Sophos last month. It’s assessed that the attackers

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