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Cyber
06
Jan

India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements

January 6, 2025
The Indian government has published a draft version of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules for public consultation. “Data fiduciaries must provide clear and accessible information about how personal data is processed, enabling informed consent,” India’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) said in a statement released Sunday. “Citizens are empowered with rights to demand data...
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06
Jan

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [6 Jan]

January 6, 2025
Every tap, click, and swipe we make online shapes our digital lives, but it also opens doors—some we never meant to unlock. Extensions we trust, assistants we rely on, and even the codes we scan are turning into tools for attackers. The line between convenience and vulnerability has never been thinner. This week, we dive...
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06
Jan

From $22M in Ransom to +100M Stolen Records: 2025’s All-Star SaaS Threat Actors to Watch

January 6, 2025
In 2024, cyber threats targeting SaaS surged, with 7,000 password attacks blocked per second (just in Entra ID)—a 75% increase from last year—and phishing attempts up by 58%, causing $3.5 billion in losses (source: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024). SaaS attacks are increasing, with hackers often evading detection through legitimate usage patterns. The cyber threat...
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06
Jan

FireScam Android Malware Poses as Telegram Premium to Steal Data and Control Devices

January 6, 2025
An Android information stealing malware named FireScam has been found masquerading as a premium version of the Telegram messaging app to steal data and maintain persistent remote control over compromised devices. “Disguised as a fake ‘Telegram Premium’ app, it is distributed through a GitHub.io-hosted phishing site that impersonates RuStore – a popular app store in...
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06
Jan

Russian-Speaking Attackers Target Ethereum Devs with Fake Hardhat npm Packages

January 6, 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been found impersonating the Nomic Foundation’s Hardhat tool in order to steal sensitive data from developer systems. “By exploiting trust in open source plugins, attackers have infiltrated these platforms through malicious npm packages, exfiltrating critical data such as private keys, mnemonics,
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04
Jan

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution

January 4, 2025
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery’s Nuclei, a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tracked as CVE-2024-43405, it carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. It impacts all versions of Nuclei later than...
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04
Jan

PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps

January 4, 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according to Google’s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known remote administration tool referred to as Gh0st RAT, which had its source
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04
Jan

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns

January 4, 2025
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S. victims. These attacks have been publicly attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda or
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03
Jan

New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%

January 3, 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Yongzhe Huang, Yang Ji, Wenjun...
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03
Jan

LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers

January 3, 2025
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score: 7.5). It was addressed by Microsoft as part of Patch Tuesday updates for December 2024, alongside CVE-2024-49112 (
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