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The Hacker News

The Hacker News (THN) is widely regarded as a top source for Information Security news, boasting over 5 million readers and followers each month. THN delivers up-to-date Cyber Security News and provides thorough insights into current and emerging trends in Information Technology, exploring their impact on the cyber landscape. The platform is backed by a community of security professionals, hackers, administrators, and members from various underground hacking groups around the globe.

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  • 1 day ago | thehackernews.com | Ravie Lakshmanan

    Cisco has released security patches to address a critical security flaw impacting the Identity Services Engine (ISE) that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated actors to carry out malicious actions on susceptible systems. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-20286, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10.0. It has been described as a static credential vulnerability.

  • 2 days ago | thehackernews.com | Ravie Lakshmanan

    Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said "specialises" in voice phishing (aka vishing) campaigns designed to breach organizations' Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under the moniker UNC6040, which it said exhibits characteristics that align with threat groups with ties to an online cybercrime collective known as The Com.

  • 2 days ago | thehackernews.com | Ravie Lakshmanan

    Threat hunters are calling attention to a new variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called Chaos RAT that has been used in recent attacks targeting Windows and Linux systems. According to findings from Acronis, the malware artifact may have been distributed by tricking victims into downloading a network troubleshooting utility for Linux environments.

  • 2 days ago | thehackernews.com | Ravie Lakshmanan

    Several malicious packages have been uncovered across the npm, Python, and Ruby package repositories that drain funds from cryptocurrency wallets, erase entire codebases after installation, and exfiltrate Telegram API tokens, once again demonstrating the variety of supply chain threats lurking in open-source ecosystems. The findings come from multiple reports published by Checkmarx, ReversingLabs, Safety, and Socket in recent weeks.

  • 3 days ago | thehackernews.com | Ravie Lakshmanan

    Threat hunters are alerting to a new campaign that employs deceptive websites to trick unsuspecting users into executing malicious PowerShell scripts on their machines and infect them with the NetSupport RAT malware. The DomainTools Investigations (DTI) team said it identified "malicious multi-stage downloader Powershell scripts" hosted on lure websites that masquerade as Gitcode and DocuSign.

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