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“Jingle Thief” Hackers Exploit Cloud Infrastructure to Steal Millions in Gift Cards

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud. "Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers

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Over 250 Magento Stores Hit Overnight as Hackers Exploit New Adobe Commerce Flaw

E-commerce security company Sansec has warned that threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms, with more than 250 attack attempts recorded against multiple stores over the past 24 hours. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-54236 (CVSS score: 9.1), a critical improper input validation flaw that could be

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Critical Lanscope Endpoint Manager Bug Exploited in Ongoing Cyberattacks, CISA Confirms

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), impacts on-premises versions of Lanscope Endpoint Manager, specifically Client

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Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada's anti money-laundering laws come ten months after KrebsOnSecurity noted that Cryptomus's Vancouver street address was home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which were physically located there.

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Iran-Linked MuddyWater Targets 100+ Organisations in Global Espionage Campaign

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including over 100 government entities. The end goal of the campaign is to infiltrate high-value targets and facilitate intelligence gathering

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Ukraine Aid Groups Targeted Through Fake Zoom Meetings and Weaponized PDF Files

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine's war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2). The activity, which took place on October 8, 2025, targeted individual members of the International Red Cross, Norwegian Refugee

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TARmageddon Flaw in Popular Rust Library Leads to RCE

The vulnerability impacts multiple Rust tar parsers, allowing attackers to smuggle additional archive entries. The post TARmageddon Flaw in Popular Rust Library Leads to RCE appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in TP-Link’s Omada Gateways

One of the flaws can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers for arbitrary command execution. The post Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in TP-Link’s Omada Gateways appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chinese Threat Actors Exploit ToolShell SharePoint Flaw Weeks After Microsoft's July Patch

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025. Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as government agencies in South America, a university in the U.S., as well as likely a state technology

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Keycard Emerges From Stealth Mode With $38 Million in Funding

The company’s IAM platform identifies AI agents, supports assigning permission to them, and tracks all activity. The post Keycard Emerges From Stealth Mode With $38 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Top 50 Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2025

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 22, 2025 – Read the full story from Evolution Equity Partners The top 50 cybersecurity companies of 2025 are recognized by Evolution Equity Partners for their monumental undertaking to shape the future of The post Top 50 Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2025 appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Russian APT Switches to New Backdoor After Malware Exposed by Researchers

Star Blizzard started using the NoRobot (BaitSwitch) and MaybeRobot (SimpleFix) malware after public reporting on the LostKeys malware. The post Russian APT Switches to New Backdoor After Malware Exposed by Researchers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Bridging the Remediation Gap: Introducing Pentera Resolve

From Detection to Resolution: Why the Gap Persists A critical vulnerability is identified in an exposed cloud asset. Within hours, five different tools alert you about it: your vulnerability scanner, XDR, CSPM, SIEM, and CMDB each surface the issue in their own way, with different severity levels, metadata, and context. What’s missing is a system of action. How do you transition from the

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Fake Nethereum NuGet Package Used Homoglyph Trick to Steal Crypto Wallet Keys

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the NuGet package manager with malicious typosquats of Nethereum, a popular Ethereum .NET integration platform, to steal victims' cryptocurrency wallet keys. The package, Netherеum.All, has been found to harbor functionality to decode a command-and-control (C2) endpoint and exfiltrate mnemonic phrases, private keys, and

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What Makes a Great Field CXO: Lessons from the Front Lines

If you are recruiting for a Field CISO, Field CTO, etc., or are looking to leverage a resource at your company in one of these roles, what are some things you should be aware of? The post What Makes a Great Field CXO: Lessons from the Front Lines appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fencing and Pet Company Jewett-Cameron Hit by Ransomware

Jewett-Cameron Company says hackers stole sensitive information and are threatening to release it unless a ransom is paid. The post Fencing and Pet Company Jewett-Cameron Hit by Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Oracle Releases October 2025 Patches

The Critical Patch Update contains 374 new security patches that resolve many vulnerabilities. The post Oracle Releases October 2025 Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases

The advice didn't change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more important security factor, and passphrases are the simplest way to get your users to create

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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware

Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and East Asia in June, using

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Hackers Earn Over $520,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025

Participants exploited 34 previously unknown vulnerabilities to hack printers, NAS devices, and smart home products. The post Hackers Earn Over $520,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.