Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats

A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity. The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome

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Militant Groups Are Experimenting With AI, and the Risks Are Expected to Grow

AI can be used by extremist groups to pump out propaganda or deepfakes at scale, widening their reach and expanding their influence. The post Militant Groups Are Experimenting With AI, and the Risks Are Expected to Grow appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations. The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below - CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) - Numerous

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Google Sees 5 Chinese Groups Exploiting React2Shell for Malware Delivery

Google has also mentioned seeing React2Shell attacks conducted by Iranian threat actors. The post Google Sees 5 Chinese Groups Exploiting React2Shell for Malware Delivery appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mastercard’s Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD on AI & Cybersecurity

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2025 –Watch the YouTube video Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), cybercrime and, as a result, cybersecurity are evolving rapidly, leaving businesses and individuals across the world scrambling to catch up. The post Mastercard’s Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD on AI & Cybersecurity appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Apple 0-Days, WinRAR Exploit, LastPass Fines, .NET RCE, OAuth Scams & More

If you use a smartphone, browse the web, or unzip files on your computer, you are in the crosshairs this week. Hackers are currently exploiting critical flaws in the daily software we all rely on—and in some cases, they started attacking before a fix was even ready. Below, we list the urgent updates you need to install right now to stop these active threats. ⚡ Threat of the Week Apple and

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A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign

In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them run clean for years to build trust and gain millions of installs, then suddenly flipping them into

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Soverli Raises $2.6 Million for Secure Smartphone OS

The sovereign smartphone OS runs along Android or iOS, allowing users to switch between secure, isolated environments. The post Soverli Raises $2.6 Million for Secure Smartphone OS appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Atlassian Patches Critical Apache Tika Flaw

Atlassian has released software updates for Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Crowd, Fisheye/Crucible, and Jira. The post Atlassian Patches Critical Apache Tika Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Third DraftKings Hacker Pleads Guilty

Nathan Austad admitted in court to launching a credential stuffing attack against a fantasy sports and betting website. The post Third DraftKings Hacker Pleads Guilty appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Phantom Stealer Spread by ISO Phishing Emails Hitting Russian Finance Sector

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that's targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious ISO optical disc images. The activity, codenamed Operation MoneyMount-ISO by Seqrite Labs, has primarily singled out finance and accounting entities, with those in the procurement, legal, payroll

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700Credit Data Breach Impacts 5.8 Million Individuals

Hackers stole names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers from the credit report and identity verification services provider. The post 700Credit Data Breach Impacts 5.8 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Apple Patches Two Zero-Days Tied to Mysterious Exploited Chrome Flaw

Apple has released macOS and iOS updates to patch two WebKit zero-days exploited in an “extremely sophisticated” attack. The post Apple Patches Two Zero-Days Tied to Mysterious Exploited Chrome Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Trump Administration Issues New AI Executive Order

How should organizations respond to the new AI executive order?

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VolkLocker Ransomware Exposed by Hard-Coded Master Key Allowing Free Decryption

The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker that suffers from implementation lapses in test artifacts, allowing users to decrypt files without paying an extortion fee. According to SentinelOne, VolkLocker (aka CyberVolk 2.x) emerged in August 2025 and is capable of targeting both Windows

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Sierra Wireless Router Flaw Enabling RCE Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score: 8.8/9.9) refers to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code

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Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in the wild, one of which is the same flaw that was patched by Google in Chrome earlier this week. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-43529 (CVSS score: N/A) - A use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit

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Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that's leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT. "These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible for silently downloading a remote HTA file and executing

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In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, Small macOS Bounties, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Pentagon orders accelerated move to PQC, US shuts down scheme to smuggle GPUs to China, DroidLock Android ransomware. The post In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, Small macOS Bounties, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Advanced Phishing Kits Use AI and MFA Bypass Tactics to Steal Credentials at Scale

Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that are capable of facilitating credential theft at scale. BlackForce, first detected in August 2025, is designed to steal credentials and perform Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks to capture one-time passwords (OTPs) and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The kit