Search the Portal

Recent Articles

DEC31
Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack

Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets. "Our Developer GitHub secrets were exposed in the attack, which gave the attacker access to our browser extension source

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC31
DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide

The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under the moniker DarkSpectre. In all, the

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC31
IBM Warns of Critical API Connect Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass

IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-13915, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw. "IBM API Connect could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC31
Researchers Spot Modified Shai-Hulud Worm Testing Payload on npm Registry

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be a new strain of Shai Hulud on the npm registry with slight modifications from the previous wave observed last month. The npm package that embeds the novel Shai Hulud strain is "@vietmoney/react-big-calendar," which was uploaded to npm back in March 2021 by a user named "hoquocdat." It was updated for the first time on

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC31
Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack Led to $8.5 Million Trust Wallet Heist

The worm exposed Trust Wallet’s Developer GitHub secrets, allowing attackers to publish a backdoor extension and steal funds from 2,520 wallets. The post Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack Led to $8.5 Million Trust Wallet Heist appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC31
European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data

The European Space Agency is conducting an investigation and says external science servers have been compromised. The post European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC30
U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator, from the specially designated nationals list. The names of the individuals are as follows - Merom Harpaz Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC30
CSA Issues Alert on Critical SmarterMail Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has issued a bulletin warning of a maximum-severity security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52691, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It relates to a case of arbitrary file upload that could enable code execution without requiring any

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC30
8 Cybersecurity Acquisitions Surpassed $1 Billion Mark in 2025

The total disclosed value for all the cybersecurity M&A deals announced in 2025 exceeded $84 billion. The post 8 Cybersecurity Acquisitions Surpassed $1 Billion Mark in 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC30
Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote access trojan called ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0). "This sophisticated attack leverages a complex kill chain involving DLL hijacking and the modular Valley RAT to ensure persistence," CloudSEK researchers Prajwal Awasthi and Koushik Pal said in an

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC30
Chinese APT Mustang Panda Caught Using Kernel-Mode Rootkit

The threat actor uses a signed driver file containing two user-mode shellcodes to execute its ToneShell backdoor. The post Chinese APT Mustang Panda Caught Using Kernel-Mode Rootkit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC30
How to Integrate AI into Modern SOC Workflows

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into security operations quickly, but many practitioners are still struggling to turn early experimentation into consistent operational value. This is because SOCs are adopting AI without an intentional approach to operational integration. Some teams treat it as a shortcut for broken processes. Others attempt to apply machine learning to problems

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC30
Korean Air Data Compromised in Oracle EBS Hack

Roughly 30,000 Korean Air employees had their data stolen by hackers in a breach at former subsidiary KC&D. The post Korean Air Data Compromised in Oracle EBS Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC30
Mustang Panda Uses Signed Kernel-Mode Rootkit to Load TONESHELL Backdoor

The Chinese hacking group known as Mustang Panda has leveraged a previously undocumented kernel-mode rootkit driver to deliver a new variant of backdoor dubbed TONESHELL in a cyber attack detected in mid-2025 targeting an unspecified entity in Asia. The findings come from Kaspersky, which observed the new backdoor variant in cyber espionage campaigns mounted by the hacking group targeting

The Hacker News by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEC29
Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of...

Krebs on Security by BrianKrebs