Thai police arrested four European hackers in Phuket who allegedly stole $16 million through ransomware attacks affecting over 1,000 victims worldwide. The suspects, wanted by Swiss and US authorities, were caught in coordinated raids across four locations. Officers from Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, led by Police Lieutenant General Trairong Phiwphan, conducted “Operation PHOBOS AETOR” in Phuket on February 10, arresting four foreign hackers involved in ransomware attacks. The operation, coordinated with Immigration Police and Region 8 Police, raided four locations across Phuket....
Four alleged hackers arrested in Phuket for hacking 17 Swiss firms
Four alleged European hackers have been arrested in Phuket for deploying ransomware on the networks of 17 Swiss firms. The suspects are accused of causing significant damage and stealing $16 million in Bitcoins from 1,000 global victims.
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
The TL;DR is that this time, we ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines - and then abandoned. Naturally, we registered them, just to see what would happen - “how many people are really trying to request software updates from S3 buckets that appear to have been abandoned months or even years ago?”, we naively thought to ourselves.
Spain arrests suspected hacker of US and Spanish military agencies
The Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker in Alicante for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks targeting critical public and private organizations, including the Guardia Civil, the Ministry of Defense, NATO, the US Army, and various universities.
A threat actor has infected the website of Casio UK and 16 other victims with a web skimmer that altered the payment flow to harvest and exfiltrate visitors’ information, web security provider Jscrambler reports.
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2025-21293)
In September of 2024 while on a customer assigment I encountered the “Network Configuration Operators” group, a so called builtin group of Active Directory (default). As I had never heard of or encountered this group membership before, it sprung to eye immediately. Initially I tried to look up if it had any security implications, like its more known colleagues DNS Admins and Backup Operators, but to no avail. Surpisingly little came up about the group but I couldn’t help myself from probing further. This led me down the rabbithole of Registry Database access control lists and possibilities of weaponization, culminating with the discovery of CVE-2025-21293. Before we move along to the body of work, I have to give out a special thanks to Clément Labro, who initially did the heavy lifting of finding a way to weaponize performancecounters. (This will hopefully make more sense by the end of the article) and my colleagues at ReTest Security ApS, who have provided me with knowledge in the field and the oppertunity to put it to use.
CVE-2025-0411: Ukrainian Organizations Targeted in Zero-Day Campaign and Homoglyph Attacks
The ZDI team offers an analysis of how CVE-2025-0411, a zero-day vulnerability in 7-Zip was actively exploited to target Ukrainian organizations through spear-phishing and homoglyph attacks.
U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, Per First-Ever Report
In a first-of-its-kind report, the US government has revealed that it disclosed 39 zero-day software vulnerabilities to vendors or the public in 2023 for the purpose of getting the vulnerabilities patched or mitigated, as opposed to retaining them to use in hacking operations. It’s the first time the government has revealed specific numbers about its controversial Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) — the process it uses to adjudicate decisions about whether zero-day vulnerabilities it discovers should be kept secret so law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and the military can exploit them in hacking operations or be disclosed to vendors to fix them. Zero-day vulnerabilities are security holes in software that are unknown to the software maker and are therefore unpatched at the time of discovery, making systems that use the software at risk of being hacked by anyone who discovers the flaw.
Kimsuky hackers use new custom RDP Wrapper for remote access
The North Korean hacking group known as Kimsuky was observed in recent attacks using a custom-built RDP Wrapper and proxy tools to directly access infected machines.
Habib Mohammadi reports: A group of unidentified hackers has breached the Taliban’s databases, leaking documents from 21 ministries and government agencies, some of which appear to be classified, according to reports circulating online. The leaked files reportedly include documents from the Taliban-controlled ministries of finance, justice, foreign affairs, information and culture, telecommunications, and mining, as well as the Supreme Court and the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The hackers have published hundreds of these documents on a website called “Talibleaks.”
Code injection attacks using publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys
Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed limited activity by an unattributed threat actor using a publicly available, static ASP.NET machine key to inject malicious code and deliver the Godzilla post-exploitation framework. In the course of investigating, remediating, and building protections against this activity, we observed an insecure practice whereby developers have incorporated various publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys from publicly accessible resources, such as code documentation and repositories, which threat actors have used to launch ViewState code injection attacks and perform malicious actions on target servers.
Critical Cisco ISE bug can let attackers run commands as root
Cisco has fixed two critical Identity Services Engine (ISE) vulnerabilities that can let attackers with read-only admin privileges bypass authorization and run commands as root.
Hackers spoof Microsoft ADFS login pages to steal credentials
A help desk phishing campaign targets an organization's Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) using spoofed login pages to steal credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections. #ADFS #Account #Computer #InfoSec #Lateral #MFA #Microsoft #Notification #Phishing #Push #Security #Takeover
VulnCheck and partner GreyNoise discovered Zyxel-related vulnerabilities being targeted in the wild. In this blog, VulnCheck describes the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-40891 and CVE-2025-0890.
SparkCat crypto stealer in Google Play and App Store
Kaspersky experts discover iOS and Android apps infected with the SparkCat crypto stealer in Google Play and the App Store. It steals crypto wallet data using an OCR model.