A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. “This TA416 activity included multiple
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Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. “Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-suppliedRead More »Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers
A Chinese threat actor exploited the video conferencing platform to perform reconnaissance, escalate privileges, and execute additional payloads. The post TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Asian Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Symantec vulnerability, anti-ClickFix mechanism added to macOS, FBI hack classified as major incident. The post In Other News: ChatGPT Data Leak, Android Rootkit, Water Facility Hit by Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The vulnerabilities can be chained together to bypass authentication and upload arbitrary files to the server. The post Critical ShareFile Flaws Lead to Unauthenticated RCE appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mercor has faced a breach of data.
WebinarTV searches the internet for public Zoom invites, joins the meetings, secretly records them, and publishes (alternate link) the recordings. It doesn’t use the Zoom record feature, so Zoom can’t do anything about it.
The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts “specifically to me” by first approaching him under theRead More »UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack
The next major breach hitting your clients probably won’t come from inside their walls. It’ll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That’s the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it. Cynomi’s new guide, Securing theRead More »Why Third-Party Risk Is the Biggest Gap in Your Clients’ Security Posture
