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Latest news as of 4/19/2025, 6:34:34 PM

The Hacker News

1 day ago

Multi-Stage Malware Attack Uses .JSE and PowerShell to Deploy Agent Tesla and XLoader

A new multi-stage attack has been observed delivering malware families like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT, and XLoader. "Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass traditional sandboxes, and ensure successful payload delivery and execution," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Saqib Khanzada said in a technical write-up of the campaign. The

Bleeping Computer

1 day ago

Cisco Webex bug lets hackers gain code execution via meeting links

Cisco has released security updates for a high-severity Webex vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain client-side remote code execution using malicious meeting invite links. [...]

Dark Reading

1 day ago

PromptArmor Launches to Help Assess, Monitor Third-Party AI Risks

The AI security startup has already made waves with critical vulnerability discoveries and seeks to address emerging AI concerns with its PromptArmor platform.

The Hacker News

1 day ago

[Webinar] AI Is Already Inside Your SaaS Stack — Learn How to Prevent the Next Silent Breach

Your employees didn’t mean to expose sensitive data. They just wanted to move faster. So they used ChatGPT to summarize a deal. Uploaded a spreadsheet to an AI-enhanced tool. Integrated a chatbot into Salesforce. No big deal—until it is. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Most security teams are already behind in detecting how AI tools are quietly reshaping their SaaS environments. And

The Register

1 day ago

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF? The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.… Comment

The Hacker News

1 day ago

Experts Uncover New XorDDoS Controller, Infrastructure as Malware Expands to Docker, Linux, IoT

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of continued risks posed by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware known as XorDDoS, with 71.3 percent of the attacks between November 2023 and February 2025 targeting the United States. "From 2020 to 2023, the XorDDoS trojan has increased significantly in prevalence," Cisco Talos researcher Joey Chen said in a Thursday analysis.

The Hacker News

2 days ago

CVE-2025-24054 Under Active Attack—Steals NTLM Credentials on File Download

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24054 (CVSS score: 6.5), is a Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hash disclosure

Bleeping Computer

2 days ago

Critical Erlang/OTP SSH pre-auth RCE is 'Surprisingly Easy' to exploit, patch now

A critical vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH, tracked as CVE-2025-32433, has been disclosed that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable devices. [...]

Bleeping Computer

2 days ago

Entertainment services giant Legends International discloses data breach

Entertainment venue management firm Legends International warns it suffered a data breach in November 2024, which has impacted employees and people who visited venues under its management. [...]

Dark Reading

2 days ago

Dogged by Trump, Chris Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne

The president revoked the former CISA director's security clearance, half a decade after Krebs challenged right-wing election disinformation, prompting his eventual resignation.