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- ‘Happy Gilmore’ Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO Groupby Lily Hay Newman on October 11, 2025 at 10:30 am
Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more.
- DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoSby BrianKrebs on October 10, 2025 at 4:10 pm
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating efforts to limit collateral damage from the botnet’s attacks, which shattered previous records this week with a brief traffic flood that clocked in at nearly 30 trillion bits of data per second.
- Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploitsby Lily Hay Newman on October 10, 2025 at 9:15 am
With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses that could bring the max total reward for iPhone exploits to $5 million.
- North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Nowby Matt Burgess on October 10, 2025 at 9:00 am
New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.
- Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren’t Giving Upby Reece Rogers, Lily Hay Newman on October 9, 2025 at 5:22 pm
“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.
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- New Oracle E-Business Suite Bug Could Let Hackers Access Data Without Loginby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 12, 2025 at 5:24 pm
Oracle on Saturday issued a security alert warning of a fresh security flaw impacting its E-Business Suite that it said could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61884, carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity. It affects versions from 12.2.3 through 12.2.14. “Easily exploitable vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with
- Experts Warn of Widespread SonicWall VPN Compromise Impacting Over 100 Accountsby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Cybersecurity company Huntress on Friday warned of “widespread compromise” of SonicWall SSL VPN devices to access multiple customer environments. “Threat actors are authenticating into multiple accounts rapidly across compromised devices,” it said. “The speed and scale of these attacks imply that the attackers appear to control valid credentials rather than brute-forcing.” A significant chunk of
- Hackers Turn Velociraptor DFIR Tool Into Weapon in LockBit Ransomware Attacksby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 11, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 (aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem), which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware. The threat actor’s use of the security utility was documented by Sophos last month. It’s assessed that the attackers
- Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installersby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 10, 2025 at 2:25 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active malware campaign called Stealit that has leveraged Node.js’ Single Executable Application (SEA) feature as a way to distribute its payloads. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, select iterations have also employed the open-source Electron framework to deliver the malware. It’s assessed that the malware is being propagated through
- Microsoft Warns of ‘Payroll Pirates’ Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salariesby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 10, 2025 at 1:31 pm
A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts. “Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain access to third-party human resources (HR) software as a service (SaaS) platforms like Workday,” the