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ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks

Organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia have emerged as the target of a phishing campaign undertaken by a previously undocumented hacking group called ComicForm since at least April 2025.
The activity primarily targeted industrial, financial, tourism, biotechnology, research, and trade sectors, cybersecurity company F6 said in an analysis published last week.
The attack chain involves
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UNC1549 Hacks 34 Devices in 11 Telecom Firms via LinkedIn Job Lures and MINIBIKE Malware

An Iran-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC1549 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting European telecommunications companies, successfully infiltrating 34 devices across 11 organizations as part of a recruitment-themed activity on LinkedIn.
Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the cluster under the name Subtle Snail. It’s assessed to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic
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Chaos Mesh Critical GraphQL Flaws Enable RCE and Full Kubernetes Cluster Takeover

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple critical security vulnerabilities in Chaos Mesh that, if successfully exploited, could lead to cluster takeover in Kubernetes environments.
“Attackers need only minimal in-cluster network access to exploit these vulnerabilities, execute the platform’s fault injections (such as shutting down pods or disrupting network communications), and perform
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45 Previously Unreported Domains Expose Longstanding Salt Typhoon Cyber Espionage

Threat hunters have discovered a set of previously unreported domains, some going back to May 2020, that are associated with China-linked threat actors Salt Typhoon and UNC4841.
“The domains date back several years, with the oldest registration activity occurring in May 2020, further confirming that the 2024 Salt Typhoon attacks were not the first activity carried out by this group,” Silent Push
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Noisy Bear Targets Kazakhstan Energy Sector With BarrelFire Phishing Campaign

A threat actor possibly of Russian origin has been attributed to a new set of attacks targeting the energy sector in Kazakhstan.
The activity, codenamed Operation BarrelFire, is tied to a new threat group tracked by Seqrite Labs as Noisy Bear. The threat actor has been active since at least April 2025.
“The campaign is targeted towards employees of KazMunaiGas or KMG where the threat entity
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Malicious npm Packages Exploit Ethereum Smart Contracts to Target Crypto Developers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious packages on the npm registry that make use of smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain to carry out malicious actions on compromised systems, signaling the trend of threat actors constantly on the lookout for new ways to distribute malware and fly under the radar.
“The two npm packages abused smart contracts to conceal malicious
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Lazarus Group Expands Malware Arsenal With PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a social engineering campaign that distributes three different pieces of cross-platform malware called PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE.
The attack, observed by NCC Group’s Fox-IT in 2024, targeted an organization in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, ultimately leading to the compromise of an
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Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to Deploy Visual Studio Code for C2 Tunneling

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ongoing abuse of legitimate software for malicious purposes.
“In this incident, the threat actor used the tool to download and execute Visual Studio Code with the likely intention of creating a
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Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain Linking Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution

Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. 
The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below –

CVE-2025-53693 – HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections
CVE-2025-53691 – Remote code execution (RCE) through insecure deserialization
CVE-2025-53694 –

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Storm-0501 Exploits Entra ID to Exfiltrate and Delete Azure Data in Hybrid Cloud Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments.
“Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware to encrypt critical files across endpoints within the compromised network and then negotiates for a decryption key,
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