Hacker News

• New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora May 31, 2025
  Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. […]
• U.S. DoJ Seizes 4 Domains Supporting Cybercrime Crypting Services in Global Operation May 31, 2025
  A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized four domains and their associated server facilitated the crypting service on […]
• New EDDIESTEALER Malware Bypasses Chrome's App-Bound Encryption to Steal Browser Data May 30, 2025
  A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. "This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which ultimately deploys the infostealer, harvesting sensitive data such as
• China-Linked Hackers Exploit SAP and SQL Server Flaws in Attacks Across Asia and Brazil May 30, 2025
  The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. "The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of […]
• From the "Department of No" to a "Culture of Yes": A Healthcare CISO's Journey to Enabling Modern Care May 30, 2025
  Breaking Out of the Security Mosh Pit When Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, describes legacy healthcare IT environments, he doesn't mince words: "Healthcare loves to walk backwards into the future. And this is how we got here, because there are a lot of things that we could have prepared for that we didn't, […]
• U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud May 30, 2025
  The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting scams that led to massive cryptocurrency losses. The Treasury accused the Taguig-headquartered company of enabling thousands of websites involved in
• ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach May 30, 2025
  ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by a nation-state threat actor. "ConnectWise recently learned of suspicious activity within our environment that we believe was tied to a sophisticated nation-state actor, which affected a very […]
• Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas May 30, 2025
  Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. "We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps," the social media giant said in its quarterly Adversarial Threat Report. This included a network […]
• Cybercriminals Target AI Users with Malware-Loaded Installers Posing as Popular Tools May 29, 2025
  Fake installers for popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI ChatGPT and InVideo AI are being used as lures to propagate various threats, such as the CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware families, and a new malware dubbed Numero. "CyberLock ransomware, developed using PowerShell, primarily focuses on encrypting specific files on the victim's system," Cisco Talos researcher […]
• New Windows RAT Evades Detection for Weeks Using Corrupted DOS and PE Headers May 29, 2025
  Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off an unusual cyber attack that leveraged malware with corrupted DOS and PE headers, according to new findings from Fortinet. The DOS (Disk Operating System) and PE (Portable Executable) headers are essential parts of a Windows PE file, providing information about the executable. While the DOS header makes the […]