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Google Disrupts XCPE Botnet and Bans Videostrong

Google's legal takedown severs botnet control to disrupt the criminal market that sold access to infected devices.

Tampered Claude Code Extension on Cursor Installed Persistent SSH Backdoor

Plex2Shell Exploit Turns Unpatched Plex Servers Into Miners and Proxy Nodes

CloudSyncD Backdoor Masquerades as Zoom Installer to Bypass macOS Gatekeeper

Microsoft Says FSB‑Linked Star Blizzard Used RedFlick to Target 100+ Organizations

MacSync Malware Uses Public iCloud Calendars to Deliver Revamped macOS Infostealer

FamousSparrow Uses New SparroWocky Backdoor Against Latin American Governments

China-Linked Hackers Use Tencent IME Flaw to Deliver GrayRabbit Backdoor

Adobe Patches Active Magento Zero-Day Used to Install Rust Backdoors and PHP Web Shells

Fire Ant Turns Cisco Routers and TACACS Servers Into Espionage Platforms

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA to Install WebSocket Reverse Tunnel

Signed Chinese Wallpaper App Used to Sideload ValleyRAT Backdoor

Typosquatted Rust Crate Delivered Build‑Time Backdoor

Cisco Talos: Chinese-Speaking Group Uses AI and New 'SPECTRE' Tooling to Blind Endpoint Defenses

Active Exploitation of VMware vCenter Flaw Lets Attackers Maintain Outbound Reverse Shells

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero‑Day in New 'Operation Dream Job' Wave

Zbtlink Routers Ship With Built‑In Backdoor That Can Grant Unauthenticated Root Shells

Chaos Ransomware's msaRAT Tunnels C2 Through Headless Chrome and Edge

GigaWiper Backdoor Merges Spy Capabilities With Multiple Irreversible Wipers

China-Linked UAT-7810 Builds Out Router Relay Network With New LONGLEASH Backdoor