Google fixes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Android

Google has patched 62 vulnerabilities in Android, including two actively exploited zero-days in its April 2025 Android Security Bulletin. When we say “zero-day” we mean an exploitable software vulnerability for which there was no patch at the time of the Read More …

2025 Ransomware: Business as Usual, Business is Booming

Getting an edge on your adversaries involves understanding their behaviors and their mindset. Rapid7 Labs took a look at internal and publicly-available ransomware data for Q1 2025 and added our own insights to provide a picture of the year thus Read More …

Kellogg’s leaks sensitive data after Clop attack

WK Kellogg, the company behind the Kellogg’s cereals, has been hit by a major data breach. Cybercriminals from the ransomware group Clop exploited a vulnerability in the software of an external supplier, stealing employees’ personal data. The data breach took Read More …

Why Cloud Misconfigurations Remain A Top Cause Of Data Breaches

It’s 2025, and the industry has built some of the most advanced cloud environments ever seen—automated deployments, real-time threat detection and infrastructure that scales with just a few lines of code. Yet, data breaches aren’t slowing down—why? Because a single Read More …

How ToddyCat tried to hide behind AV software

To hide their activity in infected systems, APT groups resort to various techniques to bypass defenses. Most of these techniques are well known and detectable by both EPP solutions and EDR threat-monitoring and response tools. In early 2024, while investigating Read More …

Flaw in Verizon call record requests put millions of Americans at risk

Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. A vulnerability in Read More …

NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has warned. The technique is known as fast flux. It allows Read More …

OH-MY-DC: OIDC Misconfigurations in CI/CD

This paper accompanies the presentation “Oh-My-DC,” delivered at DEF CON 32 in August 2024. This article assumes a basic familiarity with OAuth and CI/CD pipelines, including concepts like authorization grants, access tokens and the different stages of a CI/CD workflow. Read More …

QR codes sent in attachments are the new favorite for phishers

Recently Malwarebytes Labs researchers have been seeing quite a few phishing campaigns using QR codes in email attachments. The lure and the targets are varied, but the use of a QR code to get someone to visit the phishing site Read More …