Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q2 2025

In Q2 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 1.4 pp from the previous quarter to 20.5%. Compared to Q2 2024, the rate decreased by 3.0 pp. Regionally, the percentage of ICS computers Read More …

How AI-Native Development Platforms Enable Fake Captcha Pages

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized web development, empowering even novice users to create professional-looking websites. Tools like Lovable enable anyone to build and host applications with little to no coding knowledge, while Netlify and Vercel position themselves as AI-native development platforms. Read More …

SonicWall customers told to reset credentials following firewall data breach

SonicWall is urging its firewall customers to reset their passwords after confirming it suffering a security incident which may have exposed their data. In a security announcement, SonicWall outlined how unnamed threat actors brute-forced their way into the company’s MySonicWall Read More …

Disrupted phishing service was after Microsoft 365 credentials

Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a Phishing-as-a-Service operation, known as RaccoonO365. The primary goal of RaccoonO365 (or Storm-2246 as Microsoft calls it) was to rent out a phishing toolkit that specialized in stealing Microsoft 365 credentials. They were successful in Read More …

Node Package Manager Supply Chain Attack

On September 15, the Node Package Manager (NPM) repository experienced an ongoing supply chain attack, in which the attackers executed a highly targeted phishing campaign to compromise the account of an NPM package maintainer. With privileged access, the attackers injected Read More …

UK: Two teenagers charged over Transport for London cyber attack

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a massive cyber attack which caused Transport for London (TfL) months of disruption. The National Crime Agency (NCA) says it believes the hack – which began on 31 August last year – Read More …

“Shai-Hulud” Worm Compromises npm Ecosystem in Supply Chain Attack

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is investigating an active and widespread software supply chain attack targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem. A novel, self-replicating worm, which is currently being tracked as “Shai-Hulud,” is responsible for the compromise of over Read More …

RevengeHotels: a new wave of attacks leveraging LLMs and VenomRAT

RevengeHotels, also known as TA558, is a threat group that has been active since 2015, stealing credit card data from hotel guests and travelers. RevengeHotels’ modus operandi involves sending emails with phishing links which redirect victims to websites mimicking document Read More …

Shiny tools, shallow checks: how the AI hype opens the door to malicious MCP servers

In this article, Kaspersky researchers explore how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the new “plug-in bus” for AI assistants — can be weaponized as a supply chain foothold. The researchers start with a primer on MCP, map out protocol-level Read More …

Another massive DDoS attack that reached 1.5 Bpps has been thwarted

A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting a DDoS mitigation vendor somewhere in Western Europe has been spotted and mitigated by FastNetMon. The firm says the attack peaked at a massive 1.5 billion packets per second, making it one of the largest Read More …