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HollowFrame Loader Deploys Matryoshka Backdoor in Spear-Phishing Attack on Law Firm

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka.

According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing message containing a link to an encrypted archive, which holds a Windows Shortcut (LNK). Executing the file triggers a multi-stage chain that

In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records.

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Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers

Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out.

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Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies

Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators.

Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019.

The same apps have a second job. When a box

ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware

Attackers are adapting established techniques to AI platforms, emerging technologies, and changing user behavior. ESET’s new threat report examines the rise of malicious AI skills, AI-assisted malware, ClickFix attacks, record quishing activity, and ransomware tools designed to disable security software. […]

Three Recent Chrome Releases Fix 1,442 Flaws, More Than Prior 23 Updates Combined

Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined.

Both versions were released last month. In its latest patch for Chrome 151, released Wednesday, the tech giant resolved 370 flaws, out of which 349 were reported by Google itself. Seven of the

Researchers Report 84 Flaws in 4G and 5G Cores, Including a Session Hijacking Flaw

An academic study has disclosed a “widespread class” of security vulnerabilities impacting 4G and 5G core networks that, if successfully exploited, could trigger denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and even session hijacking, allowing an attacker to seize control of a user’s network session.

The findings have been released by a group of researchers from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University

6 Reasons Why Device Code Phishing is the Fastest-Growing Threat of 2026

Device code phishing – the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens – has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months.

Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so on, the device authorization login flow has been adopted by a wide range of apps and use-cases that it wasn’t originally

Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously.

After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits. The researchers recovered no further operator input in the session.

The operator, tracked through the aliases knaithe and KnYuan,

Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace

The internet giant has built an agent harness to find vulnerabilities across Chrome’s codebase.

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