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Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware

Opposition activists in Belarus as well as Ukrainian military and government organizations are the target of a new campaign that employs malware-laced Microsoft Excel documents as lures to deliver a new variant of PicassoLoader.
The threat cluster has been assessed to be an extension of a long-running campaign mounted by a Belarus-aligned threat actor dubbed Ghostwriter (aka Moonscape,

Edera Banks $15M for Kubernetes Workload Isolation Tech

Seattle startup building technology to mitigate lateral movement and block “living off the land” techniques wins interest from investors.

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Leader of North Korean Hackers Sanctioned by EU

The EU has announced new sanctions against entities aiding Russia’s war against Ukraine, including an individual who leads North Korean hackers.

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Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is here and results are insane

Anthropic has started rolling out Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the company’s most advanced model and the first hybrid reasoning model it has shipped. […]

Nine Threat Groups Active in OT Operations in 2024: Dragos

Dragos has published its 2025 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report, which provides information on the threats and trends observed in 2024.

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CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting Oracle Agile PLM Vulnerability

CISA has added CVE-2024-20953, an Oracle Agile PLM vulnerability patched in January 2024, to its KEV catalog.

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Orange Group confirms breach after hacker leaks company documents

A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of internal documents with user records and employee data after breaching the systems of Orange Group, a leading French telecommunications operator and digital service provider. […]

5 Active Malware Campaigns in Q1 2025

The first quarter of 2025 has been a battlefield in the world of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals continued launching aggressive new campaigns and refining their attack methods.
Below is an overview of five notable malware families, accompanied by analyses conducted in controlled environments.
NetSupport RAT Exploiting the ClickFix Technique
In early 2025, threat actors began exploiting a technique

2,500+ Truesight.sys Driver Variants Exploited to Bypass EDR and Deploy HiddenGh0st RAT

A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice’s product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware.
“To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants (with different hashes) of the 2.0.2 driver by modifying specific PE parts while keeping the signature valid,” Check Point

GitVenom Malware Steals $456K in Bitcoin Using Fake GitHub Projects to Hijack Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that’s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub.
The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky.
“The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables

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