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🖋️ Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown 🖋️

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. The effort has targeted the following domains www.cracked.io www.nulled.to www.mysellix.io www.sellix.io www.starkrdp.io Visitors to these websites are now greeted by a seizure banner that says they were confiscated.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerability, rated a CVSS score of 9.4, enables "attackers to potentially execute arbitrary commands with root privileges" by exploiting a hidden URL parameter, application security firm Noma said in a.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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📔 Syncjacking Attack Enables Full Browser and Device Takeover 📔

SquareX researchers warn that browser syncjacking could lead to full browser and device hijacking.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 DeepSeek Exposed Database Leaks Sensitive Data 📔

Researchers at Wiz uncovered a publicly accessible database belonging to Chinese GenAI provider DeepSeek that leaked sensitive data, including chat history.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🦅 DeepSeek’s Growing Influence Sparks a Surge in Frauds and Phishing Attacks 🦅

Overview DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that has developed opensource large language models LLMs. In January 2025, DeepSeek launched its first free chatbot app, DeepSeek AI Assistant, which rapidly became the most downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States, surpassing even OpenAIs ChatGPT. However, with rapid growth comes new riskscybercriminals are exploiting DeepSeeks reputation through phishing campaigns, fake investment scams, and malware disguised as DeepSeek. This analysis seeks to explore recent incidents where Threat Actors TAs have impersonated DeepSeek to target users, highlighting their tactics and how readers can secure themselves accordingly. Recently, Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs CRIL identified multiple suspicious...

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🕵️‍♂️ New Jailbreaks Allow Users to Manipulate GitHub Copilot 🕵️‍♂️

Whether by intercepting its traffic or just giving it a little nudge, GitHub's AI assistant can be made to do malicious things it isn't supposed to.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🖋️ Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations 🖋️

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence AI technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. "Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities," Google Threat.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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📔 Attackers Increase Use of HTTP Clients for Account Takeovers 📔

HTTP client tools used to compromise Microsoft 365 environments with 78 of tenants targeted in 2024.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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♟️ Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud ♟️

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named "Funnull" highlights a persistent whacamole problem facing cloud services.

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🔗 Via "Krebs on Security"

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📔 Google Blocked 2.36 Million Policy-Violating Apps 📔

Google Play blocked 2.36 million policyviolating apps and banned 158,000 harmful developer accounts in 2024.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🦿 DeepSeek Locked Down Public Database Access That Exposed Chat History 🦿

Research Firm Wiz Research began investigating DeepSeek soon after its generative AI took the tech world by storm.

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🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

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🕵️‍♂️ Healthcare Sector Charts 2 More Ransomware Attacks 🕵️‍♂️

No ransomware groups have yet to claim responsibility for either attack, and both institutions have yet to reveal what may have been stolen.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🖋️ Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft 🖋️

Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information. The list of identified flaws, which impact versions 8.x of the software, is below CVE202522218 CVSS score 8.5 A malicious actor with View Only Admin.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🦅 Dark Web Activity January 2025: A New Hacktivist Group Emerges 🦅

Overview Cyble dark web researchers investigated more than 250 dark web claims by threat actors in January 2025, with more than a quarter of those targeting U.S.based organizations. Of threat actors TAs on the dark web targeting U.S. organizations during the month, 15 were ransomware groups claiming successful attacks or selling data from those attacks. Ransomware group claims accounted for about 40 of the Cyble investigations. Most of the investigations examined threat actors claiming to be selling data stolen from organizations, or selling access to those organizations networks. Several investigations focused on cyberattacks orchestrated by hacktivist groups including a new Russian threat group identified here for the first time. Sector 16 Teams Up With Russian Hackti...

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📔 DeepSeek's Flagship AI Model Under Fire for Security Vulnerabilities 📔

Cyber reports exposed major security flaws in DeepSeeks R1 LLM.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 International Operation Dismantles Cracked and Nulled Cybercrime Hubs 📔

A global law enforcement operation has taken down infrastructure used by Cracked.io and Nulled.io, which provide cybercriminal tools and services.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🦅 Cyble’s Weekly Vulnerability Update: Critical SonicWall Zero-Day and Exploited Flaws Discovered 🦅

Overview Cybles weekly vulnerability insights to clients cover key vulnerabilities discovered between January 22 and January 28, 2025. The findings highlight a range of vulnerabilities across various platforms, including critical issues that are already being actively exploited. Notably, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA added two vulnerabilities to their Known Exploited Vulnerability KEV catalog this week. Among these, the zeroday vulnerability CVE202523006 stands out as a critical threat affecting SonicWalls SMA1000 appliances. In this weeks analysis, Cyble delves into multiple vulnerabilities across widely used software tools and plugins, with particular attention to SimpleHelp remote support software, Ivantis Cloud Services Appliance, and issues wit...

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📢 Two of the world's largest cyber crime forums knocked offline 📢

Two cyber crime forums, Cracked and Nulled, have been taken down as part of a police operation involving international partners.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Data sovereignty a growing priority for UK enterprises 📢

Many firms view data sovereignty as simply a compliance issue.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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🧠 AI decision-making: Where do businesses draw the line? 🧠

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. IBM Training Manual, 1979 Artificial intelligence AI adoption is on the rise. According to the IBM Global AI Adoption Index 2023, 42 of enterprises have actively deployed AI, and 40 are experimenting with the technology. Of those using The post AI decisionmaking Where do businesses draw the line? appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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🔗 Via "Security Intelligence"

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🖋️ CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Food and Drug Administration FDA have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE20250626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale of 10.0. The flaw, alongside two other issues, was reported to CISA.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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