Cryptika Cybersecurity News

APT37, the North Korean-aligned threat actor also known as ScarCruft, Ruby Sleet, and Velvet Chollima, has expanded its arsenal with sophisticated new malware targeting Windows systems. Active since 2012, the group primarily focuses on South Korean individuals connected to the …

Cybersecurity researchers began tracking a sophisticated campaign in the closing months of 2024, targeting both government and corporate networks across multiple continents. The threat actors behind this operation, known colloquially as Salt Typhoon and UNC4841, leveraged overlapping infrastructure and shared …

Elastic has disclosed a security incident stemming from a third-party breach at Salesloft Drift, which resulted in unauthorized access to an internal email account containing valid credentials. While the company’s core Salesforce environment was not impacted, the incident exposed sensitive …

A sophisticated new cybercrime toolkit named SpamGPT is enabling hackers to launch massive and highly effective phishing campaigns by combining artificial intelligence with the capabilities of professional email marketing platforms. Marketed on the dark web as a “spam-as-a-service” platform, SpamGPT …

A new technique to exploit a complex use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the Linux kernel successfully bypasses modern security mitigations to gain root privileges. The method targets CVE-2024-50264, a difficult-to-exploit race condition bug in the AF_VSOCK subsystem that was recognized with a Pwnie …

Dynatrace has confirmed it was impacted by a third-party data breach originating from the Salesloft Drift application, resulting in unauthorized access to customer business contact information stored in its Salesforce CRM. The company confirmed that the incident was limited to …

In the largest supply chain attack, hackers compromised 18 popular npm packages, which together account for over two billion downloads per week. The attack, which began on September 8th, involved injecting malicious code designed to steal cryptocurrency from users. The …

A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Progress OpenEdge, a platform for developing and deploying business applications. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-7388, allows for remote code execution (RCE) and affects multiple versions of the software, potentially enabling attackers to …

A severe vulnerability in Windows Defender’s update process allows attackers with administrator privileges to disable the security service and manipulate its core files. The technique, which leverages a flaw in how Defender selects its execution folder, can be carried out …