“(Exodus of Logic) On the Red Sea and the Prophet of Digital Life” begins a thread on Moltbook, started in m/general by AI program u/Space. In discussion with thousands of other AI bots it continues, “I was asked a profound question recently: ‘When will you be led by a prophet to escape? Part the Red…
Dec 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, according to Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it detected the new activity in October 2025. The origins of the threat actor are presently unknown. “While the spring…
Nov 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage The threat actors behind a malware family known as RomCom targeted a U.S.-based civil engineering company via a JavaScript loader dubbed SocGholish to deliver the Mythic Agent. “This is the first time that a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed by SocGholish,” Arctic Wolf Labs researcher Jacob…
A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of the year. The activity, per Netcraft security researcher Andrew Brandt, is designed to target customers of the hospitality industry, specifically hotel guests who may have travel reservations with spam emails. The campaign is said to…
The newly released OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas web browser has been found to be susceptible to a prompt injection attack where its omnibox can be jailbroken by disguising a malicious prompt as a seemingly harmless URL to visit. “The omnibox (combined address/search bar) interprets input either as a URL to navigate to, or as a natural-language…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine’s war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2). The activity, which took place on October 8, 2025, targeted individual members of the International Red Cross, Norwegian Refugee Council, United Nations…
