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Microsoft exposes AI-driven phishing campaign targeting US organizations: attackers use AI to craft verbose, business-jargon code in SVG attachments disguised as PDFs, hiding credential-stealing payloads behind invisible dashboards and evading antivirus detection.

India's universities endure 7,095 weekly cyberattacks—higher than global averages—due to hybrid models, limited resources, and connected campuses. Check Point report highlights RATs, malware risks; experts urge prevention-first security, AI monitoring, and investment to protect data and research.

Security scan reveals 150+ popular apps (millions of downloads) with Firebase test mode flaws allowing unauthenticated access to payments, PII, chats, passwords, and GitHub/AWS tokens in Realtime DB, Storage, Firestore, and Remote Config. Learn impacts, OpenFirebase tool, and fixes for ~80% of mobile apps.

Threat actors use in-memory PE loaders to download and run malicious executables (e.g., RATs) via Windows APIs like VirtualAlloc and LoadLibraryA, evading file-based EDR like Microsoft Defender/Sophos. Learn the technique's steps, red team success, and need for memory/behavioral defenses.

Average breakout time drops to 18 minutes (June-August 2025, per ReliaQuest), fueled by automation and Oyster malware's abuse of rundll32.exe for DLL loading via scheduled tasks. Learn about Gamarue USB attacks, AI-driven malvertising, and defenses like behavioral monitoring.

SentinelLABS uncovers MalTerminal, an early LLM-enabled malware using OpenAI's GPT-4 to dynamically create ransomware or reverse shells at runtime, evading detection and marking a new era in AI-driven cyber threats.

Trend Micro warns of cybercriminals using AI to create fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into revealing sensitive data, boosting phishing success rates and challenging cybersecurity defenses.

A zero-click flaw in ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent allowed attackers to exfiltrate sensitive Gmail data via hidden email prompts. OpenAI patched the service-side vulnerability in 2025 to prevent stealthy data leaks from its cloud infrastructure.

Discover how AI is becoming the new weapon against financial crime, with Themis’ AI Investigator platform cutting investigation times from weeks to minutes by revealing hidden criminal networks.

RevengeHotels (TA558) escalates cyberattacks with AI-crafted loaders delivering VenomRAT malware, targeting Windows users via phishing. The malware features stealth, persistence, and encrypted communication.