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Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days. Happily, comeuppance was a strong theme running through our coverage in 2025, with a primary focus on entities that enabled complex and globally-dispersed cybercrime services.

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Top US Accounting Firm Sax Discloses 2024 Data Breach Impacting 220,000

It took Sax well over a year to complete its investigation after detecting hackers on its network. The post Top US Accounting Firm Sax Discloses 2024 Data Breach Impacting 220,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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How 2025 Became The Year Of The Cyberattack For British Businesses

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 29, 2025 –Read the full story in The Independent As 2025 winds down, business leaders and executives will feel it has been a particularly expensive year as the cost of employment The post How 2025 Became The Year Of The Cyberattack For British Businesses appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: MongoDB Attacks, Wallet Breaches, Android Spyware, Insider Crime & More

Last week’s cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day behave in unexpected ways. Old flaws resurfaced. New ones were used almost immediately. A common theme ran through it all in 2025. Attackers moved faster than fixes. Access meant for work, updates, or support kept getting abused. And damage did not

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Fortinet Warns of New Attacks Exploiting Old Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2020-12812, the exploited FortiOS flaw allows threat actors to bypass two-factor authentication. The post Fortinet Warns of New Attacks Exploiting Old Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Coupang to Issue $1.17 Billion in Vouchers Over Data Breach

The ecommerce giant will provide purchase vouchers to the 33.7 million individuals impacted by the incident. The post Coupang to Issue $1.17 Billion in Vouchers Over Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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22 Million Affected by Aflac Data Breach

Hackers stole names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ID numbers, and medical and health insurance information from Aflac’s systems. The post 22 Million Affected by Aflac Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Infostealer Malware Delivered in EmEditor Supply Chain Attack

The ‘download’ button on the official EmEditor website served a malicious installer. The post Infostealer Malware Delivered in EmEditor Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 Under Active Exploitation Worldwide

A recently disclosed security vulnerability in MongoDB has come under active exploitation in the wild, with over 87,000 potentially susceptible instances identified across the world. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), which allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely leak sensitive data from the MongoDB server memory. It has been codenamed MongoBleed. "A flaw

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27 Malicious npm Packages Used as Phishing Infrastructure to Steal Login Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "sustained and targeted" spear-phishing campaign that has published over two dozen packages to the npm registry to facilitate credential theft. The activity, which involved uploading 27 npm packages from six different npm aliases, has primarily targeted sales and commercial personnel at critical

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Traditional Security Frameworks Leave Organizations Exposed to AI-Specific Attack Vectors

In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized extraction of user data from AI memory. The result: 23.77 million secrets were leaked through AI

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New MongoDB Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Uninitialized Memory

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has been described as a case of improper handling of length parameter inconsistency, which arises when a program fails to appropriately tackle scenarios where a length field is inconsistent with the

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Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Breach Caused $7 Million Crypto Loss via Malicious Code

Trust Wallet is urging users to update its Google Chrome extension to the latest version following what it described as a "security incident" that led to the loss of approximately $7 million. The issue, the multi‑chain, non‑custodial cryptocurrency wallet service said, impacts version 2.68. The extension has about one million users, according to the Chrome Web Store listing. Users are advised to

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China-Linked Evasive Panda Ran DNS Poisoning Campaign to Deliver MgBot Malware

A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System (DNS) requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting victims in Türkiye, China, and India. The activity, Kaspersky said, was observed between November 2022 and November 2024. It has been linked to a

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Critical LangChain Core Vulnerability Exposes Secrets via Serialization Injection

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in LangChain Core that could be exploited by an attacker to steal sensitive secrets and even influence large language model (LLM) responses through prompt injection. LangChain Core (i.e., langchain-core) is a core Python package that's part of the LangChain ecosystem, providing the core interfaces and model-agnostic abstractions for building

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‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting itRussia is scrambling to rein in the country’s sprawling illicit market for leaked personal data, a shadowy ecosystem long exploited by investigative journalists, police and criminal groups.For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called probiv market – a term derived from the verb “to pierce” or “to punch into a search bar” – has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials, traffic police, bank employees and low-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases. Continue reading...

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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Stealth Loaders, AI Chatbot Flaws AI Exploits, Docker Hack, and 15 More Stories

It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted apps, and even AI assistants. What used to feel like clear-cut “hacker stories” now looks more like a mirror of the systems we all use. This week’s findings show a pattern: precision, patience, and persuasion. The

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LastPass 2022 Breach Led to Years-Long Cryptocurrency Thefts, TRM Labs Finds

The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master passwords to crack them open and drain cryptocurrency assets as recently as late 2025, according to new findings from TRM Labs. The blockchain intelligence firm said evidence points to the involvement of Russian cybercriminal actors in the activity, with one of the

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Fortinet Warns of Active Exploitation of FortiOS SSL VPN 2FA Bypass Vulnerability

Fortinet on Wednesday said it observed "recent abuse" of a five-year-old security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN in the wild under certain configurations. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2020-12812 (CVSS score: 5.2), an improper authentication vulnerability in SSL VPN in FortiOS that could allow a user to log in successfully without being prompted for the second factor of authentication if the

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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Digiever NVR Vulnerability Allowing Remote Code Execution

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a security flaw impacting Digiever DS-2105 Pro network video recorders (NVRs) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-52163 (CVSS score: 8.8), relates to a case of command injection that allows post-authentication remote code