Popular AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) often fail to provide accurate information on any topic, but researchers expect threat actors to ramp up their efforts to get them to spew out information that may benefit them, such as phishi…
A vulnerability in the Catwatchful spyware allowed a security researcher to retrieve the usernames and passwords of over 62,000 accounts.
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SentinelLabs uncovers NimDoor, new North Korea-aligned macOS malware targeting Web3 and crypto firms. Exploits Nim, AppleScript, and steals Keychain, browser, shell, and Telegram data.
SentinelOne says the fake Zoom update scam delivers ‘NimDoor’, a rare Nim-compiled backdoor.
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The weaponization of Windows shortcut (LNK) files for malware distribution has increased by an astounding 50%, according to telemetry data, with dangerous samples rising from 21,098 in 2023 to 68,392 in 2024. These LNK files, typically used as virtual …
Gamaredon, a Russia-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group attributed by Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) to the FSB’s 18th Center of Information Security, has exclusively targeted Ukrainian governmental institutions throughout 2024, abandoning…
A sophisticated campaign by North Korean (DPRK)-aligned threat actors targeting Web3 and cryptocurrency businesses has been uncovered, showcasing an alarming evolution in macOS malware tactics. According to detailed analysis by SentinelLABS, alongside …
U.S. Treasury sanctions Russia-based Aeza Group and affiliates for aiding cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Russia-based Aeza Group for aiding global cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. A bulletproof hosting service is a type of internet hosting provider that knowingly allows cybercriminals to host malicious content […]
OX Research conducted a ground-breaking study in May and June 2025 that revealed concerning security flaws in the extension verification procedures of some of the most popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as Visual Studio Code (VSCo…
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops.
Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, resulting in 20% performance boost.
After discussion between Intel and Canonical’s security teams, we are in agreement that Spectre no longer needs to be mitigated for the GPU at the Compute Runtime level. At this point, Spectre has been mitigated in the kernel, and a clear warning from the Compute Runtime build serves as a notification for those running modified kernels without those patches. For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff…