Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them

In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary can infiltrate organizations, move laterally and evade detection. eCrime groups like SCATTERED SPIDER and North Korea-nexus adversaries such as FAMOUS

Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service

German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also alleged to have participated in sabotage operations as well as taking pictures of military installations with […]

Malicious Obfuscated NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems. The heavily obfuscated package, named ethereumvulncontracthandler, was published to npm on December 18, 2024, by a […]

New « DoubleClickjacking » Exploit Bypasses Clickjacking Protections on Major Websites

Threat hunters have disclosed a new « widespread timing-based vulnerability class » that leverages a double-click sequence to facilitate clickjacking attacks and account takeovers in almost all major websites. The technique has been codenamed DoubleClickjacking by security researcher Paulos Yibelo. « Instead of relying on a single click, it takes advantage of a double-click sequence, » Yibelo said.