Europol Arrests XSS Forum Admin in Kyiv After 12-Year Run Operating Cybercrime Marketplace
Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is (formerly DaMaGeLaB), a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrest, which took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 222, 2025, was led by the French Police and Paris Prosecutor,...
Hackers Deploy Stealth Backdoor in WordPress Mu-Plugins to Maintain Admin Access
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy backdoor concealed within the “mu-plugins” directory in WordPress sites to grant threat actors persistent access and allow them to perform arbitrary actions. Must-use plugins (aka mu-plugins) are...
Threat Actor Mimo Targets Magento and Docker to Deploy Crypto Miners and Proxyware
The threat actor behind the exploitation of vulnerable Craft Content Management System (CMS) instances has shifted its tactics to target Magento CMS and misconfigured Docker instances. The activity has been attributed to a threat actor tracked as Mimo (aka Hezb),...
New Coyote Malware Variant Exploits Windows UI Automation to Steal Banking Credentials
The Windows banking trojan known as Coyote has become the first known malware strain to exploit the Windows accessibility framework called UI Automation (UIA) to harvest sensitive information. “The new Coyote variant is targeting Brazilian users, and uses UIA to...
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