Mustang Panda Uses Signed Kernel-Mode Rootkit to Load TONESHELL Backdoor
The Chinese hacking group known as Mustang Panda has leveraged a previously undocumented kernel-mode rootkit driver to deliver a new variant of backdoor dubbed TONESHELL in a cyber attack detected in mid-2025 targeting an unspecified entity in Asia. The findings come...
⚡ 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...
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...
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...
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