Cybersecurity News | Daily Recap [08 Dec 2025]

Cybersecurity News | Daily Recap [08 Dec 2025]

Daily Recap, Researchers link three hacking groups exploiting two vulnerabilities to campaigns with ties to China, highlighting widespread exploitation paths and potential state involvement. UTA0355 stole Microsoft 365 OAuth tokens via fake security-conference lures and WhatsApp support social engineering, while Android families FvncBot, SeedSnatcher, and an upgraded ClayRat add stronger data-theft features, alongside NFCGate-based banking malware and breaches at Cl0p and Tri-Century Eye Care. #China #UTA0355

Threat Actors & APTs

  • Researchers link three hacking groups exploiting two vulnerabilities to campaigns with ties to China, highlighting widespread exploitation paths – China Hacks
  • UTA0355 stole Microsoft 365 OAuth tokens via fake security-conference lures and WhatsApp support social engineering – UTA0355
  • Google and Apple warn of sophisticated state-linked surveillance threats targeting users worldwide – State Surveillance

Malware & Cybercrime

  • New Android families FvncBot, SeedSnatcher and an upgraded ClayRat add stronger data-theft features targeting banking, crypto and personal data – Android Malware
  • Russian police dismantled a bank-account hacking gang that used NFCGate-based malware to harvest and exploit contactless payment data – NFCGate Gang

Breaches & Ransomware

  • Barts Health confirms a data breach caused by Cl0p ransomware exploiting an Oracle vulnerability – Cl0p Breach
  • Tri-Century Eye Care suffered a data breach impacting approximately 200,000 individuals – Tri-Century Breach

AI & Defense

  • AI-driven defense advances as Agentic BAS turns threat headlines into defense strategies while Resemble AI raises $13M to build AI threat-detection capabilities – Agentic BAS, Resemble AI
  • UK intelligence warns that AI prompt-injection attacks may never fully disappear, posing long-term risks to AI systems – Prompt Injection
  • Retailers are urged to harden systems and monitoring ahead of peak season to mitigate increased cyber risk during the busiest time of year – Retailer Prep

Policy & Industry

  • Portugal updated its cybercrime law to exempt security researchers acting in good faith from criminal liability under strict conditions, aligning with similar moves in Germany and the USPortugal Law
  • Keith McCammon, CISO and co-founder at Red Canary, discusses trends in detection, response and security operations in a new CISO interview – CISO Talk

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