Cybersecurity News | Daily Recap [29 Sep 2025]

The daily recap covers nation-state espionage, ransomware, data breaches, AI-driven security trends, and notable campaigns, including a SonicWall SSL VPN MFA bypass tied to CVE-2024-40766 and a Harrods breach via a third-party supplier. It also highlights AI-enabled phishing with obfuscated SVG payloads, malvertising campaigns distributing spyware, Medusa exfiltration from Comcast, and broader activity from RedNovember and COLDRIVER, with impacts on multiple sectors. #SonicWall #Harrods #Medusa #RedNovember #COLDRIVER #TradingView

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North Korea’s Fake Recruiters Feed Stolen Data to IT Workers

The DeceptiveDevelopment campaign by North Korean threat actors involves stealing developer identities and distributing malware through fake job offers, primarily targeting cryptocurrency developers. These operations are closely linked to North Korea’s WageMole network, aiming at financial theft and identity fraud. #DeceptiveDevelopment #WageMole #North Korea #cryptocurrency #cyberespionage…

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Vane Viper Generates 1 Trillion DNS Queries to Power Global Malware and Ad Fraud Network

Vane Viper is a malicious adtech actor involved in widespread malvertising, ad fraud, and cyber threats using complex infrastructure and shell companies. Its operations have compromised hundreds of thousands of websites, facilitating malware distribution, phishing, and social engineering campaigns. #VaneViper #PropellerAds #Malvertising #CyberThreats…

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DeceptiveDevelopment: From primitive crypto theft to sophisticated AI-based deception

DeceptiveDevelopment is a North Korea-aligned group using sophisticated social engineering—fake recruiter profiles and the ClickFix technique—to deliver multiplatform malware like BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, WeaselStore, TsunamiKit, Tropidoor, and AkdoorTea targeting developers and crypto-related projects. Research links their operations to North Korean IT worker fraud campaigns (WageMole), showing shared tools, stolen identities, and operational overlap between malware-driven campaigns and employment-fraud schemes. #DeceptiveDevelopment #TsunamiKit

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North Korean Hackers Use New AkdoorTea Backdoor to Target Global Crypto Developers

This report details a North Korea-linked campaign called Contagious Interview, which uses multi-platform malware and social engineering tactics to target cryptocurrency developers globally. The campaign involves fake job offers and malicious programming exercises to deliver malware like BeaverTail, WeaselStore, Tropidoor, and AkdoorTea, linked to Lazarus Group tools. #ContagiousInterview #LazarusGroup…

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DeerStealer Malware Campaign: Stealth, Persistence, and Rootkit-Like Capabilities

DeerStealer is a multi-stage information-stealing malware distributed via ZIP archives and sold/support­ed on dark-web forums and Telegram, using signed binaries, legitimate DLLs, and decoy installers to evade detection and maintain long-term persistence. It harvests a wide range of data and exfiltrates it to shifting C2 domains such as telluricaphelion[.]com and loadinnnhr[.]today. #DeerStealer #telluricaphelion[.]com

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APT28’s BeardShell Campaign: Steganography, Cloud Abuse, and Persistent Espionage

This article details APT28’s advanced cyber-espionage activities targeting Ukrainian military networks in 2025, utilizing sophisticated infection chains and cloud-based C2 channels. The campaign showcases innovative techniques such as steganography and malicious use of legitimate cloud services to evade detection. #APT28 #CovenantFramework…

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Apple backports zero-day patches to older iPhones and iPads

Apple has released security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) affecting older iPhones and iPads, which was exploited in highly sophisticated targeted attacks. The flaw involves an out-of-bounds write in the Image I/O framework, leading to potential remote code execution; Apple and WhatsApp have warned about ongoing exploitation. #CVE202543300 #ImageIO #targetedattacks #AppleSecurity

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