IT Security Weekend Catch Up – August 24, 2025

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24.08.2025 | 14:07

IT Security Weekend Catch Up – August 24, 2025
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IT Security Weekend Catch Up – August 24, 2025

Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We're here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For the less technical

  1. UK government walks back controversial Apple ‘back door’ demand after Trump administration pressure
  2. Mobile phishers target brokerage accounts in ‘ramp and dump’ cashout scheme
  3. New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
  4. SIM-swapper, Scattered Spider hacker gets 10
  5. Oregon man charged with administering “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire Botnet
  6. Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

For the more technical

  1. Latest data from the advanced in-the-wild malware test - July 2025
  2. TCC bypass in Visual Studio Code via misconfigured Node fuses
  3. Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique
  4. Help TDS and its malicious plugins redirect thousands of sites to tech support scams
  5. SpyVPN: The Google-featured VPN that secretly captures your screen
  6. Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
  7. Cybercriminals abuse AI website creation app for phishing
  8. Can AI weaponize new CVEs in under 15 minutes?
  9. A comprehensive analysis of HijackLoader and its infection chain
  10. Supply chain risk in Python: termncolor and colorinal explained
  11. RustyPages malware - technical analysis
  12. The silent, fileless threat of VShell
  13. Fake Telegram Premium site distributes new Lumma Stealer variant
  14. Behind the curtain: How Lumma affiliates operate
  15. Noodlophile stealer evolves: Targeted copyright phishing hits enterprises with social media footprints
  16. Detailed analysis of the stealer-traffer ecosystem
  17. QuirkyLoader - A new malware loader delivering infostealers and RATs
  18. Hunt.io exposes and analyzes ERMAC V3.0 banking trojan full source code leak
  19. PhantomCard: New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil
  20. Salty 2FA: Undetected PhaaS from Storm-1575 hitting US and EU industries
  21. Warlock: From SharePoint vulnerability exploit to enterprise ransomware
  22. Dissecting PipeMagic: Inside the architecture of a modular backdoor framework
  23. A cereal offender: Analyzing the CORNFLAKE.V3 backdoor
  24. Russian state-sponsored espionage group Static Tundra compromises unpatched end-of-life network devices
  25. UAC-0057 keeps applying pressure on Ukraine and Poland
  26. APT MuddyWater deploys multi-stage phishing to target CFOs
  27. Ghost-tapping and the Chinese cybercriminal retail fraud ecosystem
  28. The coordinated embassy hunt: Unmasking the DPRK-linked GitHub C2 espionage campaign
  29. Analysis of the GFW's unconditional port 443 block on August 20, 2025

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Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! For the less technical UK government walks back controversial Apple ‘back door’ demand after Trump administration pressu 2025-08-24T14:07:05+02:00

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