According to Cyfirma, a malicious Android app called SpyLend was available on the official Google Play Store for some time and has been downloaded from there more than 100,000 times. The malware known as SpyLoan (i.e. predatory loan app) was disguised as the legitimate Finance Simplified app used to apply for loans in India.

According to Juniper Threat Labs , a new JavaScript obfuscation technique that uses invisible Unicode characters was used in a phishing attack targeting Political Action Committee (PAC) affiliates.

Microsoft patched a severe privilege escalation vulnerability in Power Pages used by hackers as a 0-day.

OpenSSH fixed two vulnerabilities that could result in MiTM and denial of service (DoS) attacks. Interestingly, one of these bugs appeared in the code more than 10 years ago.

The Enhanced Protection mode in Google Chrome has been updated. Now it uses AI to protect users from dangerous sites, downloads, and extensions in real time.

Following the introduction of international sanctions against Zservers, Russian ‘bulletproof’ hosting services provider, the Dutch National Police (Politie) shut down and seized 127 servers belonging to Zservers/XHost.

Security experts report that more than 12,000 GFI Kerio Control firewall instances remain vulnerable to the critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-52875, which was fixed back in December 2024.