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Kaspersky Names Three Hacking Crews Going After Russian Companies

Kaspersky says NightEagle, Hacking Cat and Toy Ghouls are running separate campaigns against Russian firms, with NightEagle showing fresh persistence tricks.

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One Researcher Just Published Working Hacks Against CrowdStrike, Avast, and Nvidia

A prolific security researcher dropped three zero-day exploits in a single week, targeting software that millions of people and businesses rely on to stay safe.

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Iranian Hackers Nimbus Manticore Target Mac and Linux With Fake Job Tests

Kaspersky says the state-linked crew is now posing as recruiters and hiding remote-access malware inside coding challenges sent to job hunters.

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Researcher Drops 'HardBreacher' Exploit for Kaspersky Security Software

A bug-hunter who has repeatedly embarrassed Microsoft now has Kaspersky in the crosshairs, releasing a proof-of-concept exploit that can hand an attacker near-total control of a Windows machine running Kaspersky Endpoint Security.

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ValleyRAT Malware Hides Inside Signed Chinese Wallpaper App to Bypass Antivirus

Silver Fox is smuggling the ValleyRAT backdoor onto Windows PCs by wrapping it around QN Wallpaper, a legitimate signed program many users have already told their antivirus to trust.

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New Android malware slips into cars through the dashboard's own update system

Kaspersky says the DoFun head unit malware turns infected vehicles into ad-fraud engines and proxy relays for cybercrime.

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Iranian Hackers Refine 'Cavern' Toolkit to Hide Inside Google and DNS Traffic

Kaspersky says the Cav3rn framework, aimed at Israeli targets, now hides its commands inside services most networks trust by default.

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Chinese Hacking Group Hides Backdoor Behind a Signed Windows Rootkit

Kaspersky researchers say the Mustang Panda crew paired an updated CoolClient backdoor with a kernel-level cloaking tool, striking targets in Myanmar and Pakistan.

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Russian hacktivists hijack TrueConf video servers to push booby-trapped installers

Kaspersky says the Head Mare group exploited two unpatched flaws in TrueConf conferencing servers to swap the real client installer for one carrying the PhantomCore backdoor.

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Hackers hijack Russian security tool ViPNet to spy on government agencies

A campaign called HelloNet has been slipping malicious files into ViPNet updates since May, hitting Russian ministries, energy firms and transport operators.

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GoSerpent: A New Espionage Tool Quietly Targeting Southeast Asian Governments

Kaspersky says the previously unseen malware has been hitting government and diplomatic offices across the region since late 2025, with signs pointing to long-term spying rather than smash-and-grab theft.

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Meet BusySnake: The Stealthy Malware Quietly Raiding Government Networks

A newly discovered hacking group is hitting government offices and critical services across three countries with a capable piece of spy software. Here is what it does and who is at risk.

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Armored Likho: the newly-named hacking crew hitting power grids and government offices

Russian security firm Kaspersky says the group mixes espionage against big institutions with money-driven attacks on ordinary people.

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Microsoft restores missing Copilot buttons in Classic Outlook

A licensing bug wiped the AI assistant's buttons from the desktop email client. Microsoft says a June 29 fix has now landed.

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ToddyCat's New Umbrij Malware Pulls Gmail Straight From Google's API

Kaspersky ties the China-nexus crew to a Gmail-siphoning tool that skips the browser and talks to Google directly.

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