GhostPoster malware hid inside 17 Firefox add-ons, abusing logo files to hijack links, inject tracking code, and run ad fraud.
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France arrests suspect tied to cyberattack on Interior Ministry
French authorities arrested a 22-year-old suspect on Tuesday for a cyberattack that targeted France’s Ministry of the Interior earlier this month.
In a statement issued by Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, officials said the suspected hacker was arrested on December 17, 2025, as part of an investigation into the attack.
“A person was arrested on December 17, 2025, as part of the investigation opened by the cybercrime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office, on charges including unauthorized access to an automated personal data processing system implemented by the State, committed by an organized group, following the cyberattack against the Ministry of the Interior,” reads the statement translated into English.
Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts
Amazon’s AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM).
The operation started on November 2nd and employed a persistence mechanism that extended mining operations and hindered incident responders.
The threat actor used a Docker Hub image that was created at the end of October and had more than 100,000 pulls.
WhatsApp device linking abused in account hijacking attacks
Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign dubbed GhostPairing.
This type of attack does not require any authentication, as the victim is tricked into linking the attacker’s browser to a WhatsApp device.
By doing so, threat actors gain access to the full conversation history and shared media, and may leverage information to impersonate users or commit fraud.
Sonicwall warns of new SMA1000 zero-day exploited in attacks
SonicWall warned customers today to patch a vulnerability in the SonicWall SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC) that was chained in zero-day attacks to escalate privileges.
According to SonicWall, this medium-severity local privilege escalation security flaw (CVE-2025–40602) was reported by Clément Lecigne and Zander Work of the Google Threat Intelligence Group, and doesn’t affect SSL-VPN running on SonicWall firewalls.
“SonicWall PSIRT strongly advises users of the SMA1000 product to upgrade to the latest hotfix release version to address the vulnerability,” the company said in a Wednesday advisory.
Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial neuron capable of mimicking different parts of the brain
Artificial neurons – tiny electronic circuits that replicate the way brain cells communicate – lie at the heart of neuromorphic computing, a field aiming to bring human-like intelligence to machines.
Despite rapid progress, today’s artificial neurons can only perform fixed tasks, each serving a narrow role. Thousands must be combined to replicate simple brain functions – a costly, energy-hungry process compared with the brain’s effortless adaptability.
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