👀 UPDATE: Android just got its own Lockdown Mode.

• Tamper-proof Intrusion Logging
• Scam alerts during banking calls
• Lock screen OTP protection
• Upgraded app threat detection

🔒 Rolling out on Android 11+ | Full launch this summer.

📲 What’s new & how it protects you: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/google-rolls-out-on-device-ai.html

🚨 Invoice Email? Think Twice.

A stealthy phishing campaign is hitting Windows users in Latin America—disguised as financial docs, but dropping Horabot malware instead.

👀 Hijacks inboxes
📩 Spreads via Outlook
💰 Targets banking data

🔗 Full details here → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/horabot-malware-targets-6-latin.html

🚨 Drone supply chains under attack!

Earth Ammit, a likely China-linked group, ran two stealthy ops—VENOM & TIDRONE—to breach drone and defense industries in Taiwan & South Korea.

They’re not hitting targets directly. They’re hijacking the software vendors you trust.

🔗 Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/earth-ammit-breached-drone-supply.html

🔥 Cyber attacks are up. Skills still lag.

Verizon’s 2025 DBIR reports an 18% jump in breaches, with vuln exploitation up 34% YoY. Yet most orgs rely too much on tools.

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🚨 14,000+ fake URLs.

A massive phishing campaign—Meta Mirage—is hijacking Meta Business Suite users with scarily real fake alerts.

◆︎ 78% of malicious links went unblocked by browsers.
◆︎ Hosted on trusted platforms like GitHub & Firebase.
◆︎ Looks legit. Hits hard. You won’t see it coming.

🔐 CTM360 just dropped the full intel: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/ctm360-identifies-surge-in-phishing.html

🚨 $8.4B in shadow deals—run from Telegram.

A Chinese-language black market called Xinbi Guarantee quietly moved billions in crypto since 2022.

What’s inside? Think: stolen data, fake IDs, laundering services—and more.

👀 The full story is darker than you think: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/xinbi-telegram-market-tied-to-84b-in.html

🔥 Two ransomware gangs—BianLian and RansomExx—are now exploiting a critical SAP flaw (CVE-2025-31324).

They’re not alone. Nation-state hackers are in the mix too.

One exploit. Full system access.

🔗 Read the full breakdown: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/bianlian-and-ransomexx-exploit-sap.html

🛑 Actively Exploited Samsung Flaw Hits Critical Alert!

PoC dropped. Exploits followed fast.

A 9.8 CVSS bug in Samsung’s MagicINFO 9 Server (CVE-2025-4632) is being used in the wild—even to deploy Mirai malware.

Read → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/samsung-patches-cve-2025-4632-used-to.html

🚨 Warning: A new high-severity Google Chrome flaw is being actively exploited in the wild.

CVE-2025-4664 allows attackers to steal sensitive data like account credentials via crafted HTML + image traps.

It affects Chrome < 136.0.7103.113 — and likely other Chromium-based browsers.

🔗 Details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/new-chrome-vulnerability-enables-cross.html

🚨 One email. One click. Full inbox compromise.

APT28 is back with Operation RoundPress, exploiting zero-days in MDaemon, Roundcube, Zimbra & Horde to steal emails from govs, defense orgs & academics across Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece & more.

🔗 Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/russia-linked-apt28-exploited-mdaemon.html

🚨 2,000+ devs downloaded this npm package... and it was hiding malware

A seemingly harmless utility used Google Calendar as a stealth command link.

—Unicode tricks
—Multi-stage payloads
—Real downloads
—The kicker? It’s still live

Read here: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-npm-package-leverages-unicode.html

🔥 Cybercriminals are now using Microsoft’s own Quick Assist tool to deploy ransomware like Black Basta. And with Ransomware-as-a-Service, anyone can launch an attack.

No BCDR? You’re gambling your business.

Learn 5 must-have recovery moves now → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/top-5-bcdr-capabilities-for-ransomware-defense.html

👀 Your last pen test passed. So why was there still a breach?

Compliance checks a box. Attackers exploit what happens next. Verizon’s 2025 report shows a 34% spike in exploited vulnerabilities — most after audits.

🔁 It’s time to move beyond point-in-time testing.
Only continuous pen testing + EASM reveals what attackers find first.

👉 See what your strategy might be missing: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/pen-testing-for-compliance-only-its.html

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🚨 Coinbase insider breach exposed. Hackers bribed support agents to steal user data—then tried to extort $20M.

🧠 No crypto lost, but names, emails, and IDs were leaked.
🛡️ Coinbase is reimbursing victims + offering a $20M reward.

🔗 Full story → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/coinbase-agents-bribed-data-of-1-users.html

👀 Meta vs. Europe—Round 2

Starting May 27, Meta plans to train its AI using Facebook & Instagram user data across the E.U.—without asking for consent.

Privacy watchdog noyb says it’s illegal. A class action may be coming.

Full story: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/meta-to-train-ai-on-eu-user-data-from.html

🚫 Your firewall isn't broken—it's just outdated.

AI-powered attacks are faster than ever. Still exposing your network with public IPs? You're playing defense with a blindfold.

Zscaler's Zero Trust model flips the script—no public IPs, no easy targets. It's not magic. It's strategy.

👀 The most secure network is the one they can't see.

🔎 Discover how it works → https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2025/05/eliminating-public-ips-case-for-zero.html

💻 Spectre Isn’t Dead. It’s Mutating! New CPU flaw hits ALL modern Intel chips.

🛠 Researchers at ETH Zurich and VUSec uncovered Spectre-style Intel CPU flaws (CVE-2024-45332, CVE-2024-28956, CVE-2025-24495) that leak memory across users, guests, and hosts—at rates up to 17KB/sec.

Read details → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/researchers-expose-new-intel-cpu-flaws.html

Patches are out. But is this just another Band-Aid?

🚨 A new Windows-based botnet—HTTPBot—is quietly choking login and payment systems across China’s gaming and tech sectors.

🔥 Over 200 targeted attacks since April 2025
🧠 Mimics real users with Chrome, cookies & HTTP/2

Learn more about this: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/new-httpbot-botnet-launches-200.html