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ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Tools in Malware, Botnets, GDI Flaws, Election Attacks & More
Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms are turning into attack vectors. The result...
Bitdefender Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response
Bitdefender has once again been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) — marking the fourth consecutive year of inclusion. According to Gartner, more than 600 providers globally claim to deliver MDR...
Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection
The threat actor known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technologies as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary is said to have enabled the Hyper-V role on...
SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach
SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall configuration backup files. "The malicious activity – carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor - was isolated...
Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly
Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model API to write its own source code for improved obfuscation...
Researchers Find ChatGPT Vulnerabilities That Let Attackers Trick AI Into Leaking Data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from users' memories and chat histories without their knowledge....
Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox
Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth, “Android isn’t secure.” Android phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy, unlock new ways of working. But, as an IT admin, you may worry about the security—after all, work data is critical. However, outdated concerns can hold your...
U.S. Sanctions 10 North Korean Entities for Laundering $12.7M in Crypto and IT Fraud
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea's global financial network for laundering money for various illicit schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud....
Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps
Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It’s no surprise that many SOCs face burnout before they face their next breach. But this doesn’t have to be the...
Mysterious ‘SmudgedSerpent’ Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran–Israel Tensions
A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and...
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