Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2025-11-06 02:00 PST
- Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection
The Hacker News • 2025-11-05 23:22 • thehackernews.com
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 selected victim systems to deploy a minimalistic, Alpine Linux-based virtual machine.
“This hidden environment, with its lightweight
https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/hackers-weaponize-windows-hyper-v-to.html - SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach
The Hacker News • 2025-11-05 21:40 • thehackernews.com
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 to the unauthorized access of cloud backup files from a specific cloud environment using an API call,” the company said in a
https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/sonicwall-confirms-state-sponsored.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
