Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2025-12-09 02:00 PST
- STAC6565 Targets Canada in 80% of Attacks as Gold Blade Deploys QWCrypt Ransomware
The Hacker News • 2025-12-09 01:35 • thehackernews.com
Canadian organizations have emerged as the focus of a targeted cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat activity cluster known as STAC6565.
Cybersecurity company Sophos said it investigated almost 40 intrusions linked to the threat actor between February 2024 and August 2025. The campaign is assessed with high confidence to share overlaps with a hacking group known as Gold Blade, which is also
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/stac6565-targets-canada-in-80-of.html - Researchers Find Malicious VS Code, Go, npm, and Rust Packages Stealing Developer Data
The Hacker News • 2025-12-09 00:07 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to infect developer machines with stealer malware.
The VS Code extensions masquerade as a premium dark theme and an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, but, in actuality, harbor covert functionality to download additional payloads, take
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/researchers-find-malicious-vs-code-go.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
