Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2025-12-26 07:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2025-12-26 07:00 PST

• IoT Hack
  Schneier on Security • 2025-12-26 04:02 • www.schneier.com

  Someone hacked an Italian ferry.

  It looks like the malware was installed by someone on the ferry, and not remotely.

  https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/iot-hack.html

• Trust Wallet confirms extension hack led to $7 million crypto theft
  BleepingComputer • 2025-12-26 01:47 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
  Several users of the Trust Wallet Chrome extension report having their cryptocurrency wallets drained after installing a compromised extension update released on December 24, prompting an urgent response from the company and warnings to affected users. Simultaneously, BleepingComputer observed a phishing domain launched by hackers. […]
  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trust-wallet-chrome-extension-hack-tied-to-millions-in-losses/
• Critical LangChain Core Vulnerability Exposes Secrets via Serialization Injection
  The Hacker News • 2025-12-26 01:27 • thehackernews.com
  A critical security flaw has been disclosed in LangChain Core that could be exploited by an attacker to steal sensitive secrets and even influence large language model (LLM) responses through prompt injection.
  LangChain Core (i.e., langchain-core) is a core Python package that’s part of the LangChain ecosystem, providing the core interfaces and model-agnostic abstractions for building
  https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/critical-langchain-core-vulnerability.html

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.