The Hacker News

🚨 A major WordPress flaw is being exploited right now. The King Addons for Elementor plugin let anyone sign up as an admin — no login needed. Over 48,000 attack attempts have been blocked since October. Full details → https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/wordpress-king-addons-flaw-under-active.html

⚡ A 16-year-old with a $200 allowance can now outsmart your email security. Tools like WormGPT, FraudGPT, and SpamGPT are automating cybercrime — writing perfect CEO emails, building fake sites, and scaling attacks faster than filters can react. In this live session, experts will break down how these tools work and how to stop them after someone clicks. 🔗 Secure your seat → https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/discover-ai-tools-fueling-next.html

⚠️ Brazil under dual attack. Water Saci is spreading a banking trojan through a WhatsApp-based worm, while RelayNFC is running an Android NFC relay campaign that steals contactless payment data. Both threats use social engineering and target Brazilian users. 🔗 Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/brazil-hit-by-banking-trojan-spread-via.html

ShinyHunters. Salesloft Drift. Gainsight. Different breaches — same playbook: • Abused OAuth trust • Exploited integrations • Targeted non-human identities Still think Salesforce is “just another app”? Attackers don’t — they’re hitting the entire SaaS supply chain. 👉 Read the white paper → https://thn.news/enterprise-security-2026

⚙️ AI is already making security decisions inside most tools — from SIEMs to endpoint protection. It uses math, not context. That means risk calls you didn’t make can still land on you. Here’s how to build and tune your own AI workflows for control ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/chopping-ai-down-to-size-turning.html

🚨 Warning: businesses are facing a new threat! #Salty2FA and #Tycoon2FA are now attacking together. The #phishing campaign that's just been discovered is stealing corporate logins at scale. See the breakdown and key IOCs for your SOC ⬇️https://thn.news/tycoon-cyber-phish

⚡Pentests expire fast. ☁️ Cloud setups change daily—so reports age out in weeks. Gaurav Kulkarni of Sprocket Security shows how Continuous Penetration Testing finds and verifies issues as they appear, giving real proof your fixes work. Read more ↓ https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2025/12/beyond-point-in-time-roi-case-for.html

🚨 Three critical flaws just found in Picklescan — the open-source tool made to detect unsafe PyTorch models. Attackers could use them to slip in malicious code and bypass its scans. Full details ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/picklescan-bugs-allow-malicious-pytorch.html

🚨 ALERT: A fake Rust package was downloaded over 7,000 times before it was taken down. It posed as an Ethereum tool but secretly ran malicious code on Windows, macOS, and Linux. More here ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/malicious-rust-crate-delivers-os.html

📱 India now requires messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal to stay linked to an active SIM card. Web sessions will auto-logout every 6 hours. Goal — stop “ghost sessions” used for scams and fraud. 🔗 Details ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/india-orders-messaging-apps-to-work.html

💪 North Korean hackers got caught live — by fake laptops. Researchers from BCA LTD, NorthScan, and ANYRUN set a trap for Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima team. The hackers thought they were working real remote tech jobs. But the “laptops” were fake — built to watch their actions safely. Read the full story ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/researchers-capture-lazarus-apts-remote.html

🚨 GlassWorm is back. 24 fake VS Code and Open VSX extensions are stealing developer credentials — spreading through popular names like Flutter, React, and Tailwind. The malware hides its control data on the Solana blockchain and runs Rust implants on both Windows and macOS. 🔗 Read ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/glassworm-returns-with-24-malicious.html