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Scattered Spider’s Hypervisor Attack on VMware vSphere Operation GhostChat and PhantomPrayers Breach Tibetan Trust July 2025 Linux Patch Roundup Operation CargoTalon: Targeting Russian Aerospace & Defense Sector Greedy Sponge’s Stealthy RAT Attack in Mexico APT41 Targets African Government IT Services Critical Cisco ISE Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild Ghost Crypt Delivers PureRAT in Accounting Firm Attack Zero Day Watch CVE-2025-53770 Turns SharePoint into a Pivot Point Critical Zero-Day in CrushFTP Exposes Admin Interface Taiwan’s Semiconductor Firms Under Siege by Chinese Cyber Operations GhostContainer Malware Targets Asian Government Networks GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Gains Momentum with AI-Powered Negotiation Tools Octalyn: The Stealer Hidden in Plain Sight Interlock Ransomware Deploys New PHP RAT via FileFix Phishing CVE-2025-6558: Chrome Flaw Lets Hackers Break the Sandbox Count(er) Strike: CVE-2025-3648 Exposes ServiceNow Data NordDragonScan Turns Simple Lures into Silent Data Heists Wing FTP Flaw Enables System Takeover Critical Unauthenticated SQL Injection Flaw in Fortinet FortiWeb

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SparklingGoblin Revamps SideWalk Backdoor for Linux Variant

Threat Level – Red | Vulnerability Report

SparklingGoblin aka Earth Baku State-backed Chinese hackers has integrated a Linux variant of the SideWalk backdoor. SparklingGoblin Threat actors typically target East and Southeast Asian countries, with a special emphasis on the educational sector, employing Motnug and ChaCha20-based loaders, the CROSSWALK and SideWalk backdoors, as well as Korplug (aka PlugX) and Cobalt Strike.

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