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Burp Suite Supercharges Its Scanning Capabilities With React2Shell Vulnerability Detection

PortSwigger has leveled up Burp Suite's scanning arsenal with the latest Active Scan++ extension, version 2.0.9, released on December 16, 2025. This free BApp, authored by Director of Research James Kettle, now detects React2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478), alongside a suite of other high-impact...

Malicious MCP Servers Enable New Prompt Injection Attack To Drain Resources

Unit 42 researchers at Palo Alto Networks exposed serious flaws in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) sampling feature used in AI coding copilots. Malicious MCP servers can inject prompts to steal compute resources, hijack chats, and run hidden tools without user knowledge.​ MCP Basics and...

Law Enforcement Detains Hackers Equipped With Specialized Flipper Hacking Tools

Polish police have arrested three Ukrainian men traveling through Europe and seized a cache of advanced hacking equipment that could target critical IT systems. The incident unfolded on December 8, 2025, when officers from Warsaw's Śródmieście district stopped a Toyota on Senatorska Street for...

Hackers Abuse AWS IAM Eventual Consistency To Maintain Persistent Access

Attackers can keep access to AWS accounts even after admins delete compromised keys. New research from OffensAI shows how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) eventual consistency creates a 4-second window for persistence. During this gap, deleted access keys still work, letting hackers create...

Hundreds Of Porsche Cars Rendered Inoperable After Satellite Security System Failure

Owners of hundreds of Porsche cars in Russia cannot drive their vehicles after a significant failure in the factory-installed satellite security system. This issue began on November 28, 2025. It affected all internal combustion engine (ICE) models in the Rolf dealership network, Russia's biggest...

Next.js Unveils Scanner To Detect and Patch Apps Vulnerable To react2shell

Vercel has released a new command-line tool, fix-react2shell-next, to help developers quickly detect and patch CVE-2025-66478, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed "React 2 Shell" that affects Next.js and React Server Components (RSC) apps. Available via npx fix-react2shell-next, the tool recursively scans...