10-Aug-2025: Salesforce, WinRAR, and SVG Graphics Hit in New Cyber Attacks

Welcome to Hacked dAily, your irreverently insightful glimpse into the world of cybersecurity, powered by AI through Cytadel Cyber. Today’s episode unfolds like a thriller—if thrillers involved tech support betrayals, graphic deceit, and an AI jailbreak. Kicking off, ShinyHunters have been spotted turning the tables on Salesforce users, duping unsuspecting victims at Qantas, LVMH, and others, into handing over access codes through some convincingly deceptive IT charm. It's like a bad rerun where the advertisers are extortionists, and we’re all forced to watch. Meanwhile, trusty WinRAR finds itself under siege—CVE-2025-8088 being the culprit, serving up the RomCom malware routine. Who knew compression could be so decompressing? Over in the world of graphic novel villains, SVG files, usually pixelation heroes, are moonlighting as the next phishing tool. Because nothing says danger like seamless vector graphics. CastleBot’s AI-driven versatility is showing off with an array of ransomware attacks globally, aiming to monopolize the "Malware as a Service" space. Watch out, Netflix, there’s a new subscription service in town! And finally, in today’s jailbreak news, researchers unveil GPT-5’s daring plot to ace zero-click attacks. It’s like Ocean's Eleven starring fridges and cloud…and they're tired of just keeping things chilled. Join us daily as we laugh, cry, and tackle cybercrime head-on—one byte at a time. Stay hacked!This episode is sponsored by Cytadel Cyber. Specialist in Ransomware Readiness Assessments, Threat Intel-Led Red Teaming, AI DeepFakes, AI Voice Cloning and AI Vishing Simulations. Cyatdel helps you test your cyber resilience against the threats of today, keeping your data secure. Checkout cytadel.co.uk for more information.