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 Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA WarningOn August 23, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy ThreatpostCategories: Vulnerabilities, Web Security CISA is warning that Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS is under active attack and needs to be patched ASAP.… Read more |
 Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary TravelersOn August 22, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Nate NelsonCategories: Malware, Web Security Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the mise… Read more |
 Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the YearOn August 18, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Vulnerabilities, Web Security, Google Chrome, zero-day vulnerabilities An insufficient validation input flaw, one of 11 patched in an update this week, could allow for arb… Read more |
 Phishers Swim Around 2FA in Coinbase Account HeistsOn August 8, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Hacks, Web Security Attackers are spoofing the widely used cryptocurrency exchange to trick users into logging in so the… Read more |
 Open Redirect Flaw Snags Amex, Snapchat User DataOn August 5, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Hacks, Vulnerabilities, Web Security Separate phishing campaigns targeting thousands of victims impersonate FedEx and Microsoft, among ot… Read more |
 Universities Put Email Users at Cyber RiskOn August 2, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Vulnerabilities, Web Security DMARC analysis by Proofpoint shows that institutions in the U.S. have among some of the poorest prot… Read more |
 Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in OfficeOn July 28, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Hacks, Malware, Web Security Cybercriminals turn to container files and other tactics to get around the company’s attempt to thwa… Read more |
 IoT Botnets Fuel DDoS Attacks – Are You Prepared?On July 26, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Sponsored ContentCategories: Sponsored, Vulnerabilities, Web Security, indusface The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies… Read more |
 Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering SystemsOn July 20, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Elizabeth MontalbanoCategories: Hacks, Malware, Web Security 300 restaurants and at least 50,000 payment cards compromised by two separate campaigns against Menu… Read more |
 Authentication Risks Discovered in Okta PlatformOn July 19, 2022Source: Web Security – ThreatpostBy Nate NelsonCategories: Privacy, Web Security Four newly discovered attack paths could lead to PII exposure, account takeover, even organizational… Read more |
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Data Breeches
NCCIA arrests man over massive data breach involving millions of PakistanisOn November 8, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Government Sector, Non-U.S. Dialogue Pakistan reports: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a man… Read more |
Defense Contractors Are Silencing Their Cybersecurity WatchdogsOn November 8, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Commentaries and Analyses, Government Sector, Subcontractor, U.S. Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framewo… Read more |
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class ActionsOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Breach Incidents, Business Sector, Commentaries and Analyses, Of Note, U.S. Alexander Busse, Jessica Fuhrman, Elizabeth Hudson, Ian Jones, Francis Nolan IV, and Valerie Strong… Read more |
ALT5 Sigma sues former consultant over alleged data breachOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Business Sector, Insider, U.S. Here is today’s reminder of the insider threat. Street Insider reports: ALT5 Sigma Corporation… Read more |
Is your cyberinsurance paid up? Are you sure?On November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Breach Incidents, Commentaries and Analyses, Phishing Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc. (“PSA”) is a real estate firm headquartered i… Read more |
Everest Group Interview on Collins Aerospace Breach — Daily Dark WebOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Business Sector, Commentaries and Analyses, Hack, Non-U.S. Daily Dark Web has published an interesting interview with Everest Group about the Collins Aerospace… Read more |
Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to DoOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Commentaries and Analyses, Education Sector, U.S., EdTech, edusec Ellen Ullman reports: When Kerri Wall’s school district decided not to renew its five-year contract… Read more |
Benworth Capital Partners negotiated with threat actors after more than 25,000 lenders had data stolenOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Financial Sector, Hack, Subcontractor, U.S. Benworth Capital Partners PR LLC is a licensed lender in Florida that describes itself as a “… Read more |
Android Hit by 0-Click RCE Vulnerability in Core System ComponentOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Commentaries and Analyses, Miscellaneous, Of Note Divya reports: Google has released an urgent security alert addressing a critical remote code execut… Read more |
Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Illuminate Education For Failing to Protect Students’ DataOn November 7, 2025Source: DataBreaches.NetBy DissentCategories: Education Sector, Of Note, U.S., EdTech, Illuminate NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Conne… Read more |
Cyberscoop
Russian national pleads guilty to breaking into networks for Yanluowang ransomware attacksOn November 7, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Matt KapkoCategories: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Cisco, cybercrime, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), guilty, ransomware, Russia, Yanluowang Aleksei Olegovich Volkov served as an initial access broker and was involved in attacks on seven U.S… Read more |
Report: Government data mining has gone too far – and AI will make it worseOn November 7, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy djohnsonCategories: AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Congress, data mining, privacy, SAVE database, Trump administration A digital privacy group says agencies are collecting too much data on Americans and using AI tools t… Read more |
New Landfall spyware apparently targeting Samsung phones in Middle EastOn November 7, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Tim StarksCategories: Geopolitics, Privacy, Research, Threats, Iran, Iraq, Landfall, Morocco, NSO Group, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung, spyware, Stealth Falcon, Turkey, Unit 42, United Arab Emirates (UAE), WhatsApp Palo Alto Networks researchers haven’t been able to identify who’s behind the commercial-grade tech… Read more |
The quiet revolution: How regulation is forcing cybersecurity accountabilityOn November 7, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Greg OttoCategories: Commentary, Cybersecurity, Policy, compliance, op-ed, regulation The most important story in cybersecurity today is not about the next breach, but how organizations… Read more |
Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incidentOn November 6, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Tim StarksCategories: Financial, Government, Threats, budget, Congress, Congressional Budget Office, hack Suspected foreign hackers reportedly breached Congressional Budget Office, possibly exposing communi… Read more |
SonicWall pins attack on customer portal to undisclosed nation-stateOn November 6, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Matt KapkoCategories: Technology, Threats, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ransomware, cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), hacking, Mandiant, nation state threats, nation-state hackers, ransomware, SonicWall The security vendor said the attack, which exposed customers’ firewall configuration files, is conta… Read more |
Court reimposes original sentence for Capital One hackerOn November 5, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy Greg OttoCategories: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Capital One, Department of Justice (DOJ) A federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer… Read more |
With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louderOn November 5, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy djohnsonCategories: Cybersecurity, Government, Technology, Amazon, AWS, cloud computing, Commerce Department, FTC, Microsoft Azure, outages Public interest groups want the feds to investigate the systemic risk from market share, while tech… Read more |
Congressional leaders want an executive branch strategy on China 6G, tech supply chainOn November 5, 2025Source: CyberScoopBy djohnsonCategories: Cybersecurity, Exclusive, Geopolitics, Government, rip and replace, 6G, supply chain, China, telecommunications, Congress In an exclusive, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., told CyberScoop that policymakers must learn from… Read more |
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The Hacker News
 Microsoft Uncovers 'Whisper Leak' Attack That Identifies AI Chat Topics in Encrypted TrafficOn November 8, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByMicrosoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that… Read more Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances.
This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to |
 Samsung Mobile Flaw Exploited as Zero-Day to Deploy LANDFALL Android SpywareOn November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByA now-patched security flaw in Samsung Galaxy Android devices was exploited as a zero-day to deliver… Read more A now-patched security flaw in Samsung Galaxy Android devices was exploited as a zero-day to deliver a "commercial-grade" Android spyware dubbed LANDFALL in targeted attacks in the Middle East.
The activity involved the exploitation of CVE-2025-21042 (CVSS score: 8.8), an out-of-bounds write flaw in the "libimagecodec.quram.so" component that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary |
 From Log4j to IIS, China’s Hackers Turn Legacy Bugs into Global Espionage ToolsOn November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByA China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organ… Read more A China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organization with an aim to establish long-term persistence, as part of broader activity aimed at U.S. entities that are linked to or involved in policy issues.
The organization, according to a report from Broadcom's Symantec and Carbon Black teams, is "active in attempting to influence U.S. government |
 Hidden Logic Bombs in Malware-Laced NuGet Packages Set to Detonate Years After InstallationOn November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByA set of nine malicious NuGet packages has been identified as capable of dropping time-delayed paylo… Read more A set of nine malicious NuGet packages has been identified as capable of dropping time-delayed payloads to sabotage database operations and corrupt industrial control systems.
According to software supply chain security company Socket, the packages were published in 2023 and 2024 by a user named "shanhai666" and are designed to run malicious code after specific trigger dates in August 2027 and |
 Enterprise Credentials at Risk – Same Old, Same Old?On November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByImagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your or… Read more Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization’s cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her credentials, and goes back to her spreadsheet. But unknown to her, she’s just made a big mistake. Sarah just accidentally handed over her login details to cybercriminals who are laughing all the way to their dark web |
 Google Launches New Maps Feature to Help Businesses Report Review-Based Extortion AttemptsOn November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByGoogle on Thursday said it's rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps… Read more Google on Thursday said it's rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments.
The approach is designed to tackle a common practice called review bombing, where online users intentionally post negative user reviews in an |
 Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware CapabilitiesOn November 7, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByCybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic… Read more Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in other words, vibe-coded.
Secure Annex researcher John Tuckner, who flagged the extension "susvsex," said it does not attempt to hide its malicious functionality. The extension was uploaded on |
 Trojanized ESET Installers Drop Kalambur Backdoor in Phishing Attacks on UkraineOn November 6, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByA previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity co… Read more A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities.
The campaign, detected in May 2025, is tracked by the security outfit under the moniker InedibleOchotense, describing it as Russia-aligned.
"InedibleOchotense sent spear-phishing emails and Signal text messages, containing a link |
 Cisco Warns of New Firewall Attack Exploiting CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362On November 6, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByCisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that's designed to target… Read more Cisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that's designed to target devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software releases that are susceptible to CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362.
"This attack can cause unpatched devices to unexpectedly reload, leading to denial-of-service |
 From Tabletop to Turnkey: Building Cyber Resilience in Financial ServicesOn November 6, 2025Source: The Hacker NewsByIntroduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being… Read more Introduction
Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement.
Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity, have become required as a series of regulations has introduced this requirement to FSI organizations in |
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