U.S. authorities have once again imposed sanctions on the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, accusing it of facilitating the laundering of more than $100 million in illicit funds and supporting the operations of ransomware groups. Founded...
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Zoom has patched a critical vulnerability in its Windows clients, while Xerox has issued fixes for severe flaws in its FreeFlow Core system. Both issues posed significant threats—ranging from privilege escalation to remote code...
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A new Android malware campaign has emerged, targeting banking customers in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia, combining contactless fraud via NFC, call interception, and the exploitation of device vulnerabilities. Researchers at ThreatFabric have identified...
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GooFuzz GooFuzz is a script written in Bash Scripting that uses advanced Google search techniques to obtain sensitive information in files or directories without making requests to the web server. GooFuzz performs fuzzing with an OSINT...
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Microsoft has released the seventh preview of .NET 10 (Preview 7), introducing updates to its runtime and frameworks. Among the most notable enhancements are a new wrapper that exposes WebSocket connections through a streaming...
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Ransomware operators and infostealers are adapting their tactics more swiftly than enterprises can recalibrate their defenses. Even substantial investments in ransomware resilience—primarily in backups and recovery—are increasingly failing to prevent tangible damage. According to...
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Japan has been struck by a new wave of cyberattacks involving CrossC2, a tool that extends the capabilities of Cobalt Strike to Linux and macOS platforms. According to the JPCERT/CC Coordination Center, these attacks...
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CrowdStrike has released its Global Threat Report 2025, documenting a profound shift in the behavior of both cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups. Analysts have described 2024 as “the year of the enterprising adversary”—threat actors are...
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Google has introduced a new requirement for developers of cryptocurrency exchange and wallet applications, mandating that they obtain official government licenses prior to publication. The company explains that this initiative is intended to foster...
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Aced Aced is a tool to parse and resolve a single targeted Active Directory principal’s DACL. Aced will identify interesting inbound access allowed privileges against the targeted account, resolve the SIDS of the inbound...
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The Trustwave SpiderLabs research team has documented a fresh wave of EncryptHub attacks, in which the human element and the exploitation of a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) vulnerability converge into a single, cohesive campaign....
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A newly discovered attack on the HTTP/2 protocol, dubbed MadeYouReset, has been unveiled by researchers from Tel Aviv University and disclosed following coordinated reporting through Akamai’s bug bounty program. Although Akamai’s own HTTP/2 implementation...
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The Muddled Libra network—also known as Scattered Spider or Octo Tempest—lacks the rigid hierarchy and centralized control typical of many cybercriminal organizations. Instead, it resembles a loosely connected community of individual threat actors, bound...
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Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even...
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Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit 8200—specializing in cyber-espionage and electronic surveillance—has been using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store a vast archive of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank. This trove, leveraged...
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Google has announced that the protected KVM (pKVM) hypervisor, used within the Android Virtualization Framework, has become the world’s first software component for mass-market consumer electronics to achieve the SESIP Level 5 security certification....
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Microsoft has alerted Windows 11 users to a new false notification that appears after installing the July 2025 preview update and subsequent 24H2 releases. The issue is linked to the CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) component and...
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Microsoft has released a new video interview with Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows, in which he outlined the company’s vision for the platform’s evolution and the transformative role artificial intelligence will play. When asked...
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Fortinet has disclosed a critical vulnerability in its FortiSIEM system, already accompanied by a working exploit circulating publicly. The flaw enables a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the targeted system, making...
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The Matrix Foundation, the organization behind the eponymous federated communication protocol, has announced the release of an unscheduled update addressing two high-severity vulnerabilities which, if successfully exploited, could have had critical consequences. According to...
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