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| Thu 15 Oct | 78 | 15 |
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| Sat 17 Oct | 10 | 1 |
| Sun 18 Oct | 10 | 0 |
| Mon 19 Oct | 60 | 12 |
| Tue 20 Oct | 86 | 16 |
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Wed 16 Jul 202585 articles
- AI Agents Act Like Employees With Root Access—Here's How to Regain Control
The AI gold rush is on. But without identity-first security, every deployment becomes an open door. Most organizations secure native AI like a web app, but it behaves more like a junior employee with root access and no manager. From Hype to High Stakes…
The Hacker News - Oracle Issues Critical Update Fixing 309 Vulnerabilities Across Products
Oracle Corporation released its July 2025 Critical Patch Update, addressing a substantial 309 security vulnerabilities across its extensive product portfolio. This quarterly security release represents one of the most comprehensive patches in recent years,…
gbhackers.com - 70% of healthcare cyberattacks result in delayed patient care, report finds
Chad Van Alstin reports: Last year, 92% of all healthcare organizations—systems, hospitals, and provider groups—were targeted by a cyberattack, according to a new report from vendor Fortified Health Security. Further, 70% of those that reported experiencing…
DataBreaches - NimDoor MacOS Malware Abuses Zoom SDK Updates to Steal Keychain Credentials
SentinelOne researchers have discovered NimDoor, a sophisticated MacOS malware campaign ascribed to North Korean-affiliated attackers, most likely the Stardust Chollima gang, in a notable increase in cyber threats targeting the bitcoin industry. Active since…
gbhackers.com - Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices
Bill Toulas reports: An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as ‘Diskstation,’ which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation…
DataBreaches - Amazon warns 200 million Prime customers that scammers are after their login info
Amazon has sent out an alert to its 200 million customers, warning them that scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam. In the email, sent earlier this month, Amazon said it had noticed an increase in reports about fake Amazon emails:…
Malwarebytes - Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding
Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. [...]
BleepingComputer - Konfety Android Malware Exploits ZIP Tricks to Masquerade as Legit Apps on Google Play
Security researchers from zLabs have discovered a more advanced version of the Konfety Android malware, which uses complex ZIP-level changes to avoid detection and mimic genuine apps on the Google Play Store, marking a dramatic increase in mobile dangers.…
gbhackers.com - Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content
Zack Whittaker reports: Meta has fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view the private prompts and AI-generated responses of other users. Sandeep Hodkasia, the founder of security testing firm AppSecure, exclusively told…
DataBreaches - CVE-2025-6554 marks the fifth actively exploited Chrome Zero-Day patched by Google in 2025
Google released security patches to address multiple Chrome vulnerabilities, including one flaw that has been exploited in the wild. Google released fixes for six Chrome flaws, including one actively exploited in the wild tracked as CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score…
Security Affairs - Email Filters Defeated by Polyglot File Trick Used in Malware Campaigns
Attackers are increasingly using advanced disguising techniques, such polyglot files, to get around email filters and successfully send phishing payloads in the constantly changing world of cyber threats. These polyglot files, which can be interpreted as…
gbhackers.com - Massive DDoS Attack Slams Internet with 7.3 Tbps and 4.8 Billion Packets Per Second
Cloudflare’s latest DDoS Threat Report for the second quarter of 2025 reveals that the company autonomously mitigated the largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, peaking at an unprecedented 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) and 4.8…
gbhackers.com - China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked US National Guard
Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon targeted a National Guard unit’s network and tapped into communications with other units.
SecurityWeek - New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an…
The Hacker News - Urgent: Google Releases Critical Chrome Update for CVE-2025-6558 Exploit Active in the Wild
Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score: 8.8), which has been described as an…
The Hacker News - Deepfakes. Fake Recruiters. Cloned CFOs — Learn How to Stop AI-Driven Attacks in Real Time
Social engineering attacks have entered a new era—and they’re coming fast, smart, and deeply personalized. It’s no longer just suspicious emails in your spam folder. Today’s attackers use generative AI, stolen branding assets, and deepfake tools to mimic…
The Hacker News - Command-Line Editor Vim Hit by Vulnerability Allowing File Overwrites
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Vim, the popular open-source command-line text editor, that could allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary files on users’ systems. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-53906, was published on July 15,…
gbhackers.com - Hackers Exploit Ivanti and Fortinet VPN Vulnerabilities in Attacks on Japanese Companies
Cyber espionage campaigns against Japanese companies have increased in fiscal year 2024, which runs from April 2024 to March 2025, according to a thorough analysis published by Macnica’s Security Research Center. The main objective of these campaigns is to…
gbhackers.com - Curl 8.15.0 Officially Released: 233 Bugs Fixed in Major Update
Curl, the ubiquitous command-line tool and library for transferring data with URLs, has reached version 8.15.0 with a landmark release that addresses more than 230 bugs and streamlines its internal architecture. Officially launched today at 10:00 CEST (08:00…
gbhackers.com - Authorities Take Down ‘Diskstation’ Ransomware Gang Targeting Synology NAS Globally
Italian State Police, working alongside French and Romanian authorities, have successfully dismantled a sophisticated ransomware operation known as “Diskstation” that specifically targeted Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems worldwide. The…
gbhackers.com - DDoS peaks hit new highs: Cloudflare mitigated massive 7.3 Tbps assault
Cloudflare blocked 7.3M DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, down from 20.5M in Q1, while hyper-volumetric attacks surged with 6,500+ blocked, averaging 71 daily. Cloudflare mitigated 7.3M DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, down from 20.5M in Q1, 13.5M of which stemmed from an…
Security Affairs - Abacus Dark Web Market Suspected of Exit Scam with Held Bitcoin Funds
The largest Bitcoin-enabled Western darknet marketplace, Abacus Market, has gone offline amid widespread suspicions of an exit scam that may have cost users millions of dollars in held cryptocurrency funds. TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics firm, assesses…
gbhackers.com - Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon Pleads Guilty
Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to charges related to hacking into US telecommunications companies.
SecurityWeek - IoT Security Firm Exein Raises $81 Million
Italian company Exein has raised €70 million (~$81 million) in a Series C funding round led by Balderton.
SecurityWeek - Google AI "Big Sleep" Stops Exploitation of Critical SQLite Vulnerability Before Hackers Act
Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in the SQLite open-source database engine before it could have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as…
The Hacker News - Chrome Update Patches Fifth Zero-Day of 2025
Google has released a Chrome 138 security update that patches a zero-day, the fifth resolved in the browser this year.
SecurityWeek - Former U.S. Army Member Pleads Guilty in Telecom Hacking Case
A 21-year-old former U.S. Army soldier has pleaded guilty to participating in a sophisticated cybercrime operation that targeted telecommunications companies through hacking, data theft, and extortion schemes. Cameron John Wagenius, who was stationed in…
gbhackers.com - Node.js Vulnerabilities Leave Windows Apps Vulnerable to Path Traversal and HashDoS
The Node.js project has released critical security updates across multiple release lines to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to Windows applications and could enable denial-of-service attacks. The vulnerabilities,…
gbhackers.com - VMware ESXi and Workstation Vulnerabilities Allow Host-Level Code Execution
Broadcom disclosed four critical vulnerabilities in VMware’s virtualization suite on July 15, 2025, enabling attackers to escape virtual machines and execute code directly on host systems. The flaws, discovered through the Pwn2Own competition, affect ESXi,…
gbhackers.com - Google Chrome 0-Day Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation
Google has released an emergency security update for Chrome 138 to address a critical zero-day vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6558, affects the browser’s ANGLE and GPU components and has…
gbhackers.com - Altered Telegram App Steals Chinese Users' Android Data
Using more than 600 domains, attackers entice Chinese-speaking victims to download a vulnerable Telegram app that is nearly undetectable on older versions of Android.
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