Cybersecurity

A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested for allegedly acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang… and despite his lawyer claiming he’s “useless” with computers.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of four security flaws in OpenSynergy’s BlueSDK Bluetooth stack that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote code execution on millions of transport vehicles from different vendors.
The vulnerabilities, dubbed PerfektBlue, can be fashioned together as an exploit chain to run arbitrary code on cars from at least three major automakers,

Paddy Power and BetFair have warned customers that “an unauthorised third party” gained access to “limited betting account information” relating to up to 800,000 of their customers.

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A recently disclosed maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Wing FTP Server has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Huntress.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-47812 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper handling of null (”) bytes in the server’s web interface, which allows for remote code execution. It has been addressed in version 7.4.4.
“The user and

An Iranian-backed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) named Pay2Key has resurfaced in the wake of the Israel-Iran-U.S. conflict last month, offering bigger payouts to cybercriminals who launch attacks against Israel and the U.S.
The financially motivated scheme, now operating under the moniker Pay2Key.I2P, is assessed to be linked to a hacking group tracked as Fox Kitten (aka Lemon Sandstorm).
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, officially confirming the vulnerability has been weaponized in the wild.
The shortcoming in question is CVE-2025-5777 (CVSS score: 9.3), an instance of insufficient input validation that

Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recent victims include multiple airlines and the U.K. retail chain Marks & Spencer.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the open-source mcp-remote project that could result in the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6514, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.0.
“The vulnerability allows attackers to trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running mcp-remote when it

Cryptocurrency users are the target of an ongoing social engineering campaign that employs fake startup companies to trick users into downloading malware that can drain digital assets from both Windows and macOS systems.
“These malicious operations impersonate AI, gaming, and Web3 firms using spoofed social media accounts and project documentation hosted on legitimate platforms like Notion and