Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users.
New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident.
More troubling is the fact that other images have been built on top of these infected base images, effectively propagating the infection further in a transitive manner, Binarly REsearch said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
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Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “significant spike” in brute-force traffic aimed at Fortinet SSL VPN devices.
The coordinated activity, per threat intelligence firm GreyNoise, was observed on August 3, 2025, with over 780 unique IP addresses participating in the effort.
As many as 56 unique IP addresses have been detected over the past 24 hours. All the IP addresses have been
An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand in hand, new findings show.
“This latest wave of ShinyHunters-attributed attacks reveals a dramatic shift in tactics, moving beyond the group’s previous credential theft and database
In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google.
Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks – is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
The United States Department of Justice has revealed that the recent takedown of the BlackSuit ransomware gang’s servers, domains, and dark web extortion site, also saw the seizure of US $1,091,453 worth of cryptocurrency.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks.
“They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers — the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a Windows network,”
Most security tools can’t see what happens inside the browser, but that’s where the majority of work, and risk, now lives. Security leaders deciding how to close that gap often face a choice: deploy a dedicated Enterprise Browser or add an enterprise-grade control layer to the browsers employees already use and trust.
The Ultimate Battle: Enterprise Browsers vs. Enterprise Browser Extensions
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) has warned of cyber attacks exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC products to breach organizations in the country.
The NCSC-NL said it discovered the exploitation of CVE-2025-6543 targeting several critical organizations within the Netherlands, and that investigations are ongoing to determine the
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of security issues in the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) communications protocol, including in its proprietary end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mechanism that exposes the system to replay and brute-force attacks, and even decrypt encrypted traffic.
Details of the vulnerabilities – dubbed 2TETRA:2BURST – were presented at the Black Hat USA