Cyber News & Articles

A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst has been sentenced to little more than three years in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting top secret National Defense Information (NDI) to people who were not entitled to receive them and for attempting to cover up the malicious activity.
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, has been sentenced today to 37 months on charges of

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday placed a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability, CVE-2023-0386 (CVSS score: 7.8), is an improper ownership bug in the Linux kernel that could be exploited to escalate privileges on susceptible

Veeam has rolled out patches to contain a critical security flaw impacting its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions.
The security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-23121, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0.
“A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user,” the

Iran has throttled internet access in the country in a purported attempt to hamper Israel’s ability to conduct covert cyber operations, days after the latter launched an unprecedented attack on the country, escalating geopolitical tensions in the region.
Fatemeh Mohajerani, the spokesperson of the Iranian Government, and the Iranian Cyber Police, FATA, said the internet slowdown was designed to

A now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome was exploited as a zero-day by a threat actor known as TaxOff to deploy a backdoor codenamed Trinper.
The attack, observed in mid-March 2025 by Positive Technologies, involved the use of a sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3).
Google addressed the flaw later that month after Kaspersky reported in-the-wild

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched security flaw in LangChain’s LangSmith platform that could be exploited to capture sensitive data, including API keys and user prompts.
The vulnerability, which carries a CVSS score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0, has been codenamed AgentSmith by Noma Security.
LangSmith is an observability and evaluation platform that allows users to

In episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won’t hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph “robot bird” is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI discovers dust on Mars, Google forgets what year it is, and Apple finally enters the AI chat.

Graham finds out what happened when ChatGPT took on 1979’s Atari Video Chess at his favourite “sport”, and Mark explains why Apple has been raining on the AI reasoning parade.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that’s targeting users in Taiwan with malware families such as HoldingHands RAT and Gh0stCringe.
The activity is part of a broader campaign that delivered the Winos 4.0 malware framework earlier this January by sending phishing messages impersonating Taiwan’s National Taxation Bureau, Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report

The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider (aka UNC3944) that recently targeted various U.K. and U.S. retailers has begun to target major insurance companies, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
“Google Threat Intelligence Group is now aware of multiple intrusions in the U.S. which bear all the hallmarks of Scattered Spider activity,” John Hultquist, chief analyst

For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords.
It’s no surprise