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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard WAF, allowing them to execute commands as root or SYSTEM on compromised servers. In another development, the Rust-based CikaBika bot is turning Discord into a command center for executing malicious activities and stealing files from infected Windows systems. Meanwhile, two vulnerabilities in HAProxy have been identified that could lead to denial of service attacks. Data breaches continue to pose significant risks, with the FFTir organization reporting a 40 GB data leak including sensitive information. Additionally, the cybersecurity job market shows a 26% decline in postings, although demand for AI security engineers is rising, indicating a shift in the industry.
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According to a DOJ announcement, the exchange E-Note was used to process funds stolen by criminals in cyberattacks on healthcare entities and critical infrastructure, among other targets.
A Russian national was also indicted for running the platform.
The post DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups appeared first on CyberScoop.
Amazon's AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM). [...]
And why most of the arguments do not hold up under scrutiny Over the past 18 to 24 months, venture capital has flowed into a fresh wave of SIEM challengers including Vega (which raised $65M in seed and Series A at a ~$400M valuation), Perpetual Systems, RunReveal, Iceguard, Sekoia, Cybersift, Ziggiz...
A new version of AWS Security Hub is now generally available with new capabilities to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize your security alerts across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The prior version is now known as AWS Security Hub CSPM and will continue to be available as a unique service...
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Biosig Project Libbiosig, Grassroot DiCoM, and Smallstep step-ca.The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulne...
Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro RĂĽegge, Ali Hajiabadi, and Kaveh Razavi discovered
that the Linux kernel contained insufficient branch predictor isolation
between a guest and a userspace hypervisor for certain processors. This
flaw is known as VMSCAPE. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this
to e...
A zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 was reportedly exploited in the wild in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006.
Key takeaways:
CVE-2025-40602 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the appliance management console (AMC) of the SonicWall SMA 1000 appl...
TikTok and the gay dating app Grindr are violating European data protection laws by tracking user activities across apps, a digital rights organization alleges.
Session 6B: Confidential Computing 1
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Caihua Li (Yale University), Seung-seob Lee (Yale University), Lin Zhong (Yale University)
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Blindfold: Confidential Memory Management by Untrusted Operating System
Confidential Computing (CC) has received increasing atte...
Under a settlement with the FTC, the Nomad platform will have to redistribute stolen funds that white-hat hackers returned to the company after thieves aggressively exploited a vulnerability in 2022.
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SonicWall warned users to patch a SMA1000 AMC flaw that was exploited as a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in attacks. SonicWall urged customers to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40602, in the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console that was exploited as a zero-day in attacks...
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DataDome details how it aligns with CISA’s Secure by Design Pledge, outlining strong authentication, secure defaults, supply chain security, logging, and transparency.
The post DataDome’s Commitment to the CISA Secure by Design Pledge appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Two damagin...
Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign dubbed GhostPairing. [...]
Researchers said the campaign likely aimed to collect sensitive information from Ukrainian users in support of broader Russian intelligence objectives.