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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends:
1. Google is rolling out AI defenses for Android to combat messaging scams and fraudulent calls, aiming to enhance user security.
2. A new election influence campaign is leveraging hyperlocal content to manipulate AI chatbots, suggesting a future trend in political disinformation.
3. Zero-click spyware is being disseminated through targeted online ads, posing significant risks as it can infect devices without user interaction.
4. Cisco has issued a warning regarding an actively exploited vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway, allowing remote attackers to execute commands with root privileges.
5. The Legal Aid Agency in the UK experienced a severe data breach, with records dating back to 1978 compromised, highlighting the long-term implications of such attacks.
6. Researchers also discovered fake CAPTCHA systems used to facilitate malware downloads, further illustrating the evolving tactics of cybercriminals.
7. Major vulnerabilities were reported in various platforms, including critical flaws in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS and Drupal, underscoring the urgent need for patches and updates.
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Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems. [...]
Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper.
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USN-7855-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Unbound. It was discovered that the fix
for CVE-2025-11411 was incomplete. This update fixes the problem.
Original advisory details:
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that
Unbound incorrectly handled certain promiscuous NS RRSets....
While most cybersecurity companies pour resources into AI models, massive compute, hoovering up all the data, and enhanced analytics to detect and prevent threats, Frenetik, a Maryland cyber startup, is betting on something simpler: making sure attackers don’t know what defend...
Bethesda, USA / Maryland, 2nd December 2025, CyberNewsWire
The post Cyber Startup Frenetik Launches with Patented Deception Technology That Bets Against the AI Arms Race appeared first on Security Boulevard.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has confirmed a new data breach after attackers stole documents containing personal information from its Oracle E-Business Suite servers in August. [...]
The Indian government has ordered smartphone makers to preinstall its Sanchar Saathi app on all devices, a move that is raising fresh privacy concerns.
The Swiss cybersecurity firm will scale its R&D, sales and marketing teams as it pursues expansion across Europe.
The post Saporo Raises $8 Million for Identity Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Through lectures, deep-dive presentations, best practice examples, and masterclasses, the focus of Span Cyber Security Arena 2026 will be on what strengthens our defense against cyber threats. Span Cyber Security Arena 2026 will be held in Poreč from May 20 to 22, 2026, at the Pical Resort 5* Valama...
Coupang disclosed a five-month data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 34 million South Korean customers. South Korean e-commerce giant disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 34 million customers, exposing personal information over a period of more than five months. “According...
In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?” But in the early decades of this century, Sussk...
The Codex CLI vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61260 can be exploited for command execution.
The post Vulnerability in OpenAI Coding Agent Could Facilitate Attacks on Developers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks. These changes are being reviewed and will be added in an upcoming release, LLVM 22....
Baltimore, MD, 2nd December 2025, CyberNewsWire
The post AI Adoption Surges While Governance Lags — Report Warns of Growing Shadow Identity Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard.
The 2025 State of AI Data Security Report reveals a widening contradiction in enterprise security: AI adoption is nearly universal, yet oversight remains limited. Eighty-three percent of organizations already use AI in daily operations, but only 13 percent say they have strong...
Google’s December update fixes two Android bugs that criminals are actively exploiting. Update as soon as you can.
Radiant Logic announced major enhancements to its RadiantOne Platform. The release introduces new AI-powered collaborative remediation, an agentic AI-first approach that leverages the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard, and support for the Shared Signals Framework (SSF) with the Continuous Access...
Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and keeping track of all the vulnerability alerts, notifications, and updates can be a burden on resources and...
Microsoft has released the KB5070311 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 systems, which includes 49 changes, including fixes for File Explorer freezes and search issues. [...]
Google said it found indications that two newly identified vulnerabilities affecting Android “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”