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Today's cyber news highlights significant threats and vulnerabilities. The FBI has seized $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency linked to North Korean hackers, who are also implicated in a $400 million social engineering scheme. This operation involved using video call deception to trick victims. In software security, several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu products have been addressed, including fixes for x11vnc's insecure shared memory permissions, TigerVNC's server impersonation risks, and the signing-party's potential for executing malicious commands via crafted OpenPGP keys. Additionally, updates for SA-Exim and Ruby OpenID have been released to mitigate risks of unsafe rule evaluations and server-side request forgery, respectively.
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L'Agence Espagnole de Protection des Données (AEPD) a publié une décision de sanction à l'encontre de la société APARELLS ORTOPEDICS CURTO, S.L., comprenant le prononcé d'une amende de 10 000 ⏠pour des manquements en lien avec la sécurité des données de santé.Cette affaire débute par une plainte dé...
And companies are getting caught in the crossfire interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting ca...
A popular Russian bulletproof hosting service provider named Media Land was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and international partners for its alleged support of ransomware gangs and other cybercriminal operations.
The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that theyâre calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically...
One of the more surprising â and least visible â frontiers of artificial intelligence today is unfolding at the extreme edges of our hyper-connected systems.
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Amazon threat intelligence experts have documented two cases in which Iran leveraged hacking to prepare for kinetic attacks.
The post Amazon Details Iranâs Cyber-Enabled Kinetic Attacks Linking Digital Spying to Physical Strikes appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The company said the boundaries between cyber and physical attacks are dissolving as nation-states use network intrusions to aid military targeting in real time.
The post Amazon warns of global rise in specialized cyber-enabled kinetic targeting appeared first on CyberScoop.
The cybersecurity company has launched Digital Security Teammate (DST), AI agents that investigate, triage, and escalate incidents when needed.
The post Secure.com Raises $4.5 Million for Agentic Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
The Ontario and Alberta information and privacy commissionersâ reports fault the school systems for several missteps, including not putting privacy and security related provisions in their contracts with the education software firm.
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Landlords use it to decide who gets a home. Insurance companies use it to decide who gets health care. ICE uses it to decide who must submit to location tracking by electronic monitoring. Bosses use it to decide who gets fired, an...
A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload. [...]
Tips to better protect your network over extended breaks.
Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro RĂŒegge, 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...
The newly imposed sanctions target Russian-based web host Media Land, which officials say are linked to LockBit and BlackSuit ransomware attacks.
Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro RĂŒegge, 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...
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.
On October 11th, 2025, we received a submission for an Account Takeover via Email Log Disclosure vulnerability in Post SMTP, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to view email logs, including password res...