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Broadcom Patches 3 VMware Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild

Broadcom patched VMware zero-days CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225 and CVE-2025-22226 after Microsoft warned it of exploitation. The post Broadcom Patches 3 VMware Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Google Patches Pair of Exploited Vulnerabilities in Android

Android’s March 2025 security update addresses over 40 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited in the wild. The post Google Patches Pair of Exploited Vulnerabilities in Android appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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How New AI Agents Will Transform Credential Stuffing Attacks

Credential stuffing attacks had a huge impact in 2024, fueled by a vicious circle of infostealer infections and data breaches. But things could be about to get worse still with Computer-Using Agents, a new kind of AI agent that enables low-cost, low-effort automation of common web tasks — including those frequently performed by attackers. Stolen credentials: The cyber criminal’s weapon of choice

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Exploitation Long Known for Most of CISA’s Latest KEV Additions

Exploitation has been known for months or years for most of the latest vulnerabilities added by CISA to its KEV catalog. The post Exploitation Long Known for Most of CISA’s Latest KEV Additions appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Suspected Iranian Hackers Used Compromised Indian Firm's Email to Target U.A.E. Aviation Sector

Threat hunters are calling attention to a new highly-targeted phishing campaign that singled out "fewer than five" entities in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to deliver a previously undocumented Golang backdoor dubbed Sosano. The malicious activity was specifically directed against aviation and satellite communications organizations, according to Proofpoint, which detected it in late October

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Over 4,000 ISP IPs Targeted in Brute-Force Attacks to Deploy Info Stealers and Cryptominers

Internet service providers (ISPs) in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splunk Threat Research Team, which said the activity also led to the delivery of various binaries that facilitate data exfiltration as well as offer

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Cisco, Hitachi, Microsoft, and Progress Flaws Actively Exploited—CISA Sounds Alarm

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting software from Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Microsoft Windows, and Progress WhatsUp Gold to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-20118 (CVSS score: 6.5) - A command injection

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Google's March 2025 Android Security Update Fixes Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google has released its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025 to address a total of 44 vulnerabilities, including two that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2024-43093 - A privilege escalation flaw in the Framework component that could result in unauthorized access to "Android/data," "Android/obb,"

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CISA: No Change on Defending Against Russian Cyber Threats

The CISA public clarification follows news the Trump administration is temporarily pausing offensive cyber operations against Moscow. The post CISA: No Change on Defending Against Russian Cyber Threats appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Exploit AWS Misconfigurations to Launch Phishing Attacks via SES and WorkMail

Threat actors are targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to push out phishing campaigns to unsuspecting targets, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity cluster under the name TGR-UNK-0011 (short for a threat group with unknown motivation), which it said overlaps with a group known as JavaGhost. TGR-UNK-0011 is known to

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Kash Patel has been sworn in as Director of the FBI

Kash Patel has been sworn in as ninth Director of the FBI. 

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Hackers Use ClickFix Trick to Deploy PowerShell-Based Havoc C2 via SharePoint Sites

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new phishing campaign that employs the ClickFix technique to deliver an open-source command-and-control (C2) framework called Havoc. "The threat actor hides each malware stage behind a SharePoint site and uses a modified version of Havoc Demon in conjunction with the Microsoft Graph API to obscure C2 communications within trusted, well-known

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U.K. ICO Investigates TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur Over Children's Data Protection Practices

The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into online platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur to assess the steps they are taking to protect children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the country. To that end, the watchdog said it's probing how the ByteDance-owned video-sharing service uses the personal data of children in the age range to surface recommendations

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Hackers Exploit Paragon Partition Manager Driver Vulnerability in Ransomware Attacks

Threat actors have been exploiting a security vulnerability in Paragon Partition Manager's BioNTdrv.sys driver in ransomware attacks to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. The zero-day flaw (CVE-2025-0289) is part of a set of five vulnerabilities that was discovered by Microsoft, according to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC). "These include arbitrary kernel memory mapping and

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Nearly 1M records related to personal property were exposed

A property tracking and return service supporting multiple airports had nearly 1M records exposed.

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Quantum Wars: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Competing Paths to Fault-Tolerant Qubits

Amazon claims its researchers have combined cat qubit technology and additional quantum error correction components onto a microchip that can be manufactured in a scalable fashion. The post Quantum Wars: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Competing Paths to Fault-Tolerant Qubits appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mimic Raises $50 Million to Stop Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware defense startup Mimic has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The post Mimic Raises $50 Million to Stop Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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US Seizes $31 Million Worth of Crypto Stolen in Uranium Finance Hack

The US government has seized roughly $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen in 2021 from Uranium Finance. The post US Seizes $31 Million Worth of Crypto Stolen in Uranium Finance Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 28 Deals Announced in February 2025

Cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals announced in February 2025.  The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 28 Deals Announced in February 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vulnerable Paragon Driver Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware operators exploit a vulnerable Paragon driver in BYOVD attacks to elevate privileges to System. The post Vulnerable Paragon Driver Exploited in Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.