Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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AMD Warns of New Transient Scheduler Attacks Impacting a Wide Range of CPUs

Semiconductor company AMD is warning of a new set of vulnerabilities affecting a broad range of chipsets that could lead to information disclosure. The attacks, called Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA), manifests in the form of a speculative side channel in its CPUs that leverages execution timing of instructions under specific microarchitectural conditions. "In some cases, an attacker may be

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AirMDR Raises $15.5 Million for MDR Solution

AI-powered MDR provider AirMDR has raised $15.5 million in funding (seed and infusion investment) to support its R&D efforts. The post AirMDR Raises $15.5 Million for MDR Solution appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ServiceNow Flaw CVE-2025-3648 Could Lead to Data Exposure via Misconfigured ACLs

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ServiceNow's platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in data exposure and exfiltration. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3648 (CVSS score: 8.2), has been described as a case of data inference in Now Platform through conditional access control list (ACL) rules. It has been codenamed Count(er) Strike. "A vulnerability has

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Gold Melody IAB Exploits Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys for Unauthorized Access to Targets

The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that access to other threat actors. The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker TGR-CRI-0045, where "TGR" stands for "temporary group" and "CRI" refers to criminal motivation.

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Threat Actor Targeting Indian Defense Sector

A threat actor based in Pakistan (APT36) has engaged in a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign.

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OT Security Responsibility Is Elevating to Executive Leadership

New research delves into the state of operational technology (OT) cybersecurity. 

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DoNot APT Expands Operations, Targets European Foreign Ministries with LoptikMod Malware

A threat actor with suspected ties to India has been observed targeting a European foreign affairs ministry with malware capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised hosts. The activity has been attributed by Trellix Advanced Research Center to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called DoNot Team, which is also known as APT-C-35, Mint Tempest, Origami Elephant, SECTOR02, and

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Nippon Steel Subsidiary Blames Data Breach on Zero-Day Attack

Nippon Steel Solutions has disclosed a data breach that resulted from the exploitation of a zero-day in network equipment. The post Nippon Steel Subsidiary Blames Data Breach on Zero-Day Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Samsung Announces Security Improvements for Galaxy Smartphones

New Samsung Galaxy features include protections for on-device AI, expanded cross-device threat detection, and quantum-resistant encryption for network security. The post Samsung Announces Security Improvements for Galaxy Smartphones appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned a member of a North Korean hacking group called Andariel for their role in the infamous remote information technology (IT) worker scheme. The Treasury said Song Kum Hyok, a 38-year-old North Korean national with an address in the Chinese province of Jilin, enabled the fraudulent operation by using

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ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Schneider, Phoenix Contact

Industrial solutions providers Siemens, Schneider Electric and Phoenix Contact have released July 2025 Patch Tuesday ICS security advisories. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Schneider, Phoenix Contact appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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How To Automate Ticket Creation, Device Identification and Threat Triage With Tines

Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features over 1,000 pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community - all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition. A recent standout is a workflow that handles malware alerts with CrowdStrike, Oomnitza, GitHub, and PagerDuty. Developed by Lucas Cantor at

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Unpatched Ruckus Vulnerabilities Allow Wireless Environment Hacking

Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruckus Wireless management products could be exploited to fully compromise the managed environments. The post Unpatched Ruckus Vulnerabilities Allow Wireless Environment Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Canadian Electric Utility Says Power Meters Disrupted by Cyberattack

Nova Scotia Power is notifying individuals affected by the recent data breach, including in the United States. The post Canadian Electric Utility Says Power Meters Disrupted by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chinese Hacker Xu Zewei Arrested for Ties to Silk Typhoon Group and U.S. Cyber Attacks

A Chinese national has been arrested in Milan, Italy, for his alleged links to a state-sponsored hacking group known as Silk Typhoon and for carrying out cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies. The 33-year-old, Xu Zewei, has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain information by unauthorized access to protected

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Ivanti, Fortinet, Splunk Release Security Updates

Ivanti, Fortinet, and Splunk have released patches for critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities in their products. The post Ivanti, Fortinet, Splunk Release Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Patches 130 Vulnerabilities, Including Critical Flaws in SPNEGO and SQL Server

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly known. The patches resolve a whopping 130 vulnerabilities, along with 10 other non-Microsoft CVEs that affect Visual Studio, AMD, and its Chromium-based Edge browser. Of these 10 are rated Critical and the

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Alleged Chinese State Hacker Wanted by US Arrested in Italy

Xu Zewei has been arrested on charges that he is a member of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Hafnium (Silk Typhoon). The post Alleged Chinese State Hacker Wanted by US Arrested in Italy appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 137 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software. None of the weaknesses addressed this month are known to be actively exploited, but 14 of the flaws earned Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, meaning they could be exploited to seize control over vulnerable Windows PCs with little or no help from users.

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Adobe Patches Critical Code Execution Bugs

Adobe patches were also released for medium-severity flaws in After Effects, Audition, Dimension, Experience Manager Screens, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Substance 3D Stager, and Substance 3D Viewer. The post Adobe Patches Critical Code Execution Bugs appeared first on SecurityWeek.