Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that's designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot. "PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems, including information theft, keylogging, reconnaissance, and the establishment of persistent system

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Zoom and Xerox Release Critical Security Updates Fixing Privilege Escalation and RCE Flaws

Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution.  The vulnerability impacting Zoom Clients for Windows, tracked as CVE-2025-49457 (CVSS score: 9.6), relates to a case of an untrusted search path that could pave the way for privilege escalation. "Untrusted search path in

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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Many Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel, AMD, Nvidia

Intel, AMD and Nvidia have published security advisories describing vulnerabilities found recently in their products. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Many Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel, AMD, Nvidia appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fortinet Warns About FortiSIEM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-25256) With In-the-Wild Exploit Code

Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in FortiSIEM for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25256, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiSIEM may allow an unauthenticated attacker to

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AI SOC 101: Key Capabilities Security Leaders Need to Know

Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is repetitive, time-consuming, and high-stakes, leaving SOCs under constant pressure to keep up, yet often struggling to stay ahead of emerging

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Manpower Says Data Breach Stemming From Ransomware Attack Impacts 140,000

The RansomHub ransomware group stole sensitive information from staffing and recruiting firm Manpower in January. The post Manpower Says Data Breach Stemming From Ransomware Attack Impacts 140,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Webinar: What the Next Wave of AI Cyberattacks Will Look Like — And How to Survive

The AI revolution isn’t coming. It’s already here. From copilots that write our emails to autonomous agents that can take action without us lifting a finger, AI is transforming how we work. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Attackers are evolving just as fast. Every leap forward in AI gives bad actors new tools — deepfake scams so real they trick your CFO, bots that can bypass human review,

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Fortinet, Ivanti Release August 2025 Security Patches

Fortinet and Ivanti have published new security advisories for their August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates.  The post Fortinet, Ivanti Release August 2025 Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday Fixes Kerberos Zero-Day Among 111 Total New Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for a massive set of 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including one flaw that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of the release. Of the 111 vulnerabilities, 16 are rated Critical, 92 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. Forty-four of the vulnerabilities relate to privilege

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ICS Patch Tuesday: Major Vendors Address Code Execution Vulnerabilities

August 2025 ICS Patch Tuesday advisories have been published by Siemens, Schneider, Aveva, Honeywell, ABB and Phoenix Contact. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Major Vendors Address Code Execution Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East's public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Micro, exhibited tactics mirroring those of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, such as DLL side-loading, process injection, and the ability

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28K Exchange Servers Remain Unpatched

CISA has issued an emergency directive in response to a vulnerability affecting hybrid Microsoft Exchange users.

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Adobe Patches Over 60 Vulnerabilities Across 13 Products

Adobe’s security updates fix vulnerabilities in Commerce, Substance, InDesign, FrameMaker, Dimension and other products. The post Adobe Patches Over 60 Vulnerabilities Across 13 Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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83% of Security Leaders Surveyed Claim Link Between Fraud and Other Crimes

Security leaders link fraud to other crimes.

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Bad Bots Made Up 31% of Holiday 2024 Traffic

Nearly a third of holiday traffic was made up of bots.

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Microsoft Patches Over 100 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates address critical vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and Hyper-V. The post Microsoft Patches Over 100 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users.

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Researchers Spot XZ Utils Backdoor in Dozens of Docker Hub Images, Fueling Supply Chain Risks

New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images have been built on top of these infected base images, effectively propagating the infection further in a transitive manner, Binarly REsearch said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The firmware

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Fortinet SSL VPNs Hit by Global Brute-Force Wave Before Attackers Shift to FortiManager

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "significant spike" in brute-force traffic aimed at Fortinet SSL VPN devices. The coordinated activity, per threat intelligence firm GreyNoise, was observed on August 3, 2025, with over 780 unique IP addresses participating in the effort. As many as 56 unique IP addresses have been detected over the past 24 hours. All the IP addresses have been

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Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses

An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand in hand, new findings show. "This latest wave of ShinyHunters-attributed attacks reveals a dramatic shift in tactics, moving beyond the group's previous credential theft and database