Japan has been struck by a new wave of cyberattacks involving CrossC2, a tool that extends the capabilities of Cobalt Strike to Linux and macOS platforms. According to the JPCERT/CC Coordination Center, these attacks...
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CrowdStrike has released its Global Threat Report 2025, documenting a profound shift in the behavior of both cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups. Analysts have described 2024 as “the year of the enterprising adversary”—threat actors are...
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Google has introduced a new requirement for developers of cryptocurrency exchange and wallet applications, mandating that they obtain official government licenses prior to publication. The company explains that this initiative is intended to foster...
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Aced Aced is a tool to parse and resolve a single targeted Active Directory principal’s DACL. Aced will identify interesting inbound access allowed privileges against the targeted account, resolve the SIDS of the inbound...
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The Trustwave SpiderLabs research team has documented a fresh wave of EncryptHub attacks, in which the human element and the exploitation of a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) vulnerability converge into a single, cohesive campaign....
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A newly discovered attack on the HTTP/2 protocol, dubbed MadeYouReset, has been unveiled by researchers from Tel Aviv University and disclosed following coordinated reporting through Akamai’s bug bounty program. Although Akamai’s own HTTP/2 implementation...
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The Muddled Libra network—also known as Scattered Spider or Octo Tempest—lacks the rigid hierarchy and centralized control typical of many cybercriminal organizations. Instead, it resembles a loosely connected community of individual threat actors, bound...
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Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even...
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Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit 8200—specializing in cyber-espionage and electronic surveillance—has been using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store a vast archive of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank. This trove, leveraged...
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Google has announced that the protected KVM (pKVM) hypervisor, used within the Android Virtualization Framework, has become the world’s first software component for mass-market consumer electronics to achieve the SESIP Level 5 security certification....
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Microsoft has alerted Windows 11 users to a new false notification that appears after installing the July 2025 preview update and subsequent 24H2 releases. The issue is linked to the CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) component and...
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Microsoft has released a new video interview with Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows, in which he outlined the company’s vision for the platform’s evolution and the transformative role artificial intelligence will play. When asked...
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Fortinet has disclosed a critical vulnerability in its FortiSIEM system, already accompanied by a working exploit circulating publicly. The flaw enables a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the targeted system, making...
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The Matrix Foundation, the organization behind the eponymous federated communication protocol, has announced the release of an unscheduled update addressing two high-severity vulnerabilities which, if successfully exploited, could have had critical consequences. According to...
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Although passkeys are promoted as a passwordless, phishing-resistant, and inherently secure authentication method, Proofpoint researchers warn that such protection can be bypassed with relative ease. Under certain conditions, an attacker can force a user...
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Whonix 17.4, a distribution purpose-built for uncompromising anonymity online, has been released. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, the system routes all network traffic exclusively through Tor, with its source code available under the GPLv3 license....
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Several years ago, Google engineers began developing the Address Space Isolation (ASI) mechanism for the Linux kernel, designed to shield systems from attacks exploiting speculative processor execution. The aim was to create a universal...
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Researchers have reported a sharp surge in credential-stuffing attempts targeting Fortinet devices with SSL VPN enabled. On August 3, 2025, GreyNoise detected a wave of suspicious traffic involving more than 780 distinct IP addresses....
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Microsoft has announced that in three months, devices running Windows 11 version 23H2 in the Home and Pro editions will cease to receive updates. Support for Enterprise and Education editions will continue until November...
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have unveiled a novel attack against AMD’s SEV-SNP hardware isolation mechanism, enabling a hypervisor-level adversary to extract sensitive data from protected virtual machines. Dubbed Heracles, the attack demonstrates how to...
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