August 2025 – Learn and Explore

August 30, 2025
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Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to Deploy Visual Studio Code for C2 Tunneling

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ongoing abuse of legitimate software for malicious purposes. “In this incident, the threat actor used the tool to download and execute Visual Studio...

August 30, 2025
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WhatsApp Issues Emergency Update for Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices

WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177 (CVSS score: 8.0), relates to a case of insufficient...

August 29, 2025
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Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain Linking Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution

Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below – CVE-2025-53693 – HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections CVE-2025-53691 – Remote code execution (RCE) through insecure...

August 29, 2025
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Abandoned Sogou Zhuyin Update Server Hijacked, Weaponized in Taiwan Espionage Campaign

An abandoned update server associated with input method editor (IME) software Sogou Zhuyin was leveraged by threat actors as part of an espionage campaign to deliver several malware families, including C6DOOR and GTELAM, in attacks primarily targeting users across Eastern Asia. “Attackers employed sophisticated infection chains, such as hijacked...

August 29, 2025
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Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign Abusing Microsoft Device Code Authentication

Amazon on Friday said it flagged and disrupted what it described as an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT29 actors as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. The campaign used “compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices...

August 29, 2025
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Can Your Security Stack See ChatGPT? Why Network Visibility Matters

Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are increasingly common in organizations. While these solutions improve efficiency across tasks, they also present new data leak prevention for generative AI challenges. Sensitive information may be shared through chat prompts, files uploaded for AI-driven summarization, or browser plugins that...

August 29, 2025
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Feds Seize $6.4M VerifTools Fake-ID Marketplace, but Operators Relaunch on New Domain

Authorities from the Netherlands and the United States have announced the dismantling of an illicit marketplace called VerifTools that peddled fraudulent identity documents to cybercriminals across the world. To that end, two marketplace domains (verif[.]tools and veriftools[.]net) and one blog have been taken down, redirecting site visitors to a...

August 29, 2025
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FreePBX Servers Targeted by Zero-Day Flaw, Emergency Patch Now Available

The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team has issued an advisory warning about an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability that impacts systems with an administrator control panel (ACP) exposed to the public internet. FreePBX is an open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform widely used by businesses, call centers, and service providers...

August 29, 2025
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Click Studios Patches Passwordstate Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Emergency Access Page

Click Studios, the developer of enterprise-focused password management solution Passwordstate, said it has released security updates to address an authentication bypass vulnerability in its software. The issue, which is yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, has been addressed in Passwordstate 9.9 (Build 9972), released August 28, 2025. The...

August 29, 2025
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Google Warns Salesloft OAuth Breach Extends Beyond Salesforce, Impacting All Integrations

Google has revealed that the recent wave of attacks targeting Salesforce instances via Salesloft Drift is much broader in scope than previously thought, stating it impacts all integrations. “We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat any and all authentication tokens stored in or connected to the Drift...