September 2025 – Page 5 – Learn and Explore

September 23, 2025
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Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an “elaborate” online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million ($118 million) from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the coordinated action saw searches in five places across Spain...

September 23, 2025
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U.S. Secret Service Seizes 300 SIM Servers, 100K Cards Threatening U.S. Officials Near UN

The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it took down a network of electronic devices located across the New York tri-state area that were used to threaten U.S. government officials and posed an imminent threat to national security. “This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than...

September 23, 2025
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ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest. The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers to deploy a Go-based malware that turns...

September 23, 2025
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Lean Teams, Higher Stakes: Why CISOs Must Rethink Incident Remediation

Big companies are getting smaller, and their CEOs want everyone to know it. Wells Fargo has cut its workforce by 23% over five years, Bank of America has shed 88,000 employees since 2010, and Verizon’s CEO recently boasted that headcount is “going down all the time.” What was once...

September 23, 2025
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SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw

SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its Web Help Desk software that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-26399 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as an instance of deserialization of untrusted...

September 23, 2025
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GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security

GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near future” in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack. This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and self-replicating malware...

September 23, 2025
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BadIIS Malware Spreads via SEO Poisoning — Redirects Traffic, Plants Web Shells

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign likely undertaken by a Chinese-speaking threat actor using a malware called BadIIS in attacks targeting East and Southeast Asia, particularly with a focus on Vietnam. The activity, dubbed Operation Rewrite, is being tracked by Palo Alto...

September 22, 2025
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ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks

Organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia have emerged as the target of a phishing campaign undertaken by a previously undocumented hacking group called ComicForm since at least April 2025. The activity primarily targeted industrial, financial, tourism, biotechnology, research, and trade sectors, cybersecurity company F6 said in an analysis published...

September 22, 2025
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, AI Hacking Tools, DDR5 Bit-Flips, npm Worm & More

The security landscape now moves at a pace no patch cycle can match. Attackers aren’t waiting for quarterly updates or monthly fixes—they adapt within hours, blending fresh techniques with old, forgotten flaws to create new openings. A vulnerability closed yesterday can become the blueprint for tomorrow’s breach. This week’s...

September 22, 2025
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How to Gain Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities

We hear this a lot: “We’ve got hundreds of service accounts and AI agents running in the background. We didn’t create most of them. We don’t know who owns them. How are we supposed to secure them?” Every enterprise today runs on more than users. Behind the scenes, thousands...