October 2025 – Page 6 – Learn and Explore

October 22, 2025
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Chinese Threat Actors Exploit ToolShell SharePoint Flaw Weeks After Microsoft’s July Patch

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025. Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as government agencies in South...

October 22, 2025
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Bridging the Remediation Gap: Introducing Pentera Resolve

From Detection to Resolution: Why the Gap Persists A critical vulnerability is identified in an exposed cloud asset. Within hours, five different tools alert you about it: your vulnerability scanner, XDR, CSPM, SIEM, and CMDB each surface the issue in their own way, with different severity levels, metadata, and...

October 22, 2025
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Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases

The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more...

October 22, 2025
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware

Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed...

October 22, 2025
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TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in...

October 22, 2025
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TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution

TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS score: 8.6) – An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by...

October 21, 2025
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PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign targeting routers from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology with the goal of corralling them into a network for an as-yet-undetermined...

October 21, 2025
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Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams

Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them...

October 21, 2025
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Securing AI to Benefit from AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can’t match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the...

October 21, 2025
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Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network

A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon. The organization, per Darktrace, was targeted in the first week of July 2025, with the attackers exploiting a Citrix NetScaler Gateway appliance to...