China-linked Murky Panda targets and moves laterally through cloud services

In its recently released 2025 Threat Hunting Report, Crowdstrike pointed out an interesting trend: a 136% surge in cloud intrusions. A good chunk of this surge is due to “China-nexus adversaries”, Murky Panda (aka Silk Typhoon) among them. … Continue reading China-linked Murky Panda targets and moves laterally through cloud services

Russian threat actors using old Cisco bug to target critical infrastructure orgs

A threat group linked to the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16 unit has been compromising unpatched and end-of-life Cisco networking devices via an old vulnerability (CVE-2018-0171), the FBI and Cisco warned on Wednesday. “… Continue reading Russian threat actors using old Cisco bug to target critical infrastructure orgs

AWS Trusted Advisor flaw allowed public S3 buckets to go unflagged

AWS’s Trusted Advisor tool, which is supposed to warn customers if their (cloud) S3 storage buckets are publicly exposed, could be “tricked” into reporting them as not exposed when they actually are, Fog Security researchers have found. S3 … Continue reading AWS Trusted Advisor flaw allowed public S3 buckets to go unflagged

Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300)

Apple has fixed yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that has apparently been exploited as a zero-day “in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” About CVE-2025-43300 CVE-2025-43300 is an out-of-bound… Continue reading Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300)

Alleged Rapper Bot DDoS botnet master arrested, charged

US federal prosecutors have charged a man with running Rapper Bot, a powerful botnet that was rented out to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks around the world. According to court documents, 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Eugen… Continue reading Alleged Rapper Bot DDoS botnet master arrested, charged

Commvault plugs holes in backup suite that allow remote code execution

Commvault has fixed four security vulnerabilities that may allow unauthenticated attackers to compromise on-premises deployments of its flagship backup and replication suite. Technical details about the vulnerabilities have been published on Wednesday … Continue reading Commvault plugs holes in backup suite that allow remote code execution

Exploit for critical SAP Netweaver flaws released (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999)

A working exploit concatenating two critical SAP Netweaver vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999) that have been previously exploited in the wild has been made public by VX Underground, Onapsis security researchers have warned. The exploit ha… Continue reading Exploit for critical SAP Netweaver flaws released (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999)

Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure

Three families of Android VPN apps, with a combined 700 million-plus Google Play downloads, are secretly linked, according to a group of researchers from Arizona State University and Citizen Lab. Finding the secret links Virtual private networks (VPNs)… Continue reading Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure

Noodlophile infostealer is hiding behind fake copyright and PI infringement notices

Attackers pushing the Noodlophile infostealer are targeting businesses with spear-phishing emails threatening legal action due to copyright or intellectual property infringement, Morphisec researchers have warned. The campaign The emails, ostensibly se… Continue reading Noodlophile infostealer is hiding behind fake copyright and PI infringement notices

Brute-force attacks hammer Fortinet devices worldwide

A surge in brute-force attempts targeting Fortinet SSL VPNs that was spotted earlier this month could be a portent of imminent attacks leveraging currently undisclosed (potentially zero-day) vulnerabilities in Fortinet devices. Shifting attacks Greynoi… Continue reading Brute-force attacks hammer Fortinet devices worldwide