Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets
More than half of adults in the UK are using mobile wallets as older generations increasingly adopt the technology, with cash payments falling below 10%…
Month: October 2025
Canadian Airline WestJet Says Hackers Stole Customer Data
Canadian airline WestJet this week confirmed that customer personal information was stolen in a June 2025 cyberattack. The incident, disclosed on June 13, involved unauthorized…
New Battering RAM Attack Bypasses Latest Defenses on Intel and AMD Cloud Processors
Confidential computing promised to protect sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Yet a new low-cost hardware attack, Battering RAM, demonstrates that even up-to-date memory-encryption schemes…
New FlipSwitch Hooking Method Overcomes Linux Kernel Defenses
A novel rootkit hooking method dubbed FlipSwitch has emerged, circumventing the latest Linux 6.9 kernel dispatch safeguards and reigniting concerns over kernel-level compromise. By manipulating…
Descope Raises $35 Million in Seed Round Extension
Identity and access management (IAM) provider Descope has announced raising $35 million in a seed funding extension that brings the total raised by the company…
Apple urges users to update iPhone and Mac to patch font bug
Apple urges users to update iPhone and Mac to patch font bug Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2025 Apple released iOS and macOS updates to fix…
Red Hat Openshift AI Service Vulnerability Allow Attackers to Take Control of the Infrastructure
Red Hat published security advisory CVE-2025-10725, detailing an Important severity flaw in the OpenShift AI Service that could enable low-privileged attackers to elevate their permissions…
New DNS Malware ‘Detour Dog’ Uses TXT Records to Deliver Strela Stealer
Detour Dog, a stealthy website malware campaign tracked since August 2023, has evolved from redirecting victims to tech-support scams into a sophisticated DNS-based command-and-control (C2)…
Too many Cisco ASA firewalls still unsecure despite zero-day attack alerts
Despite Cisco and various cybersecurity agencies warning about attackers actively exploting zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362) in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) for months, there…
North Wales Police pilots hybrid quantum emergency response
North Wales Police (NWP) has worked with D-Wave on a proof-of-concept hybrid quantum computing application to optimise the placement of police vehicles for emergency response.…
CMMC is coming, but most contractors still have a long road to full compliance
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Barely any U.S. defense contractors…
New Chinese Nexus APT Hackers Attacking Organizations to Deliver NET-STAR Malware Suite
In recent weeks, security teams worldwide have observed a surge in covert operations orchestrated by a clandestine group known colloquially as the “Chinese Nexus” APT.…