Microsoft warns of Windows smart card auth issues after October updates
Microsoft says the October 2025 Windows security updates are causing smart card authentication and certificate issues due to a change designed to strengthen the Windows…
Month: October 2025
What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services’s key US-EAST-1 region, its hub near the United States capitol in northern Virginia, caused widespread disruptions…
Chinese gangs made over $1 billion targeting Americans with scam texts
We regularly warn our readers about new scams and phishing texts. Almost everyone gets pestered with these messages. But where are all these scam texts…
131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension…
AWS confirms it is working to ‘fully restore’ services after major outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it is working to “fully restore” its customers’ cloud environments, after an “operational issue” within its North Virginia datacentre region…
CAPI Backdoor targets Russia’s auto and e-commerce sectors
CAPI Backdoor targets Russia’s auto and e-commerce sectors Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2025 A new campaign targets Russia’s auto and e-commerce sectors using a previously…
Reflected XSS: Advanced Exploitation Guide
Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are, by no doubt, one of the vulnerability types that’ll keep haunting applications for a long time. This seamless injection bug can…
Dolby Digital Plus 0-Click Vulnerability Enables RCE Attack via Malicious Audio on Android
A critical zero-click vulnerability in Dolby Digital Plus (DDP) audio decoding software has been disclosed, allowing attackers to execute malicious code remotely via seemingly innocuous…
Behind the struggle for control of the CVE program
On April 16, less than a month after nonprofit R&D organization MITRE celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) effort, the…
AWS Outage Impacts Amazon, Snapchat, Prime Video, Canva and More
A widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday disrupted operations for millions of users worldwide, knocking out access to everything from streaming giants to…
The Invisible Shield: How Security Graphs Are Fortifying Our Nation’s Backbone
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have issued urgent warnings about a growing wave of ransomware gangs and unsophisticated cyber actors targeting U.S.…
Data Storage: The Hidden Engine Behind AI’s Rise
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 20, 2025 – Read the full story in Business Insider AI…