Category: CyberSecurityNews

Windows Defender Firewall Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Escalate Privileges
12
Sep
2025

Windows Defender Firewall Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Escalate Privileges

Microsoft has addressed four elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in its Windows Defender Firewall service, all rated as “Important” in severity….

Microsoft To Depreciate VBScript In Windows Warns Developers To Adapt Their Projects
12
Sep
2025

Microsoft To Depreciate VBScript In Windows Warns Developers To Adapt Their Projects

Microsoft has officially announced a multi-phase plan to deprecate VBScript in Windows, a move that signals a significant shift for…

Apple Warns Of Series Mercenary Spyware Attacks Targeting Users Devices
12
Sep
2025

Apple Warns Of Series Mercenary Spyware Attacks Targeting Users Devices

Apple has issued a warning regarding highly sophisticated “mercenary spyware” attacks targeting a select group of its users. The company’s…

VirtualBox 7.2.2 Released With Fix For GUI Crashes On Virtual Machines (guests)
12
Sep
2025

VirtualBox 7.2.2 Released With Fix For GUI Crashes On Virtual Machines (guests)

Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.2, a maintenance update for its open-source virtualization platform, focusing on improving stability and addressing a…

Microsoft Exchange Online Outage for Users Accessing Email via Exchange Online Methods
12
Sep
2025

Microsoft Exchange Online Outage for Users Accessing Email via Exchange Online Methods

Microsoft is investigating a significant Exchange Online service disruption that is preventing users in North and South America from accessing…

Microsoft Teams Introduces Automatic Alerts for Malicious Links from Attackers
12
Sep
2025

Microsoft Teams Introduces Automatic Alerts for Malicious Links from Attackers

Microsoft to enhance security for its Teams platform by automatically warning users about malicious links in chat messages. The new…

Conversation with Amazon’s Senior Software Development Engineer Naman Jain
11
Sep
2025

Conversation with Amazon’s Senior Software Development Engineer Naman Jain

To ensure the security of sensitive internet data, it takes more than encryption; it requires clear principles, careful design, and…

kkRAT Employs Network Communication Protocol to Steal Clipboard Contents
11
Sep
2025

kkRAT Employs Network Communication Protocol to Steal Clipboard Contents

In early May 2025, cybersecurity researchers began tracking a novel Remote Access Trojan (RAT) targeting Chinese-speaking users via phishing sites…

Kenyan Filmmakers Installed With FlexiSPY Spyware That Monitors Messages and Social Media
11
Sep
2025

Kenyan Filmmakers Installed With FlexiSPY Spyware That Monitors Messages and Social Media

Four Kenyan filmmakers became victims of sophisticated surveillance when FlexiSPY spyware was covertly installed on their devices while in police…

Lessons From Salesforce/Salesloft Drift Data Breaches
11
Sep
2025

Lessons From Salesforce/Salesloft Drift Data Breaches

The Salesloft Drift data breaches of August 2025 stand as one of the most significant supply chain attacks in SaaS…

New VMScape Spectre-BTI Attack Exploits Isolation Gaps in AMD and Intel CPUs
11
Sep
2025

New VMScape Spectre-BTI Attack Exploits Isolation Gaps in AMD and Intel CPUs

A novel speculative execution attack named VMSCAPE allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to breach its security boundaries and steal…

What You Need to Pay Attention to Right Now 
11
Sep
2025

What You Need to Pay Attention to Right Now 

Cyber attackers constantly refine their evasion methods. That’s what makes threats, including phishing, increasingly hard to detect and investigate. Kits…