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Top Secret National Defense Documents
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Jun
2025

Ex-CIA Analyst Sentenced to 37 Months for Leaking Top Secret National Defense Documents

Jun 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananEspionage / National Security A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst has been sentenced to little…

Iran Restricts Internet Access
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Jun
2025

Iran Slows Internet to Prevent Cyber Attacks Amid Escalating Regional Conflict

Jun 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananHacktivism / Cyber Warfare Iran has throttled internet access in the country in a purported attempt to…

Critical RCE Bug Rated 9.9 CVSS in Backup & Replication
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Jun
2025

Critical RCE Bug Rated 9.9 CVSS in Backup & Replication

Jun 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Veeam has rolled out patches to contain a critical security flaw impacting its…

Google Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2025-2783 Exploited by TaxOff to Deploy Trinper Backdoor
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Jun
2025

Google Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2025-2783 Exploited by TaxOff to Deploy Trinper Backdoor

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage A now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome was exploited as a zero-day by…

LangChain LangSmith Bug
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Jun
2025

LangSmith Bug Could Expose OpenAI Keys and User Data via Malicious Agents

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / LLM Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched security flaw in LangChain’s LangSmith platform that…

How to Protect Your Backups
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Jun
2025

How to Protect Your Backups

Ransomware has become a highly coordinated and pervasive threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Today’s ransomware…

Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware
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Jun
2025

Silver Fox APT Targets Taiwan with Complex Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Email Security Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that’s targeting users in…

Password in Sitecore XP
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Jun
2025

Hard-Coded ‘b’ Password in Sitecore XP Sparks Major RCE Risk in Enterprise Deployments

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Software Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in the popular Sitecore Experience Platform…

Scattered Spider Attacks Targeting IT Support Teams
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Jun
2025

Google Warns of Scattered Spider Attacks Targeting IT Support Teams at U.S. Insurance Firms

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Identity Security The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider (aka UNC3944) that recently…

Forgotten AD Service Accounts
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Jun
2025

Are Forgotten AD Service Accounts Leaving You at Risk?

For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose…

New Flodrix Botnet Variant
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Jun
2025

New Flodrix Botnet Variant Exploits Langflow AI Server RCE Bug to Launch DDoS Attacks

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new campaign that’s actively exploiting a recently…

TP-Link Router Flaw
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Jun
2025

TP-Link Router Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / IoT Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a…