Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote…
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Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025
Throughout 2025, Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage highlighted the human and socio-technical impacts of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included a number…
Critical 0-Day RCE Vulnerability in Networking Devices Exposes 70,000+ Hosts
A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in XSpeeder’s SXZOS firmware, affecting tens of thousands of SD-WAN appliances, edge routers, and smart TV controllers deployed…
2025 exposed the risks we ignored while rushing AI
This blog is part of a series where we highlight new or fast-evolving threats in the consumer security landscape. This one looks at how the…
How to Integrate AI into Modern SOC Workflows
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into security operations quickly, but many practitioners are still struggling to turn early experimentation into consistent operational value.…
Top 10 European IT stories of 2025
In this year’s review of Computer Weekly’s coverage of IT stories in continental Europe, we feature developments in the Netherlands, France, Norway, Sweden and Spain.…
70,000+ MongoDB Servers Vulnerable to MongoBleed Exploit
A critical vulnerability in MongoDB Server is putting tens of thousands of databases worldwide at risk. Dubbed MongoBleed and tracked as CVE-2025-14847, this high-severity flaw allows unauthenticated attackers…
Top 10 IT careers and skills stories of 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) played a significant role in the tech skills landscape in 2025, from helping teachers do their jobs to becoming a vital skill…
Hackers Exploit Copilot Studio’s New Connected Agents Feature to Gain Backdoor Access
Microsoft’s newly unveiled “Connected Agents” feature in Copilot Studio, announced at Build 2025, is creating a significant security vulnerability. Attackers are already exploiting to gain…
Mustang Panda Uses Signed Kernel-Mode Rootkit to Load TONESHELL Backdoor
Dec 30, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage The Chinese hacking group known as Mustang Panda has leveraged a previously undocumented kernel-mode rootkit driver to deliver…
Top 10 information management stories of 2025
No data, no artificial intelligence (AI) party. Without data, AI – whether traditional, generative, or agentic – cannot exist. No surprise, then, that the vogue…
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in MongoDB Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in MongoDB Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…