259/68 Friday, July 18, 2025 Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new strain of malware, “BADBOX 2.0,” which has been found pre-installed in over one million Android-based IoT devices across 222 countries. This dangerous malware turns smart devices into proxy nodes in a global botnet, enabling cybercriminals to conduct large-scale fraud and malicious cyber activities. Due […]
258/68 Thursday, July 17, 2025 Belk, a major U.S. department store chain, has confirmed it was the target of a cyberattack between May 7–11, 2025. According to the company’s statement, unauthorized actors gained access to internal systems and exfiltrated sensitive company documents. The ransomware group “DragonForce” has claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it stole […]
257/68 Thursday, July 17, 2025 Cloudflare has released its Q2 2025 threat report, revealing that it mitigated over 7.3 million Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks during the quarter. Although this marks a drop from 20.5 million attacks in Q1, the severity of attacks has sharply increased. Notably, “hyper-volumetric DDoS” attacks-those involving massive data volumes-rose to 6,500 […]
256/68 Wednesday, July 16, 2025 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning about a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-1727, affecting End-of-Train (EoT) and Head-of-Train (HoT) systems—wireless communication platforms used to control train braking operations. The flaw, categorized under Weak Authentication (CWE-1390), could allow a malicious actor to remotely send spoofed brake commands […]
255/68 Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Cybersecurity researchers from Security Explorations have disclosed a major vulnerability in eSIM technology used in Kigen’s eUICC cards, potentially exposing billions of IoT devices worldwide to malicious attacks. The flaw stems from the use of test profiles defined by the GSMA TS.48 standard, specifically version 6.0 and earlier, which allows […]
254/68 Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Cybersecurity experts are warning of a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-47812, which has been actively exploited in the wild. The flaw affects Wing FTP Server software and carries a maximum CVSS severity score of 10.0 This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) with root or SYSTEM privileges. Alarmingly, exploitation […]
253/68 Tuesday, July 15, 2025 The global cybersecurity community is facing a rising threat from a covert operation involving fake IT workers linked to the North Korean government. These operatives are infiltrating international companies by applying for remote engineering and software development roles. Using seemingly legitimate résumés, they claim experience at top global firms or […]
252/68 Monday, July 14, 2025 Fortinet has released a patch to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25257, with a CVSS severity score of 9.6/10. The flaw affects FortiWeb devices and allows unauthenticated attackers to send specially crafted SQL commands via HTTP or HTTPS requests, potentially granting unauthorized access to the database or allowing execution […]
251/68 Monday, July 14, 2025 Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in McHire, the chatbot-powered hiring platform used by McDonald’s to recruit employees across the United States. The flaw exposed personal data and chat conversations from over 64 million job applications, primarily due to the system’s admin panel using weak default credentials—both the username […]
250/68 Wednesday, July 9, 2025 A group of hackers has stolen more than $140 million USD from six banks in Brazil by exploiting the credentials of an employee at C&M, a financial connectivity solutions provider. The incident occurred on June 30, when attackers tricked a C&M employee into handing over login information and executing specific […]
