Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
20 October 2025
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world attacks.
The security defect in question is CVE-2025-61884 (CVSS score: 7.5), which has been described as a
20 October 2025
South Korea faces public calls to take stronger action to protect its nationals from being forced into overseas online scam centers.
The post South Korea Seeks to Arrest Dozens of Online Scam Suspects Repatriated From Cambodia appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
The individuals ran a highly sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that caused roughly €5 million (~$5.8 million) in losses.
The post SIM Farm Dismantled in Europe, Seven Arrested appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
The identities of alleged core members of the Lumma Stealer group were exposed in an underground doxxing campaign.
The post Lumma Stealer Activity Drops After Doxxing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
Attackers could exploit vulnerable deployments to intercept and tamper with communications in certain configurations.
The post ConnectWise Patches Critical Flaw in Automate RMM Tool appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
It’s easy to think your defenses are solid — until you realize attackers have been inside them the whole time. The latest incidents show that long-term, silent breaches are becoming the norm. The best defense now isn’t just patching fast, but watching smarter and staying alert for what you don’t expect.
Here’s a quick look at this week’s top threats, new tactics, and security stories shaping
20 October 2025
ClickFix, FileFix, fake CAPTCHA — whatever you call it, attacks where users interact with malicious scripts in their web browser are a fast-growing source of security breaches.
ClickFix attacks prompt the user to solve some kind of problem or challenge in the browser — most commonly a CAPTCHA, but also things like fixing an error on a webpage.
The name is a little misleading, though
20 October 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale.
The 131 spamware extensions share the same codebase, design patterns, and infrastructure, according to supply chain security company Socket. The browser add-ons collectively have about 20,905 active users.
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20 October 2025
On Android, the out-of-bounds write issue can be triggered during the processing of media files without user interaction.
The post Vulnerability in Dolby Decoder Can Allow Zero-Click Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
The judge ruled that punitive damages of $167 million awarded by a jury were excessive.
The post NSO Ordered to Stop Hacking WhatsApp, but Damages Cut to $4 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
Envoy Air, which operates the American Eagle brand, has confirmed that business information was stolen by hackers.
The post American Airlines Subsidiary Envoy Air Hit by Oracle Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 October 2025
China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a "premeditated" cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a "hacker empire" and the "greatest source of chaos in cyberspace."
The Ministry of State Security (MSS), in a WeChat post, said it uncovered "irrefutable evidence" of the agency's involvement in the intrusion
19 October 2025
The Ministry of State Security alleged that the NSA exploited vulnerabilities in the messaging services of a foreign mobile phone brand to steal sensitive information.
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19 October 2025
Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud.
The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure of
18 October 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce sectors with a previously undocumented .NET malware dubbed CAPI Backdoor.
According to Seqrite Labs, the attack chain involves distributing phishing emails containing a ZIP archive as a way to trigger the infection. The cybersecurity company's analysis is based on the ZIP
18 October 2025
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins).
"The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links," Pei Han Liao, researcher with Fortinet's FortiGuard
17 October 2025
The U.S. is the top target for cyberattacks, with criminals and foreign adversaries targeting companies, governments and organizations.
The post Microsoft: Russia, China Increasingly Using AI to Escalate Cyberattacks on the US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
17 October 2025
77% of organizations have experienced insider-related data loss in the last 18 months.
17 October 2025
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Capita fined £14 million, ICTBroadcast vulnerability exploited, Spyware maker NSO acquired.
The post In Other News: CrowdStrike Vulnerabilities, CISA Layoffs, Mango Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
17 October 2025
The North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs, indicating that the hacking group is actively refining its toolset.
That's according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said recent campaigns undertaken by the hacking group have seen the functions of BeaverTail and OtterCookie coming