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Trump Administration Issues New AI Executive Order

How should organizations respond to the new AI executive order?

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VolkLocker Ransomware Exposed by Hard-Coded Master Key Allowing Free Decryption

The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker that suffers from implementation lapses in test artifacts, allowing users to decrypt files without paying an extortion fee. According to SentinelOne, VolkLocker (aka CyberVolk 2.x) emerged in August 2025 and is capable of targeting both Windows

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Sierra Wireless Router Flaw Enabling RCE Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score: 8.8/9.9) refers to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code

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Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in the wild, one of which is the same flaw that was patched by Google in Chrome earlier this week. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-43529 (CVSS score: N/A) - A use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit

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Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that's leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT. "These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible for silently downloading a remote HTA file and executing

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In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, Small macOS Bounties, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Pentagon orders accelerated move to PQC, US shuts down scheme to smuggle GPUs to China, DroidLock Android ransomware. The post In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, Small macOS Bounties, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Advanced Phishing Kits Use AI and MFA Bypass Tactics to Steal Credentials at Scale

Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that are capable of facilitating credential theft at scale. BlackForce, first detected in August 2025, is designed to steal credentials and perform Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks to capture one-time passwords (OTPs) and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The kit

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True Hacking Story: From Teen Computer Whiz To Crypto Godfather

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 12, 2025 –Watch the YouTube video In early 2025, self-proclaimed crypto Godfather Adam Iza pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in a conspiracy that targeted multiple victims in Los Angeles and had ties The post True Hacking Story: From Teen Computer Whiz To Crypto Godfather appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Gladinet CentreStack Flaw Exploited to Hack Organizations

Threat actors have hacked at least nine organizations by exploiting the recently patched Gladinet CentreStack flaw. The post Gladinet CentreStack Flaw Exploited to Hack Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fieldtex Data Breach Impacts 238,000

The Akira ransomware group took credit for the Fieldtex Products hack in November, claiming to have stolen 14 Gb of data. The post Fieldtex Data Breach Impacts 238,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Recent GeoServer Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

Because user input is not sufficiently sanitized, attackers could exploit the flaw to define external entities within an XML request. The post Recent GeoServer Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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MITRE Releases 2025 List of Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Vulnerabilities

XSS remains the top software weakness, followed by SQL injection and CSRF. Buffer overflow issues and improper access control make it to top 25. The post MITRE Releases 2025 List of Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Expanded to Third-Party Code

All critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft, third-party, and open source code are eligible for rewards if they impact Microsoft services. The post Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Expanded to Third-Party Code appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Notepad++ Patches Updater Flaw After Reports of Traffic Hijacking

Notepad++ found a vulnerability in the way the software updater authenticates update files.  The post Notepad++ Patches Updater Flaw After Reports of Traffic Hijacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Securing GenAI in the Browser: Policy, Isolation, and Data Controls That Actually Work

The browser has become the main interface to GenAI for most enterprises: from web-based LLMs and copilots, to GenAI‑powered extensions and agentic browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Employees are leveraging the power of GenAI to draft emails, summarize documents, work on code, and analyze data, often by copying/pasting sensitive information directly into prompts or uploading files.  Traditional

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New React RSC Vulnerabilities Enable DoS and Source Code Exposure

The React team has released fixes for two new types of flaws in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in denial-of-service (DoS) or source code exposure. The team said the issues were found by the security community while attempting to exploit the patches released for CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical bug in RSC that has since been weaponized in

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React2Shell Exploitation Escalates into Large-Scale Global Attacks, Forcing Emergency Mitigation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged federal agencies to patch the recent React2Shell vulnerability by December 12, 2025, amid reports of widespread exploitation. The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS score: 10.0), affects the React Server Components (RSC) Flight protocol. The underlying cause of the issue is an unsafe deserialization

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$320,000 Paid Out at Zeroday.Cloud for Open Source Software Exploits

Participants earned rewards at the hacking competition for Grafana, Linux Kernel, Redis, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL vulnerabilities. The post $320,000 Paid Out at Zeroday.Cloud for Open Source Software Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Flags Actively Exploited GeoServer XXE Flaw in Updated KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-58360 (CVSS score: 8.2), an unauthenticated XML External Entity (XXE) flaw that affects all versions prior to

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Trump Signs Executive Order to Block State AI Regulations

Members of Congress from both parties have pushed for more regulations on AI, saying there is not enough oversight for the powerful technology. The post Trump Signs Executive Order to Block State AI Regulations appeared first on SecurityWeek.