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Certain motherboard models from ASRock, ASUSTeK Computer, GIGABYTE, and MSI contain UEFI flaws that leave systems vulnerable to early-boot DMA attacks due to IOMMU misconfiguration.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Certain motherboard models from ASRock, ASUSTeK Computer, GIGABYTE, and MSI contain UEFI flaws that leave systems vulnerable to early-boot DMA attacks due to IOMMU misconfiguration.
December 2025 Windows security updates changed MSMQ permissions, causing MSMQ and IIS application failures until an out-of-band fix (KB5074976) is applied.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
December 2025 Windows security updates changed MSMQ permissions, causing MSMQ and IIS application failures until an out-of-band fix (KB5074976) is applied.
Choose security partners with full SIA compliance, comprehensive insurance, experienced personnel, advanced technology, and proven operational standards to ensure effective protection.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Choose security partners with full SIA compliance, comprehensive insurance, experienced personnel, advanced technology, and proven operational standards to ensure effective protection.
Technicians made at least ten mistakes during a firewall upgrade that prevented emergency-call routing and contributed to two deaths.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Technicians made at least ten mistakes during a firewall upgrade that prevented emergency-call routing and contributed to two deaths.
China's CENI is a nationwide high-speed research network linking 40 cities with 55,000 km of fiber, designed to accelerate networking innovation and cyber capabilities.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
China's CENI is a nationwide high-speed research network linking 40 cities with 55,000 km of fiber, designed to accelerate networking innovation and cyber capabilities.
A Flight protocol validation failure in React Server Components and Next.js (React2Shell, CVE-2025-55182) enables unauthenticated remote code execution and rapid ransomware deployment.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A Flight protocol validation failure in React Server Components and Next.js (React2Shell, CVE-2025-55182) enables unauthenticated remote code execution and rapid ransomware deployment.
AI voice cloning can use just seconds of audio from social media or voicemail to impersonate loved ones and trick people into sending money.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
AI voice cloning can use just seconds of audio from social media or voicemail to impersonate loved ones and trick people into sending money.
Embedded browsers in devices such as smart TVs, e-readers, and cars are often years out of date and expose users to known security vulnerabilities.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Embedded browsers in devices such as smart TVs, e-readers, and cars are often years out of date and expose users to known security vulnerabilities.
ICE is renewing a cybersecurity contract to expand monitoring, collection, and sharing of employee digital activity for security and internal investigations.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ICE is renewing a cybersecurity contract to expand monitoring, collection, and sharing of employee digital activity for security and internal investigations.
Stolen AWS IAM credentials with admin-like privileges are being used to run cryptominers on ECS and EC2, causing customers to incur resource charges.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Stolen AWS IAM credentials with admin-like privileges are being used to run cryptominers on ECS and EC2, causing customers to incur resource charges.
LongNosedGoblin uses Group Policy and cloud services for C2 to deploy custom C# malware, conducting cyber espionage against Southeast Asian and Japanese government entities.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
LongNosedGoblin uses Group Policy and cloud services for C2 to deploy custom C# malware, conducting cyber espionage against Southeast Asian and Japanese government entities.
Cybercriminals can access WhatsApp conversations in real time by exploiting device pairing with a malicious link, without needing passwords or account credentials.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Cybercriminals can access WhatsApp conversations in real time by exploiting device pairing with a malicious link, without needing passwords or account credentials.
North Korean state-backed cybercriminals stole just over $2 billion in cryptocurrencies in 2025, a 51% increase and 76% of centralized-service compromises.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
North Korean state-backed cybercriminals stole just over $2 billion in cryptocurrencies in 2025, a 51% increase and 76% of centralized-service compromises.
DXS International suffered a December 14 server cyberattack, contained with minimal service impact, and notified authorities amid claims that 300 gigabytes of data were stolen.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
DXS International suffered a December 14 server cyberattack, contained with minimal service impact, and notified authorities amid claims that 300 gigabytes of data were stolen.
Somalia's e-visa website is insecure, allowing mass downloads of e-visas that expose passport numbers, full names, and dates of birth.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Somalia's e-visa website is insecure, allowing mass downloads of e-visas that expose passport numbers, full names, and dates of birth.
HPE OneView contains a maximum-severity RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-37164) fixed in version 11.00; hotfixes are available for earlier releases.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
HPE OneView contains a maximum-severity RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-37164) fixed in version 11.00; hotfixes are available for earlier releases.
A zero-day in SonicWall SMA 1000 (CVE-2025-40602) is actively exploited, enabling privilege escalation and, when chained, unauthenticated RCE with root access.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A zero-day in SonicWall SMA 1000 (CVE-2025-40602) is actively exploited, enabling privilege escalation and, when chained, unauthenticated RCE with root access.
Attackers increasingly repurpose existing tools and exploit exposed AI servers, leaked tokens, and social-engineering SMS scams, accelerating the cyber threat landscape.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Attackers increasingly repurpose existing tools and exploit exposed AI servers, leaked tokens, and social-engineering SMS scams, accelerating the cyber threat landscape.
North Korea received roughly 59% of over $3.4 billion in stolen cryptocurrency in 2025, leveraging sophisticated laundering, insider access, AI deception, and social engineering.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
North Korea received roughly 59% of over $3.4 billion in stolen cryptocurrency in 2025, leveraging sophisticated laundering, insider access, AI deception, and social engineering.
EmeritOSS provides stability-focused maintenance and security patches for mature, unmaintained open-source projects like Kaniko, Kubeapps, and Ingress-NGINX.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
EmeritOSS provides stability-focused maintenance and security patches for mature, unmaintained open-source projects like Kaniko, Kubeapps, and Ingress-NGINX.
Pervasive AI copilots in SaaS create dynamic, multi-app data pathways that outpace traditional governance, exposing security, audit, and data-control blind spots.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Pervasive AI copilots in SaaS create dynamic, multi-app data pathways that outpace traditional governance, exposing security, audit, and data-control blind spots.
Fortinet and Arista deliver a modular Secure AI Data Center combining Fortinet security and ASIC offload with Arista low-latency networking for scalable, best-of-breed AI infrastructure.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fortinet and Arista deliver a modular Secure AI Data Center combining Fortinet security and ASIC offload with Arista low-latency networking for scalable, best-of-breed AI infrastructure.
North Korean-linked threat actors stole at least $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, driving a global surge and accounting for a record share of service compromises.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
North Korean-linked threat actors stole at least $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, driving a global surge and accounting for a record share of service compromises.
AI agents became the largest unmonitored attack surface, identity threats shifted to synthetic impersonation, and nation-states targeted AI models and training data.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
AI agents became the largest unmonitored attack surface, identity threats shifted to synthetic impersonation, and nation-states targeted AI models and training data.
A seized dataset of 630 million stolen credentials added to Have I Been Pwned included 46 million previously unseen vulnerable passwords, highlighting persistent credential risk.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A seized dataset of 630 million stolen credentials added to Have I Been Pwned included 46 million previously unseen vulnerable passwords, highlighting persistent credential risk.