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The Hague, Netherlands, 7th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Improper authorization in Azure Windows Virtual Machine Agent allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Update Service (CVE-2025-48799) vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Improper link resolution before file access (‘link following’) in the Windows Update Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges to “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM”. 🛠 An exploit for this vulnerability was published by researcher Filip Dragović (Wh04m1001) […]

Secrets managers hold all the keys to an enterprise's kingdom. Two popular ones had longstanding, critical, unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities.

A SecAlliance report reveals Chinese smishing syndicates compromised 115M US payment cards by bypassing MFA to exploit Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

A vulnerability was found in Keycloak-services. Special characters used during e-mail registration may perform SMTP Injection and unexpectedly send short unwanted e-mails. The email is limited to 64 characters (limited local part of the email), so the attack is limited to very shorts emails (subject and little data, the example is 60 chars). This flaw's only direct consequence is an unsolicited email being sent from the Keycloak server. However, this action could be a precursor for more sophisticated attacks.

## Summary It was discovered that the github.com/go-acme/lego/v4/acme/api package (thus the lego library and the lego cli as well) don't enforce HTTPS when talking to CAs as an ACME client. ## Details Unlike the http-01 challenge which solves an ACME challenge over unencrypted HTTP, the ACME protocol requires HTTPS when a client communicates with the CA to performs ACME functions. This is stated in 6.1 of RFC 8555: [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555#section-6.1](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555#section-6.1) > Each ACME function is accomplished by the client sending a sequence > of HTTPS requests to the server [[RFC2818](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2818)], carrying JSON messages > [[RFC8259](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259)]. Use of HTTPS is REQUIRED. Each subsection of [Section 7](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555#section-7) > below describes the message formats used by the function and the > order in which messages ...

KLM confirms a data breach exposing customer info via a third-party system, affecting names, contact details and Flying Blue membership data.

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle "Toha." Here's a deep dive on what's knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.