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U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in a London court to face accusations of hacking into and extorting several large U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and healthcare providers in the United States.

About Remote Code Execution – SAP NetWeaver (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999) vulnerability. SAP NetWeaver is the core SAP platform for running applications and integrating systems. Vulnerabilities were found in its Visual Composer component – a web tool for business app modeling. A lack of authorization checks (CVE-2025-31324) and insecure deserialization (CVE-2025-42999) allows unauthenticated attackers to perform remote […]

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the security vendor CrowdStrike, steals and publishes even more credentials every time an infected package is installed.

In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new data shows those sanctions have done little to stop Stark from simply rebranding and transferring their assets to other corporate entities controlled by its original hosting providers.

Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known "zero-day" or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month's bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for 13 flaws that earned Microsoft's most-dire "critical" label. Meanwhile, both Apple and Google recently released updates to fix zero-day bugs in their devices.

September Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 103 vulnerabilities, 29 fewer than in August. Of these, 25 vulnerabilities were added between the August and September MSPT. So far, no vulnerabilities are known to be exploited in the wild. Two have public PoC exploits: 🔸 DoS – Newtonsoft.Json (CVE-2024-21907)🔸 EoP – Azure Networking (CVE-2025-54914) Notable among […]

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved in maintaining the projects was phished. The attack appears to have been quickly contained and was narrowly focused on stealing cryptocurrency. But experts warn that a similar attack with a slightly more nefarious payload could quickly lead to a disruptive malware outbreak that is far more difficult to detect and restrain.

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed's messages are getting blocked more because its methods of blasting email are increasingly way more spammy than that of ActBlue, the fundraising platform for Democrats.

August Linux Patch Wednesday. I’m late with this LPW since I was improving the generation of LPW bulletin lists and the operation of Vulristics. 🙂 In August, Linux vendors addressed 867 vulnerabilities, nearly twice July’s total, including 455 in the Linux Kernel. One vulnerability is confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV): 🔻 SFB – […]

About Remote Code Execution – WinRAR (CVE-2025-6218, CVE-2025-8088) vulnerabilities. A crafted file path inside an archive may cause the extraction process to move into unintended directories (including the Startup directories 😈), which can result in archive extraction leading to the execution of malicious code in the context of the current user. 🩹 Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 was […]