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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 […]

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft, including Slack, Google Workspace, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and OpenAI.

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We've since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called "Gambler Panel" that bills itself as a "soulless project that is made for profit."

🔍 Vulners Lookup – augmented CVE reality. Yesterday, VulnCheck unveiled a prototype Chrome/Chromium plugin that highlights CVE identifiers on any website and shows a popup with vulnerability details, including whether the vulnerability is in the VulnCheck KEV (an extended CISA KEV). ⚡️ The Vulners team saw this news, loved the idea, and built their own […]

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they'd made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor's high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest "residential proxy" networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe.

A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five victims via SIM-swapping attacks that diverted their mobile phone calls and text messages to devices controlled by Urban and his co-conspirators.