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Paris, France, 6th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

A misconfigured database belonging to a pet insurance company, "Rainwalk Pet Insurance," exposed sensitive PII and veterinary claim data. The data exposure reveals new fraud tactics, including microchip and reimbursement scams.

A Chinese company named the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA) has been assessed to be likely led by the Ministry of State Security (MSS). The assessment comes from evidence that at least four BIETA personnel have clear or possible links to MSS officers and their relationship with the University of International Relations, which is known to share links with the

The cyber world never hits pause, and staying alert matters more than ever. Every week brings new tricks, smarter attacks, and fresh lessons from the field. This recap cuts through the noise to share what really matters—key trends, warning signs, and stories shaping today’s security landscape. Whether you’re defending systems or just keeping up, these highlights help you spot what’s coming

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group codenamed UAT-8099 that has been attributed to search engine optimization (SEO) fraud and theft of high-value credentials, configuration files, and certificate data.  The attacks are designed to target Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers, with most of the infections reported in India, Thailand

WatchTowr finds a serious flaw in Dell UnityVSA (CVE-2025-36604) letting attackers run commands without login. Dell issues patch 5.5.1 - update now.

Step-by-step instructions on how to enable 2FA on your Facebook account—for Android, iOS, and via the website.

A list of topics we covered in the week of September 29 to October 5 of 2025

A flaw has been found in Mangati NovoSGA up to 2.2.12. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file /novosga.users/new of the component User Creation Page. Executing manipulation of the argument Senha/Confirmação da senha can lead to weak password requirements. The attack can be launched remotely. Attacks of this nature are highly complex. The exploitability is regarded as difficult. The exploit has been published and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

A now patched security vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration was exploited as a zero-day earlier this year in cyber attacks targeting the Brazilian military. Tracked as CVE-2025-27915 (CVSS score: 5.4), the vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Classic Web Client that arises as a result of insufficient sanitization of HTML content in ICS calendar files,