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Singapore, Singapore, 29th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Medusa ransomware group claims 834 GB data theft from Comcast, demanding $1.2M ransom while sharing screenshots and file listings.

Plus: A ransomeware gang steals data on 8,000 preschoolers, Microsoft blocks Israel’s military from using its cloud for surveillance, call-recording app Neon hits pause over security holes, and more.

Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services—by burying their data deep underground.

Hackers are sending fake invoice emails with malicious Office files that install the XWorm RAT on Windows systems, allowing full remote access and data theft. Learn how the shellcode and process injection are used to steal data, and how to stay safe from this persistent threat.

Versions of the package github.com/nyaruka/phonenumbers before 1.2.2 are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input in the phonenumbers.Parse() function. An attacker can cause a panic by providing crafted input causing a "runtime error: slice bounds out of range".

Hackers stole data on 8,000 nursery children, then called the children's parents, hoping to increase leverage for their ransom demand.

Bitdefender warns that the TradingView Premium ad scam now targets Google ads and YouTube, hijacking verified channels to spread spyware.

### Impact A **Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)** vulnerability was identified in Apollo’s **Embedded Sandbox** and **Embedded Explorer**. The vulnerability arises from missing origin validation in the client-side code that handles `window.postMessage` events. A malicious website can send forged messages to the embedding page, causing the victim’s browser to execute arbitrary GraphQL queries or mutations against their GraphQL server while authenticated with the victim’s cookies. #### Who is impacted Anyone embedding [Apollo Sandbox](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphos/platform/sandbox#embedding-sandbox) or [Apollo Explorer](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphos/platform/explorer/embed) in their website may have been affected by this vulnerability. - Users who embed Apollo Sandbox or Apollo Explorer in their websites via npm packages (`@apollo/sandbox` and `@apollo/explorer`) or direct links to Apollo’s CDN. - Users running Apollo Router with [embedded Sandbox enabled]...

# Security Advisory: express-xss-sanitizer ## Overview A vulnerability was discovered in express-xss-sanitizer that allowed unbounded recursion depth during sanitization of nested objects. ## Affected Versions - All versions prior to 2.0.1 ## Patched Versions - 2.0.1 and later ## Description The sanitize function in lib/sanitize.js performed recursive sanitization without depth limiting, making it vulnerable to stack overflow attacks via specially crafted deeply nested JSON objects. ## Impact An attacker could cause denial-of-service by sending a request with deeply nested structures, potentially crashing the Node.js process. ## Solution Upgrade to version 2.0.1 or later: ```bash npm install express-xss-sanitizer@latest ```