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Boo! A Home Depot Halloween “giveaway” isn’t a treat—it’s a phishing trick. Fake links, tracking pixels, and compromised sites are the real prizes here.

A list of topics we covered in the week of October 13 to October 19 of 2025

It might surprise some that a security company would choose WordPress as the backbone of its digital content operations. Here's what we considered when choosing it.

A financially motivated threat actor codenamed UNC5142 has been observed abusing blockchain smart contracts as a way to facilitate the distribution of information stealers such as Atomic (AMOS), Lumma, Rhadamanthys (aka RADTHIEF), and Vidar, targeting both Windows and Apple macOS systems. "UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and 'EtherHiding,' a technique used

An Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-5947) in Service Finder Bookings plugin allows any unauthenticated attacker to log in as an administrator. Over 13,800 exploit attempts detected. Update to v6.1 immediately.

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw impacting the Service Finder WordPress theme that makes it possible to gain unauthorized access to any account, including administrators, and take control of susceptible sites. The authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5947 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects the Service Finder Bookings, a WordPress plugin bundled with the

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a nefarious campaign targeting WordPress sites to make malicious JavaScript injections that are designed to redirect users to sketchy sites. "Site visitors get injected content that was drive-by malware like fake Cloudflare verification," Sucuri researcher Puja Srivastava said in an analysis published last week. The website security company

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

A threat actor named Detour Dog has been outed as powering campaigns distributing an information stealer known as Strela Stealer. That's according to findings from Infoblox, which found the threat actor to maintain control of domains hosting the first stage of the stealer, a backdoor called StarFish. The DNS threat intelligence firm said it has been tracking Detour Dog since August 2023, when

### Overview In applications built with the Auth0-PHP SDK, the Bulk User Import endpoint does not validate the file path wrapper or value. Without proper validation, affected applications may accept arbitrary file paths or URLs. ### Am I affected? You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following preconditions: 1. Applications using the Auth0 Wordpress plugin with version between 5.0.0-BETA0 and 5.3.0, 2. Auth0 Wordpress plugin uses the Auth0-PHP SDK with versions between 3.3.0 and 8.16.0. ### Fix Upgrade Auth0 Wordpress plugin to version 5.4.0 or greater. ### Acknowledgement Okta would like to thank Mohamed Amine Saidani (pwni) for discovering this vulnerability.