2025
Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day – patch now or risk full system compromise
Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…
Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds
They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…
‘Largest-ever’ cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second
Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says
Ready, aim, mire Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …
Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn’t a sustainable side hustle
Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US…
Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist…
Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations
Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…
Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack
Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…
UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to…
Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation
More than a month after PoC made public Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digital intruders got a month's head start.…