“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to Target AWS IMDS and Steal EC2 IAM Credentials [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-51591 (CVSS score: 6.5), which refers to a case of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)…
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State-Sponsored Hackers Exploiting Libraesva Email Security Gateway Vulnerability [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Libraesva has released a security update to address a vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) solution that it said has been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, carries a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating medium severity. “Libraesva ESG is affected by a command injection flaw that can be triggered by…
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npm Supply Chain Attack
What is the Attack? On September 8, 2025, attackers phished the npm maintainer “qix” and stole their two-factor authentication (2FA) credentials. With that access, they published malicious versions of some very popular npm packages (including debug, chalk, and ansi-styles). The impact is considered high risk for applications that serve frontend JavaScript, especially those handling payments,…
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Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image. The medium-severity vulnerabilities, both of which stem from improper verification of a cryptographic signature, areRead More
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Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an “elaborate” online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million ($118 million) from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the coordinated action saw searches in five places across Spain and Portugal, as well as in…
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U.S. Secret Service Seizes 300 SIM Servers, 100K Cards Threatening U.S. Officials Near UN [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it took down a network of electronic devices located across the New York tri-state area that were used to threaten U.S. government officials and posed an imminent threat to national security. “This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000…
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SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw [email protected] (The Hacker News)
SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its Web Help Desk software that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-26399 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as an instance of deserialization of untrusted data that could result in code…
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Lean Teams, Higher Stakes: Why CISOs Must Rethink Incident Remediation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Big companies are getting smaller, and their CEOs want everyone to know it. Wells Fargo has cut its workforce by 23% over five years, Bank of America has shed 88,000 employees since 2010, and Verizon’s CEO recently boasted that headcount is “going down all the time.” What was once a sign of corporate distress has…
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ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest. The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers to deploy a Go-based malware that turns infected systems into attack nodesRead More
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GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security [email protected] (The Hacker News)
GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near future” in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack. This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and self-replicating malware by allowing local publishing with required…
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