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Critical Squid Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution by Attackers
A severe security vulnerability in the widely-used Squid HTTP proxy has been disclosed, potentially exposing millions of systems to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, designated as CVE-2025-54574 and SQUID-2025:1, represents a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the software’s URN…
China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure
Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its…
Critical HashiCorp Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Run Code on Host Machine
HashiCorp has disclosed a critical security vulnerability affecting its Vault products that could allow privileged operators to execute arbitrary code on the underlying host machine. The flaw, designated CVE-2025-6000 and tracked as HCSEC-2025-14, impacts both Community and Enterprise editions of…
APT37 Hackers Weaponizes JPEG Files to Attack Windows Systems Leveraging “mspaint.exe” File
A sophisticated new wave of cyberattacks attributed to North Korea’s notorious APT37 (Reaper) group is leveraging advanced malware hidden within JPEG image files to compromise Microsoft Windows systems, signaling a dangerous evolution in evasion tactics and fileless attack techniques. Security…
NestJS Vulnerability Allows Code Execution on Developer Machines
A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the popular NestJS framework that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on developer machines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54782, affects the @nestjs/devtools-integration package and has been assigned the highest…
AI-Powered Cursor IDE Exposes Users to Silent Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers at Aim Labs have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular AI-powered Cursor IDE that enables attackers to achieve silent remote code execution on developer machines. The vulnerability, dubbed “CurXecute,” has been assigned a high severity rating and…
NHIs Continue to Outpace Human Identities and Bump Up Security Risk
Unmanaged machine identities have continued to tick up at a rapid clip, furthering a trend that finds non-human identities (NHIs) outpacing human accounts — and, to the chagrin of security experts, exposing credentials, new research on the first half of…
Average global data breach cost now $4.44 million
IBM released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is…
AIBOMs are the new SBOMs: The missing link in AI risk management
In this Help Net Security interview, Marc Frankel, CEO at Manifest Cyber, discusses how overlooked AI-specific risks, like poisoned training data and shadow AI, can lead to security issues that conventional tools fail to detect. He explains how AI Bills…
Open-source password recovery utility Hashcat 7.0.0 released
Hashcat is an open-source password recovery tool that supports five attack modes and more than 300 highly optimized hashing algorithms. It runs on CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators across Linux, Windows, and macOS, and includes features for distributed password…
What’s keeping risk leaders up at night? AI, tariffs, and cost cuts
Enterprise risk leaders are most concerned about rising tariffs and trade tensions heading into the second half of 2025, according to a new report from Gartner. The firm’s second-quarter Emerging Risk Report, based on a survey of 223 senior risk,…
The surprising truth about identity security confidence
Organizations most confident in their identity security are often the least prepared, according to a new report from BeyondID. The study reveals a troubling gap between what organizations believe about their identity security programs and how they actually behave. Surprisingly,…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-08-04 03h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 0:32 : Lazarus Group rises again, this time with malware-laden fake FOSS
ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 4th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9554, (Mon, Aug 4th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 4th, 2025…
Lazarus Group rises again, this time with malware-laden fake FOSS
PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more! Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.… This article has been indexed from…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-08-04 00h : 6 posts
6 posts were published in the last hour 22:58 : IT Security News Weekly Summary 31 22:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-08-03 22:3 : BSidesSF 2025: Service Mesh Security: Shifting Focus To The Application Layer 22:3 : Stay…
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IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-08-03
29 posts were published in the last hour 20:32 : Legacy May Kill, (Sun, Aug 3rd) 20:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-08-03 21h : 1 posts 18:32 : A Massive 800% Rise in Data Breach Incidents in First…
BSidesSF 2025: Service Mesh Security: Shifting Focus To The Application Layer
Creator/Author/Presenter: Daniel Popescu Our deep appreciation to Security BSides – San Francisco and the Creators/Authors/Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon – certainly a…