New Charon ransomware targets Middle East public sector and aviation, using APT-style tactics, EDR evasion, and victim-specific ransom notes. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East’s…
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Hackers leak 2.8M sensitive records from Allianz Life in Salesforce data breach
Hackers leaked 2.8M sensitive records from Allianz Life, exposing data on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Hackers leaked 2.8 million sensitive records of US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing data on business partners and customers…
SAP fixed 26 flaws in August 2025 Update, including 4 Critical
SAP’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday released 15 new security notes, including critical fixes, plus four updates to previously released patches. SAP’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers 15 new security notes, including critical fixes, plus four updates to older patches. Of…
August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes a Windows Kerberos Zero-Day
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2025 fixed 107 flaws, including a publicly disclosed Windows Kerberos zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2025 fixed 107 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components, Office and Office Components, Microsoft Edge…
Dutch NCSC: Citrix NetScaler zero-day breaches critical orgs
Dutch NCSC warns CVE-2025-6543 Citrix bug, a memory overflow flaw, is being exploited to breach critical organizations in the Netherlands. The Dutch NCSC warns that the critical Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 has been exploited to breach critical organizations in the…
Researchers cracked the encryption used by DarkBit ransomware
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Profero cracked DarkBit ransomware encryption, allowing victims to recover files for free. Good news for the victims of the DarkBit ransomware, researchers at cybersecurity firm Profero cracked the encryption process, allowing victims to recover files for…
Chrome sandbox escape nets security researcher $250,000 reward
Researcher earns Google Chrome ’s top $250K bounty for a sandbox escape vulnerability enabling remote code execution. A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Micky’ earned $250,000 from Google for reporting a high-severity Chrome vulnerability. The flaw, tracked as…
Smart Buses flaws expose vehicles to tracking, control, and spying
Researchers showed how hackers can exploit flaws in a bus’ onboard and remote systems for tracking, control and spying. Researchers Chiao-Lin ‘Steven Meow’ Yu of Trend Micro Taiwan and Kai-Ching ‘Keniver’ Wang of CHT Security, found that vulnerabilities in smart…
MedusaLocker ransomware group is looking for pentesters
MedusaLocker ransomware gang announced on its Tor data leak site that it is looking for new pentesters. MedusaLocker is a ransomware strain that was first observed in late 2019, it encrypts files on infected systems and demands a ransom, usually…
Google confirms Salesforce CRM breach, faces extortion threat
Google disclosed a Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) breach exposing data of some prospective Google Ads customers. Google confirmed a breach in a Salesforce CRM instance affecting the data of prospective Google Ads customers. The website Databreaches.net reported that the…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 57
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Arctic Wolf Observes July 2025 Uptick in Akira Ransomware Activity Targeting SonicWall SSL VPN The State of Ransomware –…
BadCam: Linux-based Lenovo webcam bugs enable BadUSB attacks
Lenovo webcam flaws, dubbed BadCam, let attackers turn them into BadUSB devices to inject keystrokes and launch OS-independent attacks. Eclypsium researchers found vulnerabilities in some Lenovo webcams, collectively dubbed BadCam, that could let attackers turn them into BadUSB devices to…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 536 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Embargo…
Embargo Ransomware nets $34.2M in crypto since April 2024
Embargo ransomware, likely a BlackCat/Alphv successor, has netted $34.2M in crypto since mid-2024, researchers say. The Embargo ransomware group has processed $34.2M in crypto since emerging in April 2024, researchers from Blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs report. “TRM Labs has…
Germany limits police spyware use to serious crimes
Germany’s top court ruled police can use spyware only for crimes punishable by at least three years in prison. Germany’s top court ruled that police may only use spyware to monitor devices in cases involving crimes with a maximum sentence…
Phishing attacks exploit WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 to install RomCom
WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, fixed in v7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install RomCom malware. The WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, a directory traversal bug fixed in version 7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to deliver…
French firm Bouygues Telecom suffered a data breach impacting 6.4M customers
Bouygues Telecom suffered a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of 6.4 million customers. French telecommunications company Bouygues Telecom suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the compromise of personal information of 6.4 million customers. Bouygues Telecom, part of the Bouygues…
Columbia University data breach impacted 868,969 people
Columbia University was hit by a cyberattack, exposing personal data of over 860,000 students, applicants, and employees. Columbia University suffered a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of students, applicants, and employees. According to the data breach notification sent to…
SonicWall dismisses zero-day fears after Ransomware probe
SonicWall found no evidence of a new vulnerability after probing reports of a zero-day used in ransomware attacks. SonicWall investigated claims of a zero-day being used in ransomware attacks but found no evidence of any new vulnerability in its products.…
Air France and KLM disclosed data breaches following the hack of a third-party platform
Air France and KLM warn of a data breach exposing customer data via unauthorized access to a third-party platform. Air France and KLM reported a data breach after hackers accessed a third-party platform, potentially exposing some customers’ personal information. Both…