Spain gives Huawei wiretap contracts, sparking concerns over potential Chinese government access due to Huawei’s links to Beijing. The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has awarded €12.3 million ($14.3 million) contracts to manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps used by…
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Patch immediately: CVE-2025-25257 PoC enables remote code execution on Fortinet FortiWeb
PoC exploits released for critical Fortinet FortiWeb flaw allowing pre-auth RCE. Fortinet urges users to patch. Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for CVE-2025-25257 in Fortinet FortiWeb (CVSS 9.8) enable pre-auth RCE on vulnerable servers. The flaw is a SQL injection vulnerability in…
Wing FTP Server flaw actively exploited shortly after technical details were made public
Hackers exploit critical Wing FTP flaw (CVE-2025-47812) for remote code execution with root/system rights after details leaked on June 30. Threat actors are exploiting a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-47812 (CVSS score of 10), in Wing FTP Server that allows…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 53
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Datacarry Ransomware DRAT V2: Updated DRAT Emerges in TAG-140’s Arsenal Batavia spyware steals data from Russian organizations Taking SHELLTER: a commercial…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 532 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. McDonald’s…
McDonald’s job app exposes data of 64 Million applicants
Vulnerabilities in McDonald’s McHire chatbot exposed data from 64 million job applicants due to insecure internal APIs. Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the McDonald’s chatbot recruitment platform McHire that exposed the personal information of…
Athlete or Hacker? Russian basketball player accused in U.S. ransomware case
Russian basketball player arrested in France over alleged ties to a ransomware group accused of targeting U.S. firms and federal institutions. Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin (26) was arrested in France in June at the request of the U.S. over…
U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway, tracked as CVE-2025-5777, to its…
UK NCA arrested four people over M&S, Co-op cyberattacks
NCA arrested four people in UK, including three teens, over cyberattacks on M&S, Co-op, and Harrods, per its investigation. The British National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals in the country following an investigation into the recent wave of attacks…
PerfektBlue Bluetooth attack allows hacking infotainment systems of Mercedes, Volkswagen, and Skoda
Researchers found critical PerfektBlue flaws in OpenSynergy BlueSDK, allowing remote code execution to hack millions of vehicles’ systems. Researchers at PCA Cyber Security identified a set of critical vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as PerfektBlue, in OpenSynergy BlueSDK Bluetooth stack. The exploitation…
Qantas data breach impacted 5.7 million individuals
Australia’s largest airline Qantas has confirmed that the recent data breach impacted 5.7 million individuals. Early this month, Australian airline Qantas disclosed a cyberattack after hackers accessed a third-party platform used by a call centre, stealing significant customer data. The…
DoNot APT is expanding scope targeting European foreign ministries
DoNot APT, likely an India-linked cyberespionage group, targets European foreign ministries with LoptikMod malware. The DoNot APT group, likely linked to India, has expanded its operations and is targeting European foreign ministries with a new malware, called LoptikMod. The Donot…
Nippon Steel Solutions suffered a data breach following a zero-day attack
Nippon Steel Solutions reported a data breach caused by hackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in their network equipment. Nippon Steel Solutions, a subsidiary of Japan’s Nippon Steel, disclosed a data breach, attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability. The company provides cloud…
Iranian group Pay2Key.I2P ramps Up ransomware attacks against Israel and US with incentives for affiliates
An Iranian ransomware group, Pay2Key.I2P, has intensified attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets, offering affiliates higher profits. The Iranian ransomware group Pay2Key.I2P is stepping up attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets, luring affiliates with higher profit shares. The ransomware gang…
IT Worker arrested for selling access in $100M PIX cyber heist
Brazil arrests IT worker João Roque for aiding $100M PIX cyber heist, one of Brazil’s biggest banking system breaches. Brazilian police arrested João Roque (48), an IT employee at C&M, for allegedly aiding a cyberattack that stole over 540 million…
U.S. CISA adds MRLG, PHPMailer, Rails Ruby on Rails, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Multi-Router Looking Glass (MRLG), PHPMailer, Rails Ruby on Rails, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Multi-Router Looking…
Italian police arrested a Chinese national suspected of cyberespionage on a U.S. warrant
Italian police arrested a Chinese national linked to Silk Typhoon APT group at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on a U.S. warrant. Italian police arrested a Chinese national, Zewei Xu (33), at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on a U.S. warrant. Xu was arrested…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2025 fixed a zero-day
Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2025, which addressed 130 flaws, including one a Microsoft SQL Server zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2025 addressed 130 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components, Office and Office Components,…
Hackers weaponize Shellter red teaming tool to spread infostealers
Hackers are abusing the legitimate red teaming tool Shellter to spread stealer malware after a licensed copy was leaked. Elastic Security Labs has identified several malware campaigns using the commercial AV/EDR evasion tool SHELLTER. The tool was originally built for…
CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025
Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit exists in the wild. Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit is available in the…