A list of topics we covered in the week of August 4 to August 10 of 2025 This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: A week in security (August 4 – August 10)
DARPA code prize, ScarCruft adds ransomware, Columbia breach tally
DARPA awards $4 million prize for AI code review at DEF CON North Korea ScarCruft group adds ransomware to its activities Columbia University hack affects over 860,000 Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your…
Efimer Trojan Targets Crypto Wallets Using Phony Legal Notices and Booby-Trapped Torrents
The Efimer Trojan has emerged as a potent ClipBanker-type malware, primarily designed to steal cryptocurrency by intercepting and swapping wallet addresses in victims’ clipboards. First detected in October 2024, Efimer named after a comment in its decrypted script has evolved…
WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately
The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version…
Xerox FreeFlow Flaws Enable SSRF and Remote Code Execution
Xerox Corporation has released critical security updates for its FreeFlow Core software, addressing two significant vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks and achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The security flaws, identified as…
7-Zip Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Execute Code
A newly disclosed security vulnerability in the popular 7-Zip file compression software has raised significant concerns in the cybersecurity community. CVE-2025-55188, discovered and reported by security researcher Landon on August 9, 2025, allows attackers to perform arbitrary file writes during…
GPT-5 Jailbreaked With Echo Chamber and Storytelling Attacks
Researchers have compromised OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model using sophisticated echo chamber and storytelling attack vectors, revealing critical vulnerabilities in the company’s most advanced AI system. The breakthrough demonstrates how adversarial prompt engineering can bypass even the most robust safety mechanisms,…
Ghanaian fraudsters arrested for BEC/Sakawa
In Nigeria, scammers who specialize in Romance Scams and BEC are called “Yahoo Boys.” In Ghana, the term for the same activity is “Sakawa.” Several Ghanaian headlines are talking about this case with headlines such as “Multimillion dollar Sakawa” or…
How Brandolini’s law informs our everyday infosec reality
Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and…
7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Hackers Write Files and Run Malicious Code
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute malicious code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55188, affects all versions of 7-Zip prior…
GPT-5 Compromised Using Echo Chamber and Storytelling Exploits
Cybersecurity researchers have successfully demonstrated a new jailbreaking technique that compromises OpenAI’s GPT-5 model by combining “Echo Chamber” algorithms with narrative-driven manipulation, raising fresh concerns about the vulnerability of advanced AI systems to sophisticated exploitation methods. Novel Attack Vector Emerges…
Review: From Day Zero to Zero Day
From Day Zero to Zero Day is a practical guide for cybersecurity pros who want to move beyond reading about vulnerabilities and start finding them. It gives a methodical look at how real vulnerability research is done. About the author…
From legacy to SaaS: Why complexity is the enemy of enterprise security
In this Help Net Security interview, Robert Buljevic, Technology Consultant at Bridge IT, discusses how the coexistence of legacy systems and SaaS applications is changing the way organizations approach security. He explains why finding the right balance between old and…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-08-11 06h : 1 posts
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Pentesting is now central to CISO strategy
Security leaders are rethinking their approach to cybersecurity as digital supply chains expand and generative AI becomes embedded in critical systems. A recent survey of 225 security leaders conducted by Emerald Research found that 68% are concerned about the risks…
Breaches are up, budgets are too, so why isn’t healthcare safer?
A new report from Resilience outlines a growing cyber crisis in the U.S. healthcare sector, where ransomware attacks, vendor compromise, and human error continue to cause widespread disruption. In 2023, breaches exposed 168 million records, and the first half of…
I tested GPT-5’s coding skills, and it was so bad that I’m sticking with GPT-4o (for now)
In my latest coding benchmark, GPT-5 stumbled badly, delivering broken plugins, flawed scripts, and confidence-laden wrong answers that could derail projects without careful human oversight. Here’s what to know before you use it. This article has been indexed from Latest…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 11th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9564, (Mon, Aug 11th)
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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere
Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker’s centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer’s account and unlock…
Securing Machine Identities: Best Practices
Why is Machine Identity Security Essential? Do you find that businesses underestimate the significance of machine identity security? When innovation accelerates and we move our activities more to the cloud, securing machine identities, or non-human identities (NHIs), has become a…
Ensuring Compliance Through Enhanced NHI Security
What comes to mind when we think of compliance in cybersecurity? For many, it’s a focus on human identities: creating secure passwords, providing access control, and educating employees on security best practices. However, there’s a growing recognition that to truly…
New ‘Win-DoS’ Zero-Click Vulnerabilities Turns Windows Server/Endpoint, Domain Controllers Into DDoS Botnet
LAS VEGAS — At the DEF CON 33 security conference, researchers Yair and Shahak Morag of SafeBreach Labs unveiled a new class of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, dubbed the “Win-DoS Epidemic.” The duo presented their findings, which include four new Windows…
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-08-11 00h : 2 posts
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