Tag: Cyber Security News

Google Warned Chromecast Owners Not to Hit Factory Reset

Google has issued an urgent advisory to owners of Chromecast 2nd Generation (2015) and Chromecast Audio devices, warning against factory resets as a global outage linked to an expired security certificate renders these devices inoperable.  The company confirmed that it…

Apache Pinot Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass Authentication

A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2024-56325) in Apache Pinot, the open-source distributed OLAP datastore used by LinkedIn, Uber, and Microsoft for real-time analytics, allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication controls and gain full system access.  Rated 9.8 on the CVSS v3…

New Botnet Dubbed “Eleven11bot” Hacked 30,000 Webcams

A newly identified botnet, tracked as Eleven11bot, has compromised approximately 30,000 internet-connected devices—primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs)—to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against critical infrastructure.  Discovered by Nokia Deepfield’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) on February 26, 2025,…

Threat Actors Bypass Security Layers To Fuel SIM Swap Attacks

SIM swap attacks have emerged as a growing cybersecurity threat, with security researchers documenting a 38% increase in successful attacks during the first quarter of 2025. These sophisticated attacks involve criminals convincing mobile carriers to transfer a victim’s phone number…

Google Details Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging Framework Security Bugs

Mandiant researchers, part of Google’s cybersecurity division, have uncovered several critical security bugs in Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework. The findings reveal significant instruction emulation inaccuracies that could potentially compromise security analyses and incident response investigations, leading analysts to…