MathWorks, the developer of the widely used software MATLAB and SIMULINK, has disclosed a major ransomware attack that has impacted thousands of its users. The incident occurred in the spring of 2025, but its...
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Drift has disclosed details of a security incident involving its Salesforce integration. Between August 8 and August 18, 2025, an unknown actor exploited OAuth credentials to extract data from customer Salesforce instances. According to...
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In August of this year, specialists from Israel’s National Digital Agency uncovered a large-scale campaign known as ShadowCaptcha, designed to compromise users through more than a hundred hacked WordPress websites. These sites had been...
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Researchers at Check Point Research have uncovered a new targeted campaign, dubbed ZipLine, which leverages the malicious tool MixShell against industrial and high-tech companies. The hallmark of this operation lies in its unorthodox delivery...
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A cyberattack against the Israeli “kosher internet” provider Internet Rimon, which serves religious and ultra-Orthodox communities, disrupted its services on the evening of August 23. The Iranian group Promised Revenge has claimed responsibility. The...
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Nevada’s network of state institutions was left paralyzed following an incident that occurred in the early hours of August 24. As a result of the attack, the state’s IT infrastructure ceased functioning, forcing most...
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Researchers have unveiled ONEFLIP, a groundbreaking attack technique that introduces a novel method of covertly modifying neural networks, marking a major advance in hardware-level threats against AI. Unlike traditional backdoors that rely on tampering...
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Google has released an emergency update for Chrome to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-9478, in the ANGLE graphics library. The flaw, a use-after-free error discovered on August 11 by the Google Big Sleep team,...
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ESET specialists have reported the first documented case of ransomware in which artificial intelligence plays a central role. The newly discovered strain, named PromptLock, is written in Go and leverages OpenAI’s local gpt-oss:20b model...
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The fast-glob library—used in thousands of public Node.js projects and in more than thirty systems of the U.S. Department of Defense—has turned out to be the work of a single developer. Online profiles indicate...
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Openness has long been the defining distinction between Android and the iPhone, yet in recent years Google has steadily shifted the balance toward security. Now the company is preparing its most radical step yet...
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On August 24, 2025, the world marked the 30th anniversary of Windows 95—Microsoft’s first truly mass-market 32-bit consumer operating system, a release that profoundly reshaped personal computing. In an era of limited home internet,...
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The creator of the spyware TheTruthSpy—the Vietnamese company 1Byte Software, led by Vanh (Vardi) Tiu—has once again found itself at the center of a major scandal. Independent security researcher Swarang Veid has uncovered a...
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The Auchan retail chain has fallen victim to a cyber incident targeting its customer loyalty program. This time, attackers gained access to the personal data of clients registered in the Waaoh loyalty scheme. Information...
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GreyNoise has observed a sharp and highly atypical surge in reconnaissance activity targeting Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access and the RDP Web Client: 1,971 unique IP addresses were active simultaneously, whereas the company typically...
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A new study by specialists at The Trail of Bits has revealed a previously unknown vulnerability in the Google Gemini ecosystem and its associated services, enabling the covert exfiltration of user data through images...
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Microsoft has issued a warning over the growing surge of large-scale ClickFix phishing attacks and has recommended that system administrators restrict the use of command-line tools and disable the Run dialog in Windows. This...
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An attack on Google Classroom has escalated into one of the largest phishing campaigns in recent months. According to Check Point, between August 6 and 12, attackers launched five coordinated waves of distribution, sending...
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CloudSEK researchers have uncovered a new attack vector, dubbed ClickFix, which exploits invisible prompt injection and the prompt overdose technique to compromise automated AI summarization systems. The essence of the method lies in concealing...
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With each passing year, the number of cryptocurrency-related attacks orchestrated by North Korean groups continues to grow. Their methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated—ranging from large-scale breaches to infiltrating companies through planted employees. Coinbase CEO...
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