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Microsoft Azure, one of the world’s leading cloud computing platforms, experienced a significant service outage on Thursday, October 9, 2025, leaving customers across Europe and Africa unable to access their services. The disruption began at approximately 07:40 UTC, with the core issue identified as a major capacity loss within Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft’s cloud-native […]

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The cybersecurity landscape has been shaken by the emergence of Trinity of Chaos, a sophisticated ransomware collective that has launched a data leak site containing sensitive information from 39 major corporations. This formidable alliance, presumably comprising members from the notorious Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters groups, represents a significant evolution in cybercriminal organization and operational […]

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A major service outage is affecting Microsoft 365, preventing users from accessing the admin center and other services that rely on Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. The disruption, which began on Thursday, October 9, 2025, is causing widespread access issues for organizations that depend on Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite. The scope of the impact is […]

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Since emerging in the mid-2010s as a persistent threat actor, the IRGC-linked APT35 collective has continually adapted its tactics to target government entities, energy firms, and diplomatic missions across the Middle East and beyond. Initially focused on credential harvesting via targeted phishing campaigns, the group has evolved a modular toolkit capable of deep network infiltration […]

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A sophisticated technique known as hidden text salting has emerged as a significant threat to email security systems, allowing cybercriminals to bypass detection mechanisms through the strategic abuse of cascading style sheets (CSS) properties. This attack vector enables threat actors to embed irrelevant content, or “salt,” within various components of malicious emails while rendering it […]

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A significant Microsoft 365 outage blocked user access to several critical services, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and the Microsoft 365 admin center. The incident began late on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, leaving organizations worldwide unable to utilize essential communication and administrative platforms. Microsoft acknowledged the issue promptly and began investigating the widespread reports from […]

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The popular communication platform Discord is facing an extortion attempt following a significant data breach at one of its third-party customer service providers, Zendesk. Threat actors claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of sensitive data, including over 2.1 million government-issued identification photos used for age verification. While Discord confirms the breach, it disputes the scale […]

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CrowdStrike has disclosed and released patches for two medium-severity vulnerabilities in its Falcon sensor for Windows that could allow an attacker to delete arbitrary files. The security vulnerabilities, designated as CVE-2025-42701 and CVE-2025-42706, require an attacker to have already gained the ability to execute code on a target system. The company has stated that there […]

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A critical SQL injection vulnerability in FreePBX has emerged as a significant threat to VoIP infrastructure worldwide, enabling attackers to manipulate database contents and achieve arbitrary code execution. FreePBX, a widely deployed PBX system built around the open-source Asterisk VoIP platform, provides organizations with web-based administrative capabilities for managing telecommunications infrastructure. The vulnerability, designated as […]

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A new threat group calling itself Crimson Collective has emerged as a significant cybersecurity concern, targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments with sophisticated data exfiltration and extortion campaigns. The group has recently claimed responsibility for attacking Red Hat, asserting they successfully compromised and stole private repositories from Red Hat’s GitLab infrastructure. This development represents […]

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A sophisticated new breed of ransomware attacks is leveraging legitimate database commands to compromise organizations worldwide, bypassing traditional security measures through “malware-less” operations. Unlike conventional ransomware that encrypts files using malicious binaries, threat actors are exploiting exposed database services by abusing standard database functionality to steal, wipe, and ransom critical data. The attack methodology represents […]

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The notorious cybercriminal collective known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has escalated their extortion campaign by launching a dedicated leak site to threaten organizations with the exposure of stolen Salesforce data. This supergroup, comprised of established threat actors including ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$, represents a sophisticated evolution in ransomware-as-a-service operations that targets one of the […]

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In recent weeks, cybersecurity analysts have observed a resurgence of the Mustang Panda threat actor deploying a novel DLL side-loading approach to deliver malicious payloads. Emerging in June 2025, this campaign leverages politically themed lures targeting Tibetan advocacy groups. Victims receive a ZIP archive containing a decoy executable named Voice for the Voiceless Photos.exe alongside […]

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Security teams are constantly on the move. Alerts never stop coming in, workloads keep piling up, and the pressure to react fast can wear anyone down. Add long investigations and a maze of tools on top of that, and burnout becomes almost inevitable.  Still, it doesn’t have to be this way. With the right approach, […]

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A sophisticated cyberattack campaign, active since August 2025, where a China-nexus threat actor has been weaponizing a legitimate server operations tool called Nezha to execute commands and deploy malware on compromised web servers. This campaign, uncovered by Huntress, represents the first publicly reported instance of Nezha being abused in this manner, highlighting a tactical shift […]

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Generative AI has gone from a novelty to a foundation of organization efficiency in just a few short years. From copilots embedded in office suites to dedicated large language model (LLM) platforms, personnel now rely on these platforms to code, analyze, draft, and decide. But for CISOs and security architects, the very speed of adoption […]

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Tel Aviv, Israel, October 8th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Miggo Security, pioneer and innovator in Application Detection & Response (ADR) and AI Runtime Defense, today announced it has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Security. To us, this recognition underscores Miggo’s mission to close the detection-to-mitigation gap that plagues security teams today by providing […]

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A China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group is actively leveraging OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform to develop malware and craft sophisticated spear-phishing emails for its global campaigns. Security firm Volexity tracks the actor as UTA0388 and has analyzed its operations since June 2025, concluding with high confidence that the group uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate […]

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A sophisticated Android remote access trojan (RAT) has emerged on GitHub, presenting significant security concerns for mobile device users worldwide. The malware, publicly available under the repository “Android-RAT” by user Huckel789, claims to offer fully undetectable (FUD) capabilities that can bypass modern security measures and antivirus detection systems. This malicious software represents a concerning evolution […]

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In recent weeks, security teams have observed a surge in malvertising campaigns distributing what appears to be a fully functional PDF editor. Dubbed TamperedChef, this malware masquerades as a legitimate application—AppSuite PDF Editor—leveraging convincing advertisements to lure European organizations and individuals into downloading the installer. Once executed, the installer exhibits expected functionalities for nearly two […]

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