October 20, 2025

Microsoft pins latest GoAnywhere MFT exploitation campaign on Medusa ransomware group

Microsoft has identified a cybercriminal group tracked as Storm-1175 as responsible for actively exploiting a critical deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2025-10035) in Fortra’s GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software. This vulnerability affects the License Servlet component and allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) by processing attacker-controlled serialized data. The attackers leveraged this zero-day flaw to gain initial access to targeted networks by […]
October 16, 2025

US Air Force warns of SharePoint data breach

The U.S. Air Force publicly acknowledged a significant data breach involving Microsoft SharePoint, which potentially exposed sensitive personal and health information of service members. According to an official notification circulated by the Air Force Personnel Center, the breach stemmed from misconfigured SharePoint permissions, resulting in the unauthorized access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI). To mitigate […]
October 10, 2025

Western Sydney University warns of scam emails revoking degrees

Western Sydney University warned students and alumni about a sophisticated scam involving fraudulent emails falsely claiming that recipients’ academic degrees had been revoked and that they were permanently excluded from the university. These emails, which appeared very official and included students’ full names and ID numbers, caused significant alarm among recipients. WSU confirmed the emails were fake, not issued by […]
October 5, 2025

Allianz Life reveals almost 1.5m impacted by July data breach

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America suffered a significant data breach impacting nearly 1.5 million individuals, including customers, financial professionals, and select employees. The breach occurred on July 16, 2025, when a malicious threat actor gained unauthorized access to a third-party, cloud based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system used by Allianz Life via a social engineering attack, specifically a […]
October 1, 2025

Homebuyers shrug off cybersecurity risks, even as scammers target property deposits

Many home buyers remain surprisingly unconcerned about cybersecurity risks despite a rise in scammers targeting property deposits. A recent report from InfoTrack shows that around half of Australians have little to no worry about sharing personal information during property transactions, even though the average deposit is now approximately $160,000. This complacency is alarming given the increasing number of cybercriminals exploiting […]