December 20, 2025

Cisco Email Security Products Under Active Attack

Cisco Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances are currently being actively exploited by a China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-9686, with known associations to APT41 and UNC5174. Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) identified the activity during a Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support investigation, with evidence indicating the campaign had […]
December 10, 2025

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 million Android TVs, Launches Large Scale DDoS Attacks

Kimwolf botnet has infected over 1.8 million Android devices worldwide, primarily targeting smart TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets like TV BOX, SuperBOX, X96Q, and MX10, turning them into a massive army for DDoS attacks. Discovered by QiAnXin XLab on October 24, 2025, via a suspicious malware sample, the botnet’s command and control (C2) domain 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132.su briefly topped Cloudflare’s global rankings, […]
November 30, 2025

Spyware targeting messaging apps announced by CISA

CISA issued an urgent alert on November 24, 2025, warning of multiple cyber threat actors actively using commercial spyware to target users of popular mobile messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram. These actors employ sophisticated social engineering and targeting techniques, such as malicious QR codes for device pairing, zero-click exploits that infect devices silently without user interaction, and fake […]
November 18, 2025

Coupang breach exposes data of over 33 million users

South Korean e‑commerce giant Coupang has disclosed a massive data breach that exposed personal information from approximately 33.7 million customer accounts, making it one of the largest cyber incidents in the country’s history. ​The exposed data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal or shipping addresses, and order histories, with some reports noting leak of delivery entrance codes, raising concerns […]
November 10, 2025

Critical vulnerability found in 7-Zip archiving tool

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11001 (CVSS 7.0), was disclosed in the popular open-source 7-Zip archiving tool, affecting all versions before 25.00 released in July 2025. The flaw stems from improper handling of symbolic links in ZIP archives, enabling attackers to craft malicious files that allow directory traversal outside the intended extraction folder. When a user […]
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 […]