Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. […]
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A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized four domains and their associated server facilitated the crypting service on […]
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Cybercrime Just Got Easier — And That Should Scare You It’s never been easier to launch a cyberattack. Forget hoodie-wearing hackers typing furiously in dark basements — today’s cybercriminals don’t even need to know how to code. They can just rent the tools online. There’s a booming market for plug-and-play phishing kits, and business is […]
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A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. “This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which ultimately deploys the infostealer, harvesting sensitive data such as credentials, browser information, […]
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Graham CLULEY May 30, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The UK’s Ministry of Defence has revealed that it was the target of a sophisticated, cyber attack that saw Russia-linked hackers pose as journalists. The foiled attack was one of over 90,000 cyber attacks linked to hostile states […]
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The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. “The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of […]
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There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and […]
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Breaking Out of the Security Mosh Pit When Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, describes legacy healthcare IT environments, he doesn’t mince words: “Healthcare loves to walk backwards into the future. And this is how we got here, because there are a lot of things that we could have prepared for that we didn’t, […]
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What is the Interlock ransomware? Interlock is a relatively new strain of ransomware, that first emerged in late 2024. Unlike many other ransomware families it not only targets Windows PCs, but also systems running FreeBSD. If you are impacted, you will find that your files have not only been encrypted but have also had “.interlock” […]
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