Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2025

Smashing Security podcast #412: Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing

QR codes are being weaponised by scammers — so maybe think twice before scanning that parking meter. And in a blunder so dumb it makes autocorrect look smart, the White House explains how it leaked war plans on Signal because an iPhone mistook a journalist for a government insider. Plus! Don’t miss our featured interview […]

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Lovable AI Found Most Vulnerable to VibeScamming — Enabling Anyone to Build Live Scam Pages

Lovable, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that allows for creating full-stack web applications using text-based prompts, has been found to be the most susceptible to jailbreak attacks, allowing novice and aspiring cybercrooks to set up lookalike credential harvesting pages. “As a purpose-built tool for creating and deploying web apps, its capabilities line up […]

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New TCESB Malware Found in Active Attacks Exploiting ESET Security Scanner

A Chinese-affiliated threat actor known for its cyber-attacks in Asia has been observed exploiting a security flaw in security software from ESET to deliver a previously undocumented malware codenamed TCESB. “Previously unseen in ToddyCat attacks, [TCESB] is designed to stealthily execute payloads in circumvention of protection and monitoring tools installed on the device,” Kaspersky said […]

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How to Leak to a Journalist

Neiman Lab has some good advice on how to leak a story to a journalist.  

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Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities Creating Massive Security Blind Spots

GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl report for 2025 reveals the alarming scale of secrets exposure in modern software environments. Driving this is the rapid growth of non-human identities (NHIs), which have been outnumbering human users for years. We need to get ahead of it and prepare security measures and governance for these machine identities as […]

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PipeMagic Trojan Exploits Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability to Deploy Ransomware

Microsoft has revealed that a now-patched security flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) was exploited as a zero-day in ransomware attacks aimed at a small number of targets. “The targets include organizations in the information technology (IT) and real estate sectors of the United States, the financial sector in Venezuela, a Spanish […]

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CISA Warns of CentreStack’s Hard-Coded MachineKey Vulnerability Enabling RCE Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30406 (CVSS score: 9.0), concerns a case of a hard-coded cryptographic key that could be abused to achieve […]

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Microsoft Patches 125 Flaws Including Actively Exploited Windows CLFS Vulnerability

Microsoft has released security fixes to address a massive set of 125 flaws affecting its software products, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 125 vulnerabilities, 11 are rated Critical, 112 are rated Important, and two are rated Low in severity. Forty-nine of these vulnerabilities are classified […]

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Adobe Patches 11 Critical ColdFusion Flaws Amid 30 Total Vulnerabilities Discovered

Adobe has released security updates to fix a fresh set of security flaws, including multiple critical-severity bugs in ColdFusion versions 2025, 2023 and 2021 that could result in arbitrary file read and code execution. Of the 30 flaws in the product, 11 are rated Critical in severity – CVE-2025-24446 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An improper input […]

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