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SysAid Patches 4 Critical Flaws Enabling Pre-Auth RCE in On-Premise Version

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaw in the on-premise version of SysAid IT support software that could be exploited to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-2775, CVE-2025-2776, and CVE-2025-2777, have all been described as XML External Entity (XXE) injections, which occur when an attacker is 

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Chinese AI Submersible

A Chinese company has developed an AI-piloted submersible that can reach speeds “similar to a destroyer or a US Navy torpedo,” dive “up to 60 metres underwater,” and “remain static for more than a month, like the stealth capabilities of a nuclear submarine.” In case you’re worried about the military applications of this, you can […]

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Reevaluating SSEs: A Technical Gap Analysis of Last-Mile Protection

Security Service Edge (SSE) platforms have become the go-to architecture for securing hybrid work and SaaS access. They promise centralized enforcement, simplified connectivity, and consistent policy control across users and devices. But there’s a problem: they stop short of where the most sensitive user activity actually happens—the browser. This isn’t a small omission. It’s a […]

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Play Ransomware Exploited Windows CVE-2025-29824 as Zero-Day to Breach U.S. Organization

Threat actors with links to the Play ransomware family exploited a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows as a zero-day as part of an attack targeting an unnamed organization in the United States. The attack, per the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, leveraged CVE-2025-29824, a privilege escalation flaw in the Common Log […]

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NCSC warns of IT helpdesk impersonation trick being used by ransomware gangs after UK retailers attacked

Sales: 0845 470 4001 | Support: 0845 230 6001 | Contact Form | NPS Company Cyber Security 926 Hits The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned the IT helpdesks of retailers to be on their guard against bogus support calls they might receive from hackers pretending to be staff locked out of their […]

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TeleMessage, the Signal clone used by US government officials, suffers hack

Graham CLULEY May 07, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial TeleMessage, an encrypted messaging app based upon Signal, has been temporarily suspended out of “an abundance of caution” after a hacker reportedly gained access to US government communications. TeleMessage entered the spotlight earlier this month after US National […]

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Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a seemingly harmless Discord-related utility but incorporates a remote access trojan. The package in question is discordpydebug, which was uploaded to PyPI on March 21, 2022. It has been downloaded 11,574 times and continues to be available on […]

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NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware

A federal jury on Tuesday decided that NSO Group must pay Meta-owned WhatsApp WhatsApp approximately $168 million in monetary damages, more than four months after a federal judge ruled that the Israeli company violated U.S. laws by exploiting WhatsApp servers to deploy Pegasus spyware, targeting over 1,400 individuals globally. WhatsApp originally filed the lawsuit against […]

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Hackers Exploit Samsung MagicINFO, GeoVision IoT Flaws to Deploy Mirai Botnet

Threat actors have been observed actively exploiting security flaws in GeoVision end-of-life (EoL) Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corral them into a Mirai botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The activity, first observed by the Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) in early April 2025, involves the exploitation of two operating system […]

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