SonicWall’s VPNs May Have a Nasty Zero-Day – Akira Ransomware Gate-crashes the Party SonicWall is probing a potential zero-day flaw in its Gen 7 SSL VPN firewalls after security firms Arctic Wolf and Huntress logged more than 20 Akira-ransomware break-ins since late July 2025. Victims were fully patched and even with MFA attackers still slipped […]
“ClickFix” malvertising: crooks rent Google Ads so you’ll download their dodgy installers Researchers have spotted a sprawling malvertising operation nick-named “ClickFix” that hijacks Google Ads to lure users searching for popular software (Chrome, WhatsApp, Adobe Reader) onto copy-cat sites. The bogus pages serve malicious MSI installers laced with OxtaRAT remote-access malware. Once executed, the payload […]
Fake OAuth apps: the latest con trick against Microsoft 365 users Threat actors are using fake Microsoft 365 OAuth apps, spoofing brands like RingCentral, SharePoint and Adobe, to trick users into granting access to their accounts. The crooks combine the bogus apps with Tycoon Phishing-as-a-Service kits, redirecting victims through a CAPTCHA and then an adversary-in-the-middle […]
HPE’s Wi‑Fi Kit Gets a Nasty Surprise: Hard‑Coded Passwords Hewlett‑Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched two nasty bugs in its Instant On wireless access‑points. The worst, CVE‑2025‑37103 (CVSS 9.8), comes from hard‑coded admin credentials that let anyone waltz straight past the login screen. A second flaw, CVE‑2025‑37102 (CVSS 7.2), allows command injection once you’re signed in. Chained together, the pair […]
Patch your SharePoint, or it’ll patch you Microsoft has rushed out emergency patches for CVE‑2025‑53770, a critical (CVSS 9.8) remote‑code‑execution flaw in on‑premises SharePoint Server. The bug, triggered by unsafe deserialisation in the machineAccountCheck function, is already being weaponised in the wild—at least 54 organisations have been hit, including banks, universities and government bodies. A related spoofing […]
Hackers Turn GitHub into a Free Malware Hotel Researchers have spotted cyber‑crooks abusing public GitHub repositories as free, trustworthy‑looking hosting for malware. The gang, nicknamed “GrokRAT” by Trend Micro, uploads innocent‑looking projects that actually hide an encrypted Remote‑Access Trojan. Victims receive a phishing email with a link to the repo’s raw file; a PowerShell one‑liner […]
Patch your Apache before it mines crypto on your behalf Security researchers have spotted active exploitation of a new Apache HTTP Server bug, CVE‑2025‑31925 (CVSS 9.4). The flaw lives in the mod_proxy_uwsgi module: a single malicious request can trigger a buffer overflow and lets an attacker run commands with the same privileges as Apache. Threat […]
Patch Your Browser, Save Your Bacon – Google’s Latest Zero‑Day Fix Google has rushed out Chrome version 138.0.7204.157/158 to patch six flaws, headlined by CVE‑2025‑6558 (CVSS 8.8). The bug lives in ANGLE/GPU code and lets a malicious web page break out of Chrome’s sandbox—a handy stepping‑stone to full system compromise. Google’s Threat Analysis Group spotted the exploit […]
“Golden DMSA” – Windows gets its own Wonka ticket for hackers Security researchers have uncovered a new Windows privilege‑escalation trick dubbed “Golden DMSA.” The technique abuses the Digital Media Streaming Authentication (DMSA) protocol baked into every modern version of Windows. By replaying a single network handshake, an attacker can mint a “golden” DMSA token that Windows happily […]
