New Linux Bugs Give Attackers Instant Root – Patch Now Security firm Qualys has revealed two local-privilege-escalation bugs that, when chained, let any logged-in user on most Linux distributions become root in seconds. • CVE-2025-6018 sits in the PAM configuration shipped with openSUSE Leap 15 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, allowing a normal user to […]

Russian Hackers Use Gmail App Passwords to Beat 2FA Russian state-linked group APT29 (UNC6293) is using Google “application-specific passwords” (ASPs) to sidestep two-factor authentication on Gmail accounts. Posing as U.S. State Department officials, the attackers court academics and Kremlin critics over several weeks, then send a PDF instructing victims to generate a 16-digit ASP and […]

Chrome zero-day (CVE-2025-2783) exploited to plant ‘Trinper’ back-door A critical bug in Google Chrome, now fixed, was weaponised earlier this year by a little-known threat group called TaxOff. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, allowed attackers to break out of Chrome’s sandbox and install a bespoke back-door dubbed Trinper. A slick phishing hook Victims first received […]

Threat actors increasingly exploit “orphaned” Active Directory (AD) service accounts logins originally created for legacy apps, test scripts or scheduled tasks that remain active with non-expiring passwords. Because these machine accounts sit outside normal user-lifecycle reviews, they often escape audits and accumulate dangerous permissions. An early-2024 botnet campaign against Microsoft 365 showed how attackers can […]

Cyber-security experts warn that tens of thousands of British firms may already have hackers lurking undetected inside their systems. The shift to “ransomware-as-a-service” means criminal groups such as DragonForce rent out powerful attack tools, letting less-skilled crooks keep 80 % of any ransom while the developers take a cut. Evidence of DragonForce has been found […]

HPE rushes out patch for critical StoreOnce backup flaw Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued patches for eight vulnerabilities in its StoreOnce backup and deduplication appliances. The worst, CVE-2025-37093 (CVSS 9.8), lets remote attackers bypass authentication on any version prior to StoreOnce 4.3.11. Zero Day Initiative says the flaw sits in the machineAccountCheck method. Once inside, […]

Google unmasks ‘UNC6040’ vishing gang targeting Salesforce users Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has unmasked UNC6040, a financially-driven gang that runs English-language voice-phishing (vishing) campaigns. Posing as IT support staff, callers persuade employees to install or approve a doctored version of Salesforce’s Data Loader. Once authorised, the tool siphons corporate Salesforce data, after which the […]

Cisco rushes to fix critical ISE bug that shares passwords across cloud deployments Cisco has patched a critical static-credential flaw (CVE-2025-20286, CVSS 9.9) in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) cloud images for AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud. Because ISE generates the same default credentials for every deployment running the same software release on a given […]

Chrome Extensions Are Leaking Your Data – and the Keys to the Kingdom Symantec researchers found that dozens of popular Chrome extensions—some with hundreds of thousands of installs—send telemetry over unencrypted HTTP and even hard-code API keys (Google Analytics, Azure, AWS, Tenor, crypto services) directly in their JavaScript. Examples include SEMRush Rank, Browsec VPN, MSN […]