Below I’ve curated cyber security news from the world-wide-web – the lefthand column is from “The Hacker News” website and on the right is news from “Security Week”. Both are top cyber security news sites. In the very least this shows that threats are daily and they are very real.
Hacker News
- Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 30, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ongoing abuse of legitimate software for malicious purposes. "In this incident, the threat actor […]
- WhatsApp Patches Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 30, 2025 at 4:36 am
WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177 (CVSS score: 8.0 [CISA-ADP]/5.4 […]
- Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 5:22 pm
Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below - CVE-2025-53693 - HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections […]
- Webinar: Learn How to Unite Dev, Sec, and Ops...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Picture this: Your team rolls out some new code, thinking everything's fine. But hidden in there is a tiny flaw that explodes into a huge problem once it hits the cloud. Next thing you know, hackers are in, and your company is dealing with a mess that costs millions. Scary, right? In 2025, the […]
- Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Amazon on Friday said it flagged and disrupted what it described as an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT29 actors as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. The campaign used "compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure […]
- Abandoned Sogou Zhuyin Update Server Hijacked,...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 1:12 pm
An abandoned update server associated with input method editor (IME) software Sogou Zhuyin was leveraged by threat actors as part of an espionage campaign to deliver several malware families, including C6DOOR and GTELAM, in attacks primarily targeting users across Eastern Asia. "Attackers employed […]
- Can Your Security Stack See ChatGPT? Why Network...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 10:30 am
Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are increasingly common in organizations. While these solutions improve efficiency across tasks, they also present new data leak prevention for generative AI challenges. Sensitive information may be shared through chat prompts, files […]
- Click Studios Patches Passwordstate...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 9:58 am
Click Studios, the developer of enterprise-focused password management solution Passwordstate, said it has released security updates to address an authentication bypass vulnerability in its software. The high-severity issue, which is yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, has been addressed in […]
- FreePBX Servers Targeted by Zero-Day Flaw,...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team has issued an advisory warning about an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability that impacts systems with an administrator control panel (ACP) exposed to the public internet. FreePBX is an open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform widely used by […]
- Feds Seize $6.4M VerifTools Fake-ID Marketplace,...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 29, 2025 at 9:05 am
Authorities from the Netherlands and the United States have announced the dismantling of an illicit marketplace called VerifTools that peddled fraudulent identity documents to cybercriminals across the world. To that end, two marketplace domains (verif[.]tools and veriftools[.]net) and one blog […]
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