May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Supply Chain / Malware 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… Read More "Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times"
May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / 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… Read More "NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware"
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is the backbone of modern identity management, enabling secure access to the applications, data, and services your business relies on. As hybrid work and cloud adoption accelerate, Entra ID plays an even more… Read More "Entra ID Data Protection: Essential or Overkill?"
May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananInternet of Thing / Vulnerability 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… Read More "Hackers Exploit Samsung MagicINFO, GeoVision IoT Flaws to Deploy Mirai Botnet"
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on two threat actors that orchestrate investment scams through spoofed celebrity endorsements and conceal their activity through traffic distribution systems (TDSes). The activity clusters have been codenamed Reckless Rabbit and Ruthless Rabbit by DNS… Read More "New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims"
It wasn’t ransomware headlines or zero-day exploits that stood out most in this year’s Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) — it was what fueled them. Quietly, yet consistently, two underlying factors played a role in some of the… Read More "The Silent Drivers Behind 2025’s Worst Breaches"
May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / DevOps Microsoft has warned that using pre-made templates, such as out-of-the-box Helm charts, during Kubernetes deployments could open the door to misconfigurations and leak valuable data. “While these ‘plug-and-play’ options greatly simplify the setup… Read More "Microsoft Warns Default Helm Charts Could Leave Kubernetes Apps Exposed to Data Leaks"
May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security Google has released its monthly security updates for Android with fixes for 46 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-27363… Read More "Google Fixes Android Flaw (CVE-2025-27363) Exploited by Attackers"
May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Vulnerability A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the open-source Langflow platform has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), citing evidence of active… Read More "Critical Langflow Flaw Added to CISA KEV List Amid Ongoing Exploitation Evidence"
May 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commvault Command Center to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, a little over a week after it was publicly… Read More "Commvault CVE-2025-34028 Added to CISA KEV After Active Exploitation Confirmed"
