Category Security

The UK government’s spending watchdog has raised grave concerns about the cyber resilience of critical IT systems across departments, highlighting major gaps in system controls and visibility. The warnings came from the National Audit Office (NAO) in its Government cyber…

Jan 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. “Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected…

London’s world-famous British Museum was forced to partially close its doors at the end of last week, following a serious security breach involving a former IT contractor. As The Guardian reports, police were called to the museum on Friday after…

Jan 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6),…

Jan 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as UAC-0063 has been observed leveraging legitimate documents obtained by infiltrating one victim to attack another target with the goal of delivering a known malware…

Three Russian nationals have been sanctioned by the EU for their involvement in a 2020 cyber espionage operation targeting Estonian government agencies. In a document published on January 27, 2025, the Council of the EU imposed restrictive measures against Nikolay…

A recently discovered vulnerability in a popular online travel service has put millions of airline users worldwide at risk of account takeover. The service provides hotel and car rental booking solutions and is integrated into dozens of commercial airline online…

While passwords remain the first line of defense for protecting user accounts against unauthorized access, the methods for creating strong passwords and protecting them are continually evolving. For example, NIST password recommendations are now prioritizing password length over complexity. Hashing,…

The Lynx Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group has been found operating a highly organized platform, complete with a structured affiliate program and robust encryption methods. Researchers at Group-IB gained access to the group’s affiliate panel, revealing the inner workings of this sophisticated…

Jan 28, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched account takeover vulnerability affecting a popular online travel service for hotel and car rentals. “By exploiting this flaw, attackers can gain unauthorized access to any user’s account within…