SentinelOne: Last week’s 7-hour outage caused by software flaw
American cybersecurity company SentinelOne revealed over the weekend that a software flaw triggered a seven-hour-long outage on Thursday. This massive outage affected multiple customer-facing services in what SentinelOne described as a “global service disruption.” SentinelOne acknowledged the outage in a post published Thursday, reassuring customers that their systems were still protected. “Customer endpoints are still […]
Google Chrome to distrust Chunghwa Telecom, Netlock certificates in August
Google says it will no longer trust root CA certificates signed by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock in the Chrome Root Store due to a pattern of compliance failures and failure to make improvements. The change will come in Google Chrome version 139, which is scheduled for release on August 1, 2025. The tech giant cites ongoing compliance […]
Microsoft and CrowdStrike partner to link hacking group names
Microsoft and CrowdStrike announced today that they’ve partnered to connect the aliases used for specific threat groups without actually using a single naming standard. As the two companies explained on Monday, this will be done by mapping (or linking) the different names their security analysts use for each group they track. Microsoft has updated its threat […]
‘Russian Market’ emerges as a go-to shop for stolen credentials
The “Russian Market” cybercrime marketplace has emerged as one of the most popular platforms for buying and selling credentials stolen by information stealer malware. Although the marketplace has been active for roughly six years and became relatively popular by 2022, ReliaQuest reports that the Russian Market has recently reached new heights. Part of this surge in popularity is […]
Microsoft ships emergency patch to fix Windows 11 startup failures
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a known issue causing some Windows 11 systems to enter recovery and fail to start after installing the KB5058405 May 2025 security update. Users on the affected computers see 0xc0000098 recovery errors in ACPI.sys (the Windows Advanced Configuration and Power Interface driver, a Windows kernel-mode driver critical for […]
Qualcomm fixes three Adreno GPU zero-days exploited in attacks
Qualcomm has released security patches for three zero-day vulnerabilities in the Adreno Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) driver that impact dozens of chipsets and are actively exploited in targeted attacks. The company says two critical flaws (tracked as CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-21480) were reported through the Google Android Security team in late January, and a third high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-27038) was […]
Exploit details for max severity Cisco IOS XE flaw now public
Technical details about a maximum-severity Cisco IOS XE WLC arbitrary file upload flaw tracked as CVE-2025-20188 have been made publicly available, bringing us closer to a working exploit. The write-up by Horizon3 researchers does not contain a ‘ready-to-run’ proof of concept RCE exploit script, but it does provide enough information for a skilled attacker or […]
Hackers are exploiting critical flaw in vBulletin forum software
Two critical vulnerabilities affecting the open-source forum software vBulletin have been discovered, with one confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-48827 and CVE-2025-48828, and rated critical (CVSS v3 score: 10.0 and 9.0 respectively), are an API method invocation and a remote code execution (RCE) via template engine abuse flaws. They impact vBulletin […]
Microsoft now testing Notepad text formatting in Windows 11
Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed the WordPad basic word processing app that had text formatting capabilities, with the rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel. “With this update, we […]
Police takes down AVCheck site used by cybercriminals to scan malware
An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. The service’s official domain at avcheck.net now displays a seizure banner with the crests of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. […]