North Korean IT worker army expands operations in Europe
North Korea’s IT workers have expanded operations beyond the United States and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe. Also referred to as “IT warriors,” they hide their true identities and pose as workers based in other countries by connecting via laptop farms to fraudulently secure positions as remote freelance IT employees at companies worldwide […]
Apple fined €150 million over App Tracking Transparency issues
Autorité de la concurrence, France’s antitrust watchdog, has fined Apple €150 million ($162 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency privacy framework to abuse its dominant market position in mobile app advertising on its devices. App Tracking Transparency (ATT) requires apps to request users’ permission to collect their data for targeted advertising purposes before tracking them […]
Google rolls out easy end-to-end encryption for Gmail business users
Google has started rolling out a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model for Gmail enterprise users, making it easier to send encrypted emails to any recipient. While businesses also have the option to configure the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol to send digitally signed and encrypted messages, this requires significant resources, including deploying certificates to […]
Nearly 24,000 IPs behind wave of Palo Alto Global Protect scans
A significant spike in scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect login portals has been observed, with researchers concerned it may be a prelude to an upcoming attack or flaw being exploited. According to GreyNoise, which reports the activity, the scanning activity involves over 24,000 unique source IP addresses. The activity peaked at 20,000 unique IP […]
Apple backports zero-day patches to older iPhones and Macs
Apple has released security updates that backport fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities that were exploited as zero-days to older versions of its operating systems. At the same time, the consumer tech giant released security updates for the latest stable iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, addressing numerous security flaws. Backporting zero-day fixes The first backport concerns CVE-2025-24200, a flaw […]
Critical auth bypass bug in CrushFTP now exploited in attacks
Attackers are now targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the CrushFTP file transfer software using exploits based on publicly available proof-of-concept code. The security vulnerability (CVE-2025-2825) was discovered and reported by Outpost24 (which identifies it as CVE-2025-31161), and it allows remote attackers to gain unauthenticated access to devices running unpatched CrushFTP v10 or v11 software. […]
VMware Workstation auto-updates broken after Broadcom URL redirect
VMware Workstation users report that the software’s automatic update functionality is broken after Broadcom redirected the download URL to its generic support page, triggering certificate errors. The software contains a feature that checks for new updates on startup (if configured) and can be manually triggered by clicking Help > Software Updates. This will cause the program to connect […]
OpenAI says Deep Research is coming to ChatGPT free “very soon”
OpenAI has confirmed that its powerful AI agent “Deep Research” will begin rolling out to free users “very soon.” At the moment, Deep Research is available only for Plus and Enterprise customers, but it’s now being prepared for everyone, including those who do not pay for ChatGPT. As pointed out by Tibor Blaho on X, while […]
Microsoft uses AI to find flaws in GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox bootloaders
Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot loader for most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, while U-Boot and Barebox are commonly used in embedded and IoT devices. Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer […]
Phishing platform ‘Lucid’ behind wave of iOS, Android SMS attacks
A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named ‘Lucid’ has been targeting 169 entities in 88 countries using well-crafted messages sent on iMessage (iOS) and RCS (Android). Lucid, which has been operated by Chinese cybercriminals known as the ‘XinXin group’ since mid-2023, is sold to other threat actors via a subscription-based model that gives them access to over […]