Security
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Cisco Webex bug lets hackers gain code execution via meeting links
Cisco has released security updates for a high-severity Webex vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain client-side remote code execution using malicious meeting invite links. Tracked as CVE-2025-20236, this security flaw was found in the Webex custom URL parser and can be exploited by tricking users into downloading arbitrary files, which lets threat actors execute […]
Critical Erlang/OTP SSH pre-auth RCE is ‘Surprisingly Easy’ to exploit, patch now
A critical vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH, tracked as CVE-2025-32433, has been disclosed that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable devices. The flaw was discovered by Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Marcel Maehren, and Jörg Schwenk of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and given a maximum severity score of 10.0. All devices running the Erlang/OTP SSH […]
Entertainment services giant Legends International discloses data breach
Entertainment venue management firm Legends International warns it suffered a data breach in November 2024, which has impacted employees and people who visited venues under its management. In a notification letter shared with the authorities, the company informs that it detected unauthorized activity in its IT systems on November 9, 2024, prompting an investigation carried […]
Windows NTLM hash leak flaw exploited in phishing attacks on governments
A Windows vulnerability that exposes NTLM hashes using .library-ms files is now actively exploited by hackers in phishing campaigns targeting government entities and private companies. The flaw tracked as CVE-2025-24054 was fixed in Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday. Initially, it was not marked as actively exploited and was assessed as ‘less likely’ to be. However, Check Point researchers […]
Chrome extensions with 6 million installs have hidden tracking code
A set of 57 Chrome extensions with 6,000,000 users have been discovered with very risky capabilities, such as monitoring browsing behavior, accessing cookies for domains, and potentially executing remote scripts. These extensions are ‘hidden,’ meaning they don’t show up on Chrome Web Store searches, nor do search engines index them, and can only be installed […]
Ahold Delhaize confirms data theft after INC ransomware claims attack
Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize confirms that data was stolen from its U.S. business systems during a November 2024 cyberattack. “Based on our investigation to date, certain files were taken from some of our internal U.S. business systems,” a spokesperson confirmed to GeekFeed. “Since the incident was detected, our teams have been working diligently to determine […]
CISA warns of increased breach risks following Oracle Cloud leak
On Wednesday, CISA warned of heightened breach risks after the compromise of legacy Oracle Cloud servers earlier this year and highlighted the significant threat to enterprise networks. CISA said, “the nature of the reported activity presents potential risk to organizations and individuals, particularly where credential material may be exposed, reused across separate, unaffiliated systems, or […]
CISA tags SonicWall VPN flaw as actively exploited in attacks
On Wednesday, CISA warned federal agencies to secure their SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances against attacks exploiting a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2021-20035, this security flaw impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v (ESX, KVM, AWS, Azure) devices. Successful exploitation can allow remote threat actors […]
Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor
Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. This exposure is being reported by threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation, which initially reported 14,000 devices were exposed. Today, Shadowserver’s Piotr Kijewski told GeekFeed that the cybersecurity organization […]
Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks
Apple released emergency security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were used in an “extremely sophisticated attack” against specific targets’ iPhones. The two vulnerabilities are in CoreAudio (CVE-2025-31200) and RPAC (CVE-2025-31201), with both bugs impacting iOS, macOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in […]