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MITRE shares 2025’s top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses
MITRE has shared this year’s top 25 list of the most dangerous software weaknesses behind over 39,000 security vulnerabilities disclosed between June 2024 and June 2025. The list was released in cooperation with the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which manage and sponsor the […]
CISA warns of Chinese “BrickStorm” malware attacks on VMware servers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned network defenders of Chinese hackers backdooring VMware vSphere servers with Brickstorm malware. In a joint malware analysis report with the National Security Agency (NSA) and Canada’s Cyber Security Centre, CISA says it analyzed eight Brickstorm malware samples. These samples were discovered on networks belonging to victim organizations, where […]
CISA warns Oracle Identity Manager RCE flaw is being actively exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning government agencies to patch an Oracle Identity Manager tracked as CVE-2025-61757 that has been exploited in attacks, potentially as a zero-day. CVE-2025-61757 is a pre-authentication RCE vulnerability in Oracle Identity Manager, discovered and disclosed by Searchlight Cyber analysts Adam Kues and Shubham Shahflaw. The flaw stems […]
CISA gives govt agencies 7 days to patch new Fortinet flaw
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their systems within a week against another vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall, which was exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-58034, this OS command injection flaw can allow authenticated threat actors to execute code as root in low-complexity attacks that don’t require user interaction. “An Improper […]
CISA warns feds to fully patch actively exploited Cisco flaws
CISA warned U.S. federal agencies to fully patch two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Firepower devices. Tracked as CVE-2025-20362 and CVE-2025-20333, these security flaws allow remote threat actors to access restricted URL endpoints without authentication and gain code execution on vulnerable Cisco firewall devices, respectively. If chained, they can enable unauthenticated attackers to […]
CISA warns of WatchGuard firewall flaw exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned government agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability impacting WatchGuard Firebox firewalls. Remote attackers can use this critical security flaw (CVE-2025-9242) to execute malicious code remotely on vulnerable devices by exploiting an out-of-bounds write weakness in firewalls running Fireware OS 11.x (end of life), 12.x, and 2025.1. […]
CISA orders feds to patch Samsung zero-day used in spyware attacks
CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies today to patch a critical Samsung vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks to deploy LandFall spyware on devices running WhatsApp. Tracked as CVE-2025-21042, this out-of-bounds write security flaw was discovered in Samsung’s libimagecodec.quram.so library, allowing remote attackers to gain code execution on devices running Android 13 and later. While Samsung patched it in […]
CISA warns of critical CentOS Web Panel bug exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that threat actors are exploiting a critical remote command execution flaw in CentOS Web Panel (CWP). The agency has added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and is giving federal entities subject to the BOD 22-01 guidance until November 25 to apply available security updates and […]
CISA: High-severity Linux flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs
CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ransomware attacks. While the vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-1086) was disclosed on January 31, 2024, as a use-after-free weakness in the netfilter: nf_tables kernel component and was fixed via a commit submitted in January 2024, it was first introduced […]
CISA orders feds to patch VMware Tools flaw exploited by Chinese hackers
On Thursday, CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their systems against attacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom’s VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools software. Tracked as CVE-2025-41244 and patched one month ago, this vulnerability allows local attackers with non-administrative privileges to a virtual machine (VM) with VMware Tools and managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled […]