July Patch Tuesday offers 127 fixes
The seventh month is always a big one for Microsoft, and this year is no exception
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ServiceNow Flaw CVE-2025-3648 Could Lead to Data Exposure via Misconfigured ACLs
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ServiceNow’s platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in data exposure and exfiltration. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3648 (CVSS score: 8.2), has been described as a case of data inference in Now Platform through conditional access control list (ACL) rules. It has been codenamed Count(er) Strike. “A…
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North American APT Uses Exchange Zero-Day to Attack China
Stories about Chinese APTs attacking the US and Canada are plentiful. In a turnabout, researchers found what they believe is a North American entity attacking a Chinese entity, thanks to a mysterious issue in Microsoft Exchange.
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Browser Exploits Wane as Users Become the Attack Surface
For browsers, exploitation is out — getting users to compromise their own systems is in. Improved browser security has forced attackers to adapt their tactics, and they’ve accepted the challenge.
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A NVIDIA Container Bug & Chance to Harden Kubernetes
A container escape flaw involving the NVIDIA Container Toolkit could have enabled a threat actor to access AI datasets across tenants.
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New AI Malware PoC Reliably Evades Microsoft Defender
Worried about hackers employing LLMs to write powerful malware? Using targeted reinforcement learning (RL) to train open source models in specific tasks has yielded the capability to do just that.
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Gold Melody IAB Exploits Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys for Unauthorized Access to Targets
The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that access to other threat actors. The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker TGR-CRI-0045, where “TGR” stands for “temporary…
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Rubio Impersonator Signals Growing Security Threat From Deepfakes
An impostor who posed as the secretary of state in text and voice communications with diplomats and politicians demonstrates the increased sophistication of and national security threat posed by the AI technology.
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Know Your Enemy: Understanding Dark Market Dynamics
To help counter crime, today’s organizations require a cyber-defense strategy that incorporates the mindset of the cybercriminal.
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DoNot APT Expands Operations, Targets European Foreign Ministries with LoptikMod Malware
A threat actor with suspected ties to India has been observed targeting a European foreign affairs ministry with malware capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised hosts. The activity has been attributed by Trellix Advanced Research Center to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called DoNot Team, which is also known as APT-C-35, Mint Tempest,…