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A threat actor with ties to China has been attributed to a five-month-long intrusion targeting a Russian IT service provider, marking the hacking group’s expansion to the country beyond Southeast Asia and South America. The activity, which took place from January to May 2025, has been attributed by Broadcom-owned Symantec to a threat actor it…

On October 15, 2025, F5 reported that a nation-state threat actor had gained long-term access to some F5 systems and exfiltrated data, including source code and information about undisclosed product vulnerabilities. This information may enable threat actors to compromise F5 devices by developing exploits for these vulnerabilities. The UK National Cyber Security Centre also notes…

Microsoft throws a farewell party for Win10, Office 2016, and Office 2019… a very big party

U.S. cybersecurity company F5 on Wednesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors broke into its systems and stole files containing some of BIG-IP’s source code and information related to undisclosed vulnerabilities in the product. It attributed the activity to a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor,” adding the adversary maintained long-term, persistent access to its network. The

The Clop ransomware group claimed responsibility for stealing the university’s data as part of a broader campaign against Oracle customers.

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk. “A leaked VSCode Marketplace or Open VSX PAT [personal access token] allows an attacker to directly distribute a malicious…

TLDR Even if you take nothing else away from this piece, if your organization is evaluating passkey deployments, it is insecure to deploy synced passkeys. Synced passkeys inherit the risk of the cloud accounts and recovery processes that protect them, which creates material enterprise exposure. Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) kits can force authentication fallbacks that circumvent strong

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a whopping 183 security flaws spanning its products, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild, as the tech giant officially ended support for its Windows 10 operating system unless the PCs are enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. Of the 183 vulnerabilities,…

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