Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) that could permit an attacker to login to a susceptible device as the root user, allowing them to gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20309, carries a…

Passengers’ personal information was likely accessed via a third-party platform used at a call center, but didn’t include passport or credit card info.

Attackers can abuse malicious extensions to access critical data, including credentials, but organizations can reduce the risks by raising awareness and enforcing strict policy controls.

A likely China-nexus threat actor has been exploiting unpatched Ivanti vulnerabilities to gain initial access to victim networks and then patching the systems to block others from breaking in to the same network.

In the past, the bulletproof group has been affiliated with many well-known ransomware and malware groups, such as BianLian and Lumma Stealer.

A Russian APT known as “Gamaredon” is using spear-phishing attacks and network-drive weaponization to target government entities in Ukraine.

A new threat vector exploits how modern browsers save HTML files, bypassing Mark of the Web and giving attackers another social-engineering attack for delivering malware.

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting Web3 and cryptocurrency-related businesses with malware written in the Nim programming language, underscoring a constant evolution of their tactics. “Unusually for macOS malware, the threat actors employ a process injection technique and remote communications via wss, the TLS-encrypted version of the WebSocket protocol,”

The ever-growing volume of vulnerabilities and threats requires organizations to remain resilient and anti-fragile — that is, to be able to proactively respond to issues and continuously improve.

By using social engineering tactics, threat actors are able to manipulate their victims into saving and renaming files that will backfire against them.