On May 5, 2025, Infinite Services in New York became aware of suspicious activity when employees were unable to log into the network. “Several servers were off, but one remained on which had an extension from the threat actor group,” external counsel SpencerFane informed the New Hampshire Attorney General. “The electricity was unplugged from the…
Cisco has released updates to address two critical security flaws Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-20124 (CVSS score: 9.9) – An insecure Java deserialization vulnerability in an API of Cisco ISE that could permit an…
Explore the causes and consequences of ransomware in 2025 based on findings from a vendor-agnostic survey of 3,400 organizations hit by ransomware in the last year.
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: The US government’s Login.gov identity verification system could be one cyberattack, or just a routine IT hiccup, away from serious trouble, say auditors, because it hasn’t shown its backup testing policy is actually in use or effective. The US Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday that Login.gov, which is managed by the federal government’s General…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new Golang-based backdoor that uses Telegram as a mechanism for command-and-control (C2) communications. Netskope Threat Labs, which detailed the functions of the malware, described it as possibly of Russian origin. “The malware is compiled in Golang and once executed it acts like a backdoor,” security researcher Leandro Fróes…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three flaws impacting Mitel MiCollab and Oracle WebLogic Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-41713 (CVSS score: 9.1) – A path traversal vulnerability in Mitel MiCollab that could allow…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Python library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that facilitates unauthorized music downloads from music streaming service Deezer. The package in question is automslc, which has been downloaded over 104,000 times to date. First published in May 2019, it remains available on PyPI as of writing. “Although automslc,…
