On February 21, the Australian Department of Home Affairs issued a directive prohibiting the installation of Kaspersky Lab products and services on all Australian government systems and devices. The directive under the protective security policy framework (PSPF) mandates federal entities to eliminate “all instances” of Kaspersky’s products. Home Affairs secretary …

CISA has added a serious security flaw in the Craft content management system (CMS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog due to evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 (CVSS score: 8.1) affects Craft CMS versions 4 and 5. It was fixed by the maintainers in late December 2024 with …

On February 19, 2025, the illegal marketplace B1ack’s Stash released over 1 million unique stolen credit and debit card details for free. This approach mirrors the strategy used by BidenCash, where criminals distribute stolen data widely to attract attention to their marketplace. On February 17, a popular deep web forum …

Cisco Talos reported that  Salt Typhoon, also known as FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor, has been spying on U.S. telecommunication providers using a custom tool called JumbledPath. Active since at least 2019, they have targeted government entities and telecom companies. Salt Typhoon is still targeting telecommunications providers worldwide, and according to a …

A free tool is now available to scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials. Security engineer Anmol Singh Yadav created AWS-Key-Hunter after discovering over 100 exposed AWS access keys, many with high privileges, in public repositories. He described these findings as “just waiting to be exploited” in his blog about …

An unknown threat cluster has targeted European healthcare organizations, deploying PlugX and ShadowPad. In some cases, these intrusions resulted in the use of ransomware called NailaoLocker. Orange Cyberdefense CERT’s Green Nailao campaign targeted a newly patched security flaw (CVE-2024-24919, CVSS score: 7.5) in Check Point network gateway products. The attacks …

Citrix has issued security updates for a serious vulnerability in the NetScaler Console and NetScaler Agent that could allow privilege escalation in specific situations. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 It involves improper handling of user …

The FBI and CISA reported on Wednesday that the ransomware group Ghost has been exploiting software and firmware vulnerabilities as recently as January. The group targets internet services with old, unpatched vulnerabilities that users could have addressed years ago. Cybersecurity researchers began alerting the public about the group in 2021. …

Palo Alto Networks has issued urgent warnings about threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the operating system powering its next-generation firewalls. Coordinated attacks can exploit flaws in authentication and privilege escalation to gain unauthorized access to unpatched devices, threatening the security of enterprise networks. CVE-2025-0108 is a serious authentication …

Indian government and educational websites, along with reputable financial brands, have experienced SEO poisoning, causing user traffic to be redirected to dubious sites promoting rummy and other investment games. Analysts at CloudSEK have found that threat actors are using black hat Search Engine Poisoning to promote Rummy and investment websites …