From April 2024 to April 2025, Flashpoint analysts noted that the financial sector was a major target for threat actors, with 406 incidents publicly reported as ransomware attacks, accounting for seven percent of all ransomware incidents during that time. Why Finance? The financial sector consistently ranks as one of the …

Cisco has issued a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in its IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs). This vulnerability, known as CVE-2025-20188, has a CVSS score of 10, indicating the highest security flaw. The advisory highlights a vulnerability in the Out-of-Band Access Point (AP) Image Download feature …

Attackers linked to the Play ransomware operation deployed a zero-day privilege escalation exploit during an attempted attack against an organization in the U.S. The attack occurred prior to the disclosure and patching of a Windows elevation of privilege zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-29824) in the Common Log File System Driver (clfs.sys) on …