News – October 2025


  • Security bug in India’s income tax portal exposed taxpayers’ sensitive data

    October 7, 2025

    The Indian government’s tax authority has fixed a security flaw in its income tax filing portal that was exposing sensitive taxpayers’ data, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with authorities. The flaw, discovered in September by a pair of security researchers Akshay CS and “Viral,” allowed anyone who was logged into the income tax department’s e-Filing ...

  • French prosecutors probe Apple’s Siri following complaint

    October 6, 2025

    French prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating tech giant Apple’s, opens new tab voice assistant Siri after receiving a complaint from a tech researcher accusing the company of illicit data collection. The probe, which was first reported by the news website Politico, has been entrusted to a police force specialised in cybercrime, the prosecutors’ office ...

  • Oracle patches actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in E-Business Suite

    October 6, 2025

    Oracle has patched a critical vulnerability in E-Business Suite that was actively exploited in data theft attacks by the Clop group. This is a zero-day vulnerability, registered as CVE-2025-61882, which allows remote code execution on affected systems without authentication. The flaw is located in the Concurrent Processing component of Oracle E-Business Suite, in the integration with ...

  • Discord hit by data breach after hackers strike support tickets

    October 6, 2025

    Discord has warned users it suffered a cyberattack which caused a potentially worrying data breach. In a data breach notification announcement posted on the company’s blog, Discord said a third party, providing customer support services, was breached. “The unauthorized party then gained access to information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through ...

  • A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses

    October 4, 2025

    South Korea is world-famous for its blazing-fast internet, near-universal broadband coverage, and as a leader in digital innovation, hosting global tech brands like Hyundai, LG, and Samsung. But this very success has made the country a prime target for hackers and exposed how fragile its cybersecurity defenses remain. The country is reeling from a string of ...

  • Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases

    October 3, 2025

    A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The loosely organized group, which has been known as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters, has published a dedicated data leak site ...

  • Self-Propagating Malware Spreading Via WhatsApp, Targets Brazilian Users

    October 3, 2025

    Trend Research is currently investigating an aggressive malware campaign that leverages online instant messaging platform WhatsApp as its primary infection vector. Unlike traditional attacks focused on theft or ransomware, this campaign is engineered for speed and propagation, abusing social trust and automation to spread among Windows users. Trend Research analysis identifies the campaign as SORVEPOTEL, and ...

  • Cavalry Werewolf raids Russia’s public sector with trusted relationship attacks

    October 2, 2025

    BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence recorded Cavalry Werewolf activity from May to August 2025. In order to gain initial access, the attackers sent out targeted phishing emails disguising them as official correspondence from Kyrgyz government officials. The main targets of the attacks were Russian state agencies, as well as energy, mining, and manufacturing enterprises. Cavalry Werewolf relied ...

  • UK: Renault and Dacia customer data stolen in third party cyber attack

    October 2, 2025

    Renault has become the most recent victim of a cyber attack. Customers of the French firm and its sister brand Dacia have been warned that their personal data, including postal addresses and emails, has been stolen by hackers. In an email sent out to customers, Renault said: “We are very sorry to inform you about a ...

  • Confucius Espionage: From Stealer to Backdoor

    October 2, 2025

    The Confucius group is a long-running cyber-espionage actor operating primarily across South Asia. First identified in 2013, the group is believed to have links to state-sponsored operations in the region. Over the past decade, Confucius has repeatedly targeted government agencies, military organizations, defense contractors, and critical industries—especially in Pakistan—using spear-phishing and malicious documents as initial access ...