- Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks
December 12, 2025
Apple and Google have released several software updates to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users. On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser, noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it. ...
- Data breach at credit check giant 700Credit affects at least 5.6 million
December 12, 2025
At least 5.6 million people had their names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers stolen in a data breach at 700Credit, a company that runs credit checks and identity verification services for auto dealerships across the United States. In a statement on its website, the Michigan-based company blamed the October data breach on an ...
- Multifunction Printer Security Concerns within the Enterprise Business Environment
December 11, 2025
Multifunction printers (MFPs) do far more than print. They scan, email, fax, store, and authenticate. That convenience comes with risk. Our latest report, Understanding Multifunction Printer (MFP) Security within the Enterprise Business Environment, from Rapid7’s Deral Heiland, Principal Security Researcher (IoT), and Sam Moses, Security Consultant, takes a clear look at where MFPs expand your ...
- Hunting for Mythic in network traffic
December 11, 2025
Threat actors frequently employ post-exploitation frameworks in cyberattacks to maintain control over compromised hosts and move laterally within the organization’s network. While they once favored closed-source frameworks, such as Cobalt Strike and Brute Ratel C4, open-source projects like Mythic, Sliver, and Havoc have surged in popularity in recent years. Malicious actors are also quick to adopt ...
- 16TB of corporate intelligence data exposed in one of the largest lead-generation dataset leaks
December 11, 2025
More than 16 terabytes of professional and corporate intelligence data, including personally identifiable information (PII), was sitting in an unprotected database, available to anyone who knew where to look. This is according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews who found the database and described it as “one of the largest lead-generation datasets to have ever leaked.” Despite ...
- Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
December 11, 2025
A security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon’s members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco. SentinelLabs’ Dakota Cary linked Yu Yang and Qiu Daibing, two alleged members of the Chinese state hacking group, to participants of the 2012 Cisco Networking Academy Cup. The initiative is still going ...
- Australia: Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms
December 11, 2025
It’s day one of the social media ban and, unsurprisingly, it hasn’t been a smooth launch. Many children have already been able to get around the ban in various ways, with age assurance systems misclassifying users and workarounds such as VPNs and make-up tricks being used. The government admitted the ban would not be perfect or ...
- CVE-2025-55182: React2Shell Analysis, Proof-of-Concept Chaos, and In-the-Wild Exploitation
December 10, 2025
Trend Micro researchers have previously published a blog on what organizations need to know about the actively exploited CVE-2025-55182, which is a critical (CVSS 10.0) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting React Server Components (RSC) used in React.js, Next.js, and related frameworks. RSC is a modern architecture where UI components run on the server instead of ...
- Patch Tuesday – December 2025
December 10, 2025
Microsoft is publishing a relatively light 54 new vulnerabilities this December 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly lower than we have come to expect over the past couple of years. Today’s list includes two publicly disclosed remote code vulnerabilities, and a single exploited-in-the-wild vulnerability. Three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities are also patched today; Microsoft ...
- U.S. Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat Two Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Criminal Hacking Groups
December 9, 2025
The Justice Department announced two indictments in the Central District of California charging Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya, for her role in conducting cyberattacks and computer intrusions against critical infrastructure and other victims around the world, in support of Russia’s geopolitical interests. Dubranova was extradited to the ...