Digital Compliance Alert: UK Online Safety Act and EU Digital Services Act Cross-Border Impact Analysis

As of July 25, 2025, all sites and apps that allow pornography will need to have strong age checks in place, to make sure children can’t access that or other harmful content. This represents the most significant change to how Read More …

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP – a Northamptonshire transport company – is just one of tens of thousands Read More …

Australia mandates age verification on major platforms, threatens $50M fines

Australia is implementing comprehensive internet age verification and ID check requirements as part of a major overhaul of online safety regulation. By December 27, 2025, major platforms including Google and Microsoft must implement age verification checks on their search engines Read More …

CISA warns hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ security flaw

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says hackers are actively exploiting a critical-rated security flaw in a widely used Citrix product, and has given other federal government departments just one day to patch their systems. Security researchers have dubbed the bug “Citrix Read More …

Cyberattack on Brazil tech provider affects reserve accounts of some financial institutions

Brazil’s central bank said on Wednesday that technology services provider C&M Software, which serves financial institutions lacking connectivity infrastructure, had reported a cyberattack on its systems. The bank did not provide further details of the attack, but said in a Read More …

Cisco Releases Security Advisory Affecting Cisco Identity Service Engine

Cisco has released a security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities, affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) . CVE-2025-20281 Cisco ISE API Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2025-20281 is an ‘API unauthenticated remote code execution’ Read More …

Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials

The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database is a longtime privacy nightmare that has been difficult to fully address. But the new discovery of a massive trove of 184 million records—including Apple, Read More …

Google Confirms Gmail Warning – 3 Billion Users Must Now Act

Google has confirmed another attack on Gmail users that combines inherent vulnerabilities in the platform with devious social engineering. The net result is a flurry of headlines and viral social media posts followed by an urgent platform update. Google’s security Read More …

ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains

In this blog entry, Trend Micro researchers look at overly permissive cloud service credentials in Microsoft’s public-facing assets and assess their potential implications on software supply chain and software integrity. We do this by exploring two scenarios involving PC Manager, Read More …

Password Spray Attacks Taking Advantage of Lax MFA

In the first quarter of 2025, Rapid7’s Managed Threat Hunting team observed a significant volume of brute-force password attempts leveraging FastHTTP, a high-performance HTTP server and client library for Go, to automate unauthorized logins via HTTP requests. This rapid volume Read More …