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Apple Patches Two Actively Exploited iOS Flaws Used in Sophisticated Targeted Attacks

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, tvOS, and visionOS to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –

CVE-2025-31200 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A memory corruption vulnerability in the Core Audio framework that could allow code execution when processing an audio

Krebs Exits SentinelOne After Security Clearance Pulled

Chris Krebs has resigned from SentinelOne after security clearance withdrawn and an order to review CISA’s conduct under his leadership.

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Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor

Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. […]

Apple Quashes Two Zero-Days With iOS, MacOS Patches

The vulnerabilities are described as code execution and mitigation bypass issues that affect Apple’s iOS, iPadOS and macOS platforms.

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Google blocked over 5 billion ads in 2024 amid rise in AI-powered scams

Google blocked 5.1 billion ads and suspended more than 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its 2024 Ads Safety Report released this week. […]

Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks

Apple released emergency security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were used in an “extremely sophisticated attack” against specific targets’ iPhones. […]

MITRE CVE Program Gets Last-Hour Funding Reprieve

The US government’s cybersecurity agency CISA has “executed the option period on the contract” to keep the vulnerability catalog operational.

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Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed four different vulnerabilities in a core component of the Windows task scheduling service that could be exploited by local attackers to achieve privilege escalation and erase logs to cover up evidence of malicious activities.
The issues have been uncovered in a binary named “schtasks.exe,” which enables an administrator to create, delete, query, change,

Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com

Google has announced that it’s retiring separate country code top-level domain names like google.co.uk or google.com.br and redirecting users to Google.com. […]

Jira Down: Atlassian users experiencing degraded performance

Atlassian users are experiencing degraded performance amid an ‘active incident’ affecting multiple Jira products since morning hours today. Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management and Jira Product Discovery are among the impacted products. […]

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