Microsoft said the DDoS attack was aimed at an endpoint in Australia and reached 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 Bpps.
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Cloudflare blames this week’s massive outage on database issues
On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced its worst outage in 6 years, blocking access to many websites and online platforms for almost 6 hours after a change to database access controls triggered a cascading failure across its Global Network. […]
EdgeStepper Implant Reroutes DNS Queries to Deploy Malware via Hijacked Software Updates
The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks.
EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from legitimate infrastructure used for software updates to attacker-controlled infrastructure
EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from legitimate infrastructure used for software updates to attacker-controlled infrastructure
‘PlushDaemon’ hackers hijack software updates in supply-chain attacks
The China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) tracked as ‘PlushDaemon’ is hijacking software update traffic to deliver malicious payloads to its targets. […]
ServiceNow AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Acting Against Each Other via Second-Order Prompts
Malicious actors can exploit default configurations in ServiceNow’s Now Assist generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform and leverage its agentic capabilities to conduct prompt injection attacks.
The second-order prompt injection, according to AppOmni, makes use of Now Assist’s agent-to-agent discovery to execute unauthorized actions, enabling attackers to copy and exfiltrate sensitive
The second-order prompt injection, according to AppOmni, makes use of Now Assist’s agent-to-agent discovery to execute unauthorized actions, enabling attackers to copy and exfiltrate sensitive
Fortinet Discloses Second Exploited FortiWeb Zero-Day in a Week
An OS command injection flaw, the exploited zero-day allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.
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Microsoft Unveils Security Enhancements for Identity, Defense, Compliance
Microsoft announced new security capabilities for Defender, Sentinel, Copilot, Intune, Purview, and Entra.
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Fortinet Warns of New FortiWeb CVE-2025-58034 Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Fortinet has warned of a new security flaw in FortiWeb that it said has been exploited in the wild.
The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-58034, carries a CVSS score of 6.7 out of a maximum of 10.0.
“An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiWeb may allow an authenticated attacker to execute
The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-58034, carries a CVSS score of 6.7 out of a maximum of 10.0.
“An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiWeb may allow an authenticated attacker to execute
Thunderbird adds native support for Microsoft Exchange accounts
Thunderbird 145 has been released with full native support for Microsoft Exchange email via the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol. […]
New ShadowRay attacks convert Ray clusters into crypto miners
A global campaign dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 hijacks exposed Ray Clusters by exploiting an old code execution flaw to turn them into a self-propagating cryptomining botnet. […]