The Critical Patch Update contains 374 new security patches that resolve many vulnerabilities.
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Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases
The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more important security factor, and passphrases are the simplest way to get your users to create
Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky.
The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and East Asia in June, using
The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and East Asia in June, using
Hackers Earn Over $520,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
Participants exploited 34 previously unknown vulnerabilities to hack printers, NAS devices, and smart home products.
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TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several
TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution
TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –
CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS score: 8.6) – An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker who can log in to the web management
Vidar Stealer 2.0 adds multi-threaded data theft, better evasion
The operators of Vidar Stealer, one of the most successful malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operations of the past decade, have released a new major version to reflect massive improvements in the malware. […]
TP-Link warns of critical command injection flaw in Omada gateways
TP-Link has made firmware updates available for a broad range of Omada gateway models to address four vulnerabilities, among which a critical pre-auth OS command injection. […]
CISA confirms hackers exploited Oracle E-Business Suite SSRF flaw
CISA has confirmed that an Oracle E-Business Suite flaw tracked as CVE-2025-61884 is being exploited in attacks, adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. […]
Cursor, Windsurf IDEs riddled with 94+ n-day Chromium vulnerabilities
The latest releases of Cursor and Windsurf integrated development environments are vulnerable to more than 94 known and patched security issues in the Chromium browser and the V8 JavaScript engine. […]