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Joint Threat to Safari and Chrome Users – Patch CVE-2025-6558 Now

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Joint Threat to Safari and Chrome Users – Patch CVE-2025-6558 Now

Apple has rolled out critical security updates across its platforms to address a high-severity vulnerability in the WebKit engine. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-6558, was exploited as a zero-day in Google Chrome and could potentially impact Safari and other Apple applications relying on WebKit. The...

Jul 30, 2025 • 3 min read

Auto-Color Backdoor Weaponizes SAP Flaw for Stealthy Access

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Auto-Color Backdoor Weaponizes SAP Flaw for Stealthy Access

A critical zero-day vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver, CVE-2025-31324, is being exploited to deliver “Auto-Color,” a stealthy Linux backdoor. The vulnerability allows for unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), enabling attackers to achieve full system compromise. Multiple threat actors, including...

Jul 29, 2025 • 6 min read

Microsoft Uncovers Sploitlight: How a Spotlight Plugin Flaw Evades macOS TCC Protections

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Microsoft Uncovers Sploitlight: How a Spotlight Plugin Flaw Evades macOS TCC Protections

Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently disclosed a serious macOS vulnerability dubbed Sploitlight. It tracked as CVE-2025-31199 that leverages Spotlight importer plugins to bypass Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework and exfiltrate files normally off-limits, including Apple Int...

Jul 28, 2025 • 4 min read

Privileged Path Hijack: Eye Security Exposes Root-Level Vulnerability in Copilot Enterprise

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Privileged Path Hijack: Eye Security Exposes Root-Level Vulnerability in Copilot Enterprise

SummaryOn April 18, 2025, Eye Security researchers identified a critical privilege escalation issue in Microsoft Copilot Enterprise’s live Python sandbox (Jupyter Notebook–based). A misconfigured entrypoint script (keepAliveJupyterSvc.sh) ran pgrep without using a full path. Because the $PATH Priori...

Jul 28, 2025 • 4 min read

Virtual Environments Under Fire: Fire Ant Campaign Breaches VMware Systems

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Virtual Environments Under Fire: Fire Ant Campaign Breaches VMware Systems

A threat actor, codenamed Fire Ant, has targeted virtualization and networking infrastructure as part of a prolonged cyber-espionage campaign uncovered in 2025. The attackers focused on exploiting vulnerabilities and abusing trusted management tools to gain persistent, hypervisor-level access across...

Jul 27, 2025 • 4 min read

Patch Now: SonicWall Addresses Critical CVE-2025-40599 in SMA Appliances Amid Exploit Risk

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Patch Now: SonicWall Addresses Critical CVE-2025-40599 in SMA Appliances Amid Exploit Risk

SonicWall has released a patch for a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-40599, affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances and is urging customers to apply the update as soon as possible. While there is no current evidence of active exploitation of this specific vulnerability in the...

Jul 24, 2025 • 5 min read

DDoS Attack – Everything You Need to Know

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DDoS Attack – Everything You Need to Know

Imagine your business website grinding to a halt. But it’s not the usual suspects, a technical glitch or human error, but because thousands of hijacked devices are hammering it with traffic, second after second. Not a single request is legitimate, yet your servers are overwhelmed and your customers ...

Jul 24, 2025 • 6 min read

Hackers Weaponize SharePoint 0-Day: Widespread Exploitation Ongoing

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Hackers Weaponize SharePoint 0-Day: Widespread Exploitation Ongoing

A critical zero-day vulnerability chain, called “ToolShell,” is actively exploited in Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises environments. This sophisticated attack vector leverages vulnerabilities to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), bypass multi-factor authentication, and enabl...

Jul 24, 2025 • 8 min read

SonicWall Fixes Actively Exploited SMA 100 Vulnerability Used in Overstep Attacks

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SonicWall Fixes Actively Exploited SMA 100 Vulnerability Used in Overstep Attacks

A critical zero-day flaw in SonicWall SMA 100 VPN appliances is being leveraged in the wild to distribute Overstep, a stealth malware capable of maintaining persistent access, stealing credentials, and executing lateral attacks. The vulnerability allows remote code execution without authentication, ...

Jul 24, 2025 • 4 min read