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GNOME 50: Wayland-Only Brings Enhanced Security and Isolation

GNOME 50 finally drops X11 for good. Jordan Petridis called it on the GNOME blog, and the change landed with Mutter's merge request !4505. That's the code that…

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Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware Capabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with th…

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Cisco Warns of New Firewall Attack Exploiting CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362

Cisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that's designed to target devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security App…

Cisco

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WhatsApp Rolls Out Passkey-Secured Backups On Android, iOS

After the recent update, WhatsApp users can experience passkey-secured backups for their conversations. WhatsApp has…WhatsApp Rolls Out Passkey-Secured Backups…

Android

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From Tabletop to Turnkey: Building Cyber Resilience in Financial Services

IntroductionFinancial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescrip…

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ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Tools in Malware, Botnets, GDI Flaws, Election Attacks & More

Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent vi…

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SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach

SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall confi…

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Linux Kernel Security 2025: Curly COMrades Exploits and Risks Exposure

Linux security entered new territory in 2025. Espionage groups that once focused on Windows began treating Linux as equal ground. The Russia-aligned Curly COMr…

Linux Windows

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Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly

Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts w…

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Researchers Find ChatGPT Vulnerabilities That Let Attackers Trick AI Into Leaking Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited b…

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LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

What Is Kali Linux? How Security Professionals Use It

A penetration tester can build a security workstation on almost any Linux distribution. The problem is the amount of setup that comes with it. Scanners, packet…

Linux

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LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Kali Linux 2025: Ethical Pentesting and Blue Team Integration

What is Kali Linux? The 2025 Guide for Security OperationsKali Linux is a Debian-based system built and maintained by Offensive Security. It's made for penetra…

Linux

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Ransomware Defense Using the Wazuh Open Source Platform

Ransomware is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system or encrypt data until a ransom is paid. This cyberattack is one of the most prev…

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Google’s AI ‘Big Sleep’ Finds 5 New Vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari WebKit

Google's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity agent called Big Sleep has been credited by Apple for discovering as many as five different securit…

Apple

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U.S. Prosecutors Indict Cybersecurity Insiders Accused of BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have accused a trio of allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies with BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware between May a…

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Malicious VSX Extension "SleepyDuck" Uses Ethereum to Keep Its Command Server Alive

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck.According to Se…

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The Evolution of SOC Operations: How Continuous Exposure Management Transforms Security Operations

Security Operations Centers (SOC) today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjustin…

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Ubuntu: Kernel Advisory CVE-2024-0193 Medium Privilege Escalation Impact

The OverlayFS bug in Ubuntu last year slipped through normal testing. Nothing exotic, a permissions issue in the filesystem layer that let local users climb th…

Linux

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ASD Warns of Ongoing BADCANDY Attacks Exploiting Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previ…

Cisco

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Nation-State Hackers Deploy New Airstalk Malware in Suspected Supply Chain Attack

A suspected nation-state threat actor has been linked to the distribution of a new malware called Airstalk as part of a likely supply chain attack.Palo Alto Ne…

Palo Alto

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The MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Guide: Turning Security into Growth

MSPs are facing rising client expectations for strong cybersecurity and compliance outcomes, while threats grow more complex and regulatory demands evolve. Mea…

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A New Security Layer for macOS Takes Aim at Admin Errors Before Hackers Do

A design firm is editing a new campaign video on a MacBook Pro. The creative director opens a collaboration app that quietly requests microphone and camera per…

Apple

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Python: Tarfile Arbitrary File Write Risk CVE-2025-4517

CVE-2025-4517 sits inside Python's packaging stack. It turns archive extraction into an arbitrary file-write vector that hits core supply chain security. On pa…

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Russian Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Open-Source AdaptixC2 for Advanced Attacks

The open-source command-and-control (C2) framework known as AdaptixC2 is being used by a growing number of threat actors, some of whom are related to Russian r…