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WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor

WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor

Dec 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyberwarfare / Threat Intelligence An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite… 

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Unpatched Gogs Zero-Day Exploited Across 700+ Instances Amid Active Attacks

Unpatched Gogs Zero-Day Exploited Across 700+ Instances Amid Active Attacks

Dec 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security A high-severity unpatched security vulnerability in Gogs has come under active exploitation, with more than 700 compromised instances accessible over the internet, according to new findings from Wiz.… 

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Chrome Targeted by Active In-the-Wild Exploit Tied to Undisclosed High-Severity Flaw

Chrome Targeted by Active In-the-Wild Exploit Tied to Undisclosed High-Severity Flaw

Dec 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability Google on Wednesday shipped security updates for its Chrome browser to address three security flaws, including one it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability,… 

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Active Attacks Exploit Gladinet’s Hard-Coded Keys for Unauthorized Access and Code Execution

Active Attacks Exploit Gladinet’s Hard-Coded Keys for Unauthorized Access and Code Execution

Dec 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Encryption Huntress is warning of a new actively exploited vulnerability in Gladinet’s CentreStack and Triofox products stemming from the use of hard-coded cryptographic keys that have affected nine organizations so… 

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React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors

React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors

React2Shell continues to witness heavy exploitation, with threat actors leveraging the maximum-severity security flaw in React Server Components (RSC) to deliver cryptocurrency miners and an array of previously undocumented malware families, according to new findings… 

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.NET SOAPwn Flaw Opens Door for File Writes and Remote Code Execution via Rogue WSDL

.NET SOAPwn Flaw Opens Door for File Writes and Remote Code Execution via Rogue WSDL

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Web Services New research has uncovered exploitation primitives in the .NET Framework that could be leveraged against enterprise-grade applications to achieve remote code execution. WatchTowr Labs, which has codenamed… 

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Three PCIe Encryption Weaknesses Expose PCIe 5.0+ Systems to Faulty Data Handling

Three PCIe Encryption Weaknesses Expose PCIe 5.0+ Systems to Faulty Data Handling

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananHardware Security / Vulnerability Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) protocol specification that could expose a local attacker to serious… 

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WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups

WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw impacting the WinRAR file archiver and compression utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,… 

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How Attackers Exploit Cloud Misconfigurations Across AWS, AI Models, and Kubernetes

How Attackers Exploit Cloud Misconfigurations Across AWS, AI Models, and Kubernetes

Dec 10, 2025The Hacker NewsCloud Security / Threat Detection Cloud security is changing. Attackers are no longer just breaking down the door; they are finding unlocked windows in your configurations, your identities, and your code.… 

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Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days

Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days

Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, three are rated… 

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