Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware

Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed on February 10, 2025, as part of iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.4, macOS Ventura 13.7.4, watchOS 11.3.1,

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Researcher Found Flaw to Discover Phone Numbers Linked to Any Google Account

Google has stepped in to address a security flaw that could have made it possible to brute-force an account’s recovery phone number, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks.
The issue, according to Singaporean security researcher “brutecat,” leverages an issue in the company’s account recovery feature.
That said, exploiting the vulnerability hinges on several moving parts,

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Over 70 Organizations Across Multiple Sectors Targeted by China-Linked Cyber Espionage Group

The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets between July 2024 and March 2025.
“The victimology includes a South Asian government entity, a European media organization, and more than 70 organizations across a wide range of sectors,” SentinelOne security researchers Aleksandar

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Critical Cisco ISE Auth Bypass Flaw Impacts Cloud Deployments on AWS, Azure, and OCI

Cisco has released security patches to address a critical security flaw impacting the Identity Services Engine (ISE) that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated actors to carry out malicious actions on susceptible systems.
The security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-20286, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10.0. It has been described as a static credential vulnerability.
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit SAP and SQL Server Flaws in Attacks Across Asia and Brazil

The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023.
“The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of targeted organizations,” Trend

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Apple Blocks $9 Billion in Fraud Over 5 Years Amid Rising App Store Threats

Apple on Tuesday revealed that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone.
The company said the App Store is confronted by a wide range of threats that seek to defraud users in various ways, ranging from “deceptive apps designed to steal personal information to fraudulent payment schemes that attempt to exploit

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Customer Account Takeovers: The Multi-Billion Dollar Problem You Don’t Know About

Everyone has cybersecurity stories involving family members. Here’s a relatively common one. The conversation usually goes something like this: 
“The strangest thing happened to my streaming account. I got locked out of my account, so I had to change my password. When I logged back in, all my shows were gone. Everything was in Spanish and there were all these Spanish shows I’ve never seen

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RansomHub Went Dark April 1; Affiliates Fled to Qilin, DragonForce Claimed Control

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that RansomHub’s online infrastructure has “inexplicably” gone offline as of April 1, 2025, prompting concerns among affiliates of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation.
Singaporean cybersecurity company Group-IB said that this may have caused affiliates to migrate to Qilin, given that “disclosures on its DLS [data leak site] have doubled since

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