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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 5/13/2025, 8:57:41 PM

Dark Reading

14 days ago

Vulnerability Exploitation Is Shifting in 2024-25

The number of vulnerabilities exploited by attacks may not be growing these days, but they are increasingly affecting enterprise technologies.

The Register

14 days ago

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder Concerned a new recruit might be a North Korean stooge out to steal intellectual property and then hit an org with malware? There is an answer, for the moment at least.… RSAC

The Register

15 days ago

Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science

They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.…

The Hacker News

15 days ago

Malware Attack Targets World Uyghur Congress Leaders via Trojanized UyghurEdit++ Tool

In a new campaign detected in March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile have been targeted by a Windows-based malware that's capable of conducting surveillance. The spear-phishing campaign involved the use of a trojanized version of a legitimate open-source word processing and spell check tool called UyghurEdit++ developed to support the use of the Uyghur

The Hacker News

15 days ago

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Broadcom and Commvault Flaws to KEV Database

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two high-severity security flaws impacting Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS and Commvault Web Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-1976 (CVSS score: 8.6) - A code injection flaw

The Register

15 days ago

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users

Whoever could be behind this attack on an ethnic minority China despises? Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.…

The Register

15 days ago

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

Florida man altered allergen info, DoSed former colleagues Former Disney employee Michael Scheuer was sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined almost $688,000 for screwing up a software application the entertainment giant used to cook up its restaurant menus.…

The Register

15 days ago

Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn

Sometimes, silence is the best option An Oklahoma City cybersecurity professional accused of installing spyware on a hospital PC confirmed on LinkedIn key details of the drama.…

The Register

15 days ago

How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'

Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel Chief security officers should negotiate personal liability insurance and a golden parachute when they start a new job – in case things go sideways and management tries to scapegoat them for a network breach.… RSAC

Dark Reading

15 days ago

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Flaw Under Active Exploitation

CVE-2025-31324 is a maximum severity bug that attackers exploited weeks before SAP released a patch for it.