Latest news as of 9/18/2025, 6:41:59 PM
The Register
Tech evolved from PoC to global campaign in under two months An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader.…
The Hacker News
AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of the enterprise, being embedded across enterprise workflows, operating with autonomy, and making decisions about which systems to access and how to use them. But as agents grow in power and autonomy, so do the risks and threats. Recent studies show 80% of companies have already experienced unintended AI agent actions, from unauthorized system
The Hacker News
Apple on Monday backported fixes for a recently patched security flaw that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-43300 (CVSS score: 8.8), an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO component that could result in memory corruption when processing a malicious image file. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an
The Register
Latest extension to factory closures takes incident response into fourth week Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a further extension to its multi-site global shutdown, bringing its cyber-related downtime to nearly four weeks.…
The Hacker News
A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix. The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1), is capable of bypassing sophisticated protection mechanisms put in place to resist the attack. "We have proven that
The Register
Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that has affected more than 40 packages that belong to multiple maintainers. "The compromised versions include a function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local script (bundle.js), repacks the archive, and republishes it, enabling
Bleeping Computer
OpenAI is rolling out the GPT-5 Codex model to all Codex instances, including Terminal, IDE extension, and Codex Web (codex.chatgpt.com). [...]
Have I Been Pwned
In August 2025, . Following the attack, data was subsequently published on the dark web and included 870k unique email addresses across various compromised files. Data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and government-issued personal identity numbers. the Swedish system supplier Miljödata was the victim of a ransomware attack
Bleeping Computer
Google has confirmed that hackers created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) platform that law enforcement uses to submit official data requests to the company [...]