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📔 Over a Third of Grafana Instances Exposed to XSS Flaw 📔

Some 36 of Grafana instances are vulnerable to account takeover bug, putting DevOps teams at risk.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 WestJet Investigates Cyber-Attack Impacting Customers 📔

Canadian airline WestJet is investigating a cyberattack that struck on June 13.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🦅 NCSC Q1 2025 Report Reveals 14.7% Surge in Cybercrime Financial Losses in New Zealand 🦅

Cyble NCSC Q1 2025 Report Reveals 14.7 Surge in Cybercrime Financial Losses in New Zealand " dataimagecaption"Cyble NCSC Q1 2025 Report Reveals 14.7 Surge in Cybercrime Financial Losses in New Zealand " datamediumfile"httpscyble.comwpcontentuploads202506CybleBlogsNCSCQ1300x150.jpg" datalargefile"httpscyble.comwpcontentuploads202506CybleBlogsNCSCQ11024x512.jpg" title"NCSC Q1 2025 Report Reveals 14.7 Surge in Cybercrime Financial Losses in New Zealand 1" The National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released its latest Cyber Security Insights report for Q1 2025, revealing a troubling 14.7 increase in financial losses reported by New Zealanders due to cybercrime. From January 1 to March 31, this year, the New Zealands NCSC recorded 1,369 cybersecurity incidents.cyber security incidents. O...

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🖋️ Meta Starts Showing Ads on WhatsApp After 6-Year Delay From 2018 Announcement 🖋️

Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it's bringing advertising to WhatsApp, but emphasized that the ads are "built with privacy in mind." The ads are expected to be displayed on the Updates tab through its Storieslike Status feature, which allows ephemeral sharing of photos, videos, voice notes, and text for 24 hours. These efforts are "rolling out gradually," per the company. The media.

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📔 Brits Lose £106m to Romance Fraud in a Year 📔

New City of London Police data reveals British men and women lost over 100m to romance fraudsters in 2024.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🖋️ TP-Link Router Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a highseverity security flaw in TPLink wireless routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.  The vulnerability in question is CVE202333538 CVSS score 8.8, a command injection bug that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands when.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Are Forgotten AD Service Accounts Leaving You at Risk? 🖋️

For many organizations, Active Directory AD service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments are often left active with nonexpiring or stale passwords. Its no surprise.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Hard-Coded 'b' Password in Sitecore XP Sparks Major RCE Risk in Enterprise Deployments 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in the popular Sitecore Experience Platform XP that could be chained to achieve preauthenticated remote code execution. Sitecore Experience Platform is an enterpriseoriented software that provides users with tools for content management, digital marketing, and analytics and reports. The list of vulnerabilities, which are yet to be.

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🖋️ Backups Are Under Attack: How to Protect Your Backups 🖋️

Ransomware has become a highly coordinated and pervasive threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Todays ransomware attacks initially target your last line of defense your backup infrastructure. Before locking up your production environment, cybercriminals go after your backups to cripple your ability to recover, increasing the odds of a ransom payout.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ New Flodrix Botnet Variant Exploits Langflow AI Server RCE Bug to Launch DDoS Attacks 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new campaign that's actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Langflow to deliver the Flodrix botnet malware. "Attackers use the vulnerability to execute downloader scripts on compromised Langflow servers, which in turn fetch and install the Flodrix malware," Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar Zahravi, Ahmed Mohamed.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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📔 Taiwan Hit by Sophisticated Phishing Campaign 📔

Phishing campaign targeting Taiwan has been identified, using taxthemed emails and malware like Winos and HoldingHands.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Chained Flaws in Enterprise CMS Provider Sitecore Could Allow Remote Code Execution 📔

WatchTowr has found three vulnerabilities in the Sitecore Experience Platform, used by HSBC and LOral.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Microsoft Promises to Keep European Cloud Data in Europe 📔

Microsofts Sovereign Cloud solutions are designed to ensure European cloud data is stored and processed in Europe.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🖋️ Google Warns of Scattered Spider Attacks Targeting IT Support Teams at U.S. Insurance Firms 🖋️

The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider aka UNC3944 that recently targeted various U.K. and U.S. retailers has begun to target major insurance companies, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. "Google Threat Intelligence Group is now aware of multiple intrusions in the U.S. which bear all the hallmarks of Scattered Spider activity," John Hultquist, chief analyst.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🕵️‍♂️ Hackers Exploit Critical Langflow Flaw to Unleash Flodrix Botnet 🕵️‍♂️

A vulnerability in the popular Pythonbased tool for building AI agents and workflows is under active exploitation, allowing for full system compromise, DDoS attacks, and potential loss or theft of sensitive data.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🕵️‍♂️ WestJet Airlines App, Website Suffer After Cyber Incident 🕵️‍♂️

Though its operations are running smoothly, the airline warned customers and employees to exercise caution when sharing personal information online.

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📢 23andMe 'failed to take basic steps' to safeguard customer data 📢

The ICO has strong criticism for the way the genetic testing company responded to a 2023 breach.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📔 UK ICO Fines 23andMe £2.3m for Data Protection Failings 📔

23andMe has been fined over 2m by the UK ICO for failing to adequately protect genetic data.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🖋️ Silver Fox APT Targets Taiwan with Complex Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that's targeting users in Taiwan with malware families such as HoldingHands RAT and Gh0stCringe. The activity is part of a broader campaign that delivered the Winos 4.0 malware framework earlier this January by sending phishing messages impersonating Taiwan's National Taxation Bureau, Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🕵️‍♂️ Operation Endgame: Do Takedowns and Arrests Matter? 🕵️‍♂️

Cybercrime response needs more aggressive actions from those seeking to protect victims and pursue criminals.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🕵️‍♂️ Private 5G: New Possibilities — and Potential Pitfalls 🕵️‍♂️

While ushering in "great operational value" for organizations, private 5G networks add yet another layer to CISOs' responsibilities.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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