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Security Affairs newsletter Round 546 by Pierluigi Paganini INTERNATIONAL EDITION


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A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Winos 4.0 hackers expand to Japan and Malaysia with new malware From Airport chaos to cyber […


A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box.





Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.





Winos 4.0 hackers expand to Japan and Malaysia with new malware
From Airport chaos to cyber intrigue: Everest Gang takes credit for Collins Aerospace breach
SIMCARTEL operation: Europol takes down SIM-Box ring linked to 3,200 scams
A critical WatchGuard Fireware flaw could allow unauthenticated code execution
Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Microsoft revokes 200+ certificates abused by Vanilla Tempest in fake Teams campaign
PowerSchool hacker got four years in prison
Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
Operation Zero Disco: Threat actors targets Cisco SNMP flaw to drop Linux rootkits
U.S. CISA adds Adobe Experience Manager Forms flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
China-linked APT Jewelbug targets Russian IT provider in rare cross-nation cyberattack
U.S. CISA adds SKYSEA Client View, Rapid7 Velociraptor, Microsoft Windows, and IGEL OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Spanish fashion retailer MANGO disclosed a data breach
Qilin Ransomware announced new victims
A sophisticated nation-state actor breached F5 systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed flaw
200,000 Linux systems from Framework are shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass
SAP fixed maximum-severity bug in NetWeaver
Unencrypted satellites expose global communications
Flax Typhoon APT exploited ArcGIS server for over a year as a backdoor
Researchers warn of widespread RDP attacks by 100K-node botnet
Harvard University hit in Oracle EBS cyberattack, 1.3 TB of data leaked by Cl0p group
UK NCSC Reports 429 cyberattacks in a year, with nationally significant cases more than doubling
Unverified COTS hardware enables persistent attacks in small satellites via SpyChain
Oracle issued an emergency security update to fix new E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2025-61884
Customer payment data stolen in Unity Technologies’s SpeedTree website compromise
SimonMed Imaging discloses a data breach impacting over 1.2 million people
Microsoft revamps Internet Explorer Mode in Edge after August attacks
Astaroth Trojan abuses GitHub to host configs and evade takedowns
Google, Mandiant expose malware and zero-day behind Oracle EBS extortion
Stealit Malware spreads via fake game & VPN installers on Mediafire and Discord
Clop Ransomware group claims the hack of Harvard University




International Press – Newsletter





Cybercrime





Investigating targeted “payroll pirate” attacks affecting US universities  





Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploited in Widespread Extortion Campaign  





Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank 





SimonMed Imaging Data Breach Impacts 1.2 Million 





When the monster bytes: tracking TA585 and its arsenal  





Harvard Is First Confirmed Victim of Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack  





Qantas confirms cybercriminals released stolen customer data





Qilin Ransomware and the Ghost Bulletproof Hosting Conglomerate  





PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison 





Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks 





Microsoft Revokes 200 Fraudulent Certificates Used in Rhysida Ransomware Campaign





Cybercrime-as-a-service takedown: 7 arrested  





Bitcoin worth $14bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers  





Malware





Astaroth: Banking Trojan Abusing GitHub for Resilience 





New Rust Malware “ChaosBot” Uses Discord for Command and Control 





New Group on the Block: UNC5142 Leverages EtherHiding to Distribute Malware      





Operation Zero Disco: Attackers Exploit Cisco SNMP Vulnerability to Deploy Rootkits 





Hacking





Pro-Russian hackers caught bragging about attack on fake water utility 





One Token to rule them all – obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens  





100,000+ IP Botnet Launches Coordinated RDP Attack Wave Against US Infrastructure  





Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites  





RMPocalypse  





BombShell: The Signed Backdoor Hiding in Plain Sight on Framework Devices





Data Exfiltration via ChatGPT Agent Mode  





Pixnapping Attack  





yIKEs (WatchGuard Fireware OS IKEv2 Out-of-Bounds Write CVE-2025-9242)  





Intelligence and Information Warfare





SOE-phisticated Persistence: Inside Flax Typhoon’s ArcGIS Compromise 





Taiwan reports surge in Chinese cyber activity and disinformation efforts





Ukraine takes steps to launch dedicated cyber force for offensive strikes     





K000154696: F5 Security Incident 





Weaponizing Perception: China and Russia’s Cognitive Warfare Against Democracies





Jewelbug: Chinese APT Group Widens Reach to Russia





Taiwan flags rise in Chinese cyberattacks, warns of ‘online troll army’   





‘Categorically untrue’ that China hacked UK intelligence systems, say officials  





Italian businessman’s phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware 





DPRK Adopts EtherHiding: Nation-State Malware Hiding on Blockchains





Operation MotorBeacon : Threat Actor targets Russian Automotive Sector using .NET Implant  





BeaverTail and OtterCookie evolve with a new Javascript module





Operation Silk Lure: Scheduled Tasks Weaponized for DLL Side-Loading (drops ValleyRAT)  





Tracking Malware and Attack Expansion: A Hacker Group’s Journey across Asia





Cybersecurity





Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdown 





Employees are unknowingly leaking company secrets through ChatGPT, new report warns  





Space Force Building Tools to Detect Cyberattacks on Satellites  





Securing the Future: Changes to Internet Explorer Mode in Microsoft Edge 





Oracle releases emergency patch for new E-Business Suite flaw





RediShell: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-49844) in Redis, 10 CVSS score  





Elevating Cybersecurity: Ensuring Strategic and Sustainable Impact for CISOs 





UK experiencing four ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks every week  





New SAP NetWeaver Bug Lets Attackers Take Over Servers Without Login





Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded  





ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions  





Evaluation of DeepSeek AI Models 





404 Accountability not found: Spyware accountability through software liability   





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Pierluigi Paganini





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