Iranian Hackers Maintain 2-Year Access to Middle East CNI via VPN Flaws and Malware

An Iranian state-sponsored threat group has been attributed to a long-term cyber intrusion aimed at a critical national infrastructure CNI entity in the Middle East that lasted nearly two years. The activity, which lasted from at least May 2023 to February 2025, entailed "extensive espionage...

PT-2025-18916 · Undefined · Undefined

ParsedReport CompletenessHigh 01-05-2025 Investigating Iranian Intrusion into Strategic Middle East Critical Infrastructure https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/reports/report-incident-response-middle-east.pdf Report completeness: High Actors/Campaigns: Fox kitten Bohrium Unc1878...

PT-2025-18918 · Undefined · Undefined

ParsedReport CompletenessHigh 01-05-2025 Investigating Iranian Intrusion into Strategic Middle East Critical Infrastructure https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/reports/report-incident-response-middle-east.pdf Report completeness: High Actors/Campaigns: Fox kitten Bohrium Unc1878...

PT-2025-18917 · Undefined · Undefined

ParsedReport CompletenessHigh 01-05-2025 Investigating Iranian Intrusion into Strategic Middle East Critical Infrastructure https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/reports/report-incident-response-middle-east.pdf Report completeness: High Actors/Campaigns: Fox kitten Bohrium Unc1878...

Nebulous Mantis Targets NATO-Linked Entities with Multi-Stage Malware Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Russian-speaking cyber espionage group called Nebulous Mantis that has deployed a remote access trojan known as RomCom RAT since mid-2022. RomCom "employs advanced evasion techniques, including living-off-the-land LOTL tactics and encrypted command a...

Security-By-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned

This paper presents our experience, in the context of an industrial R&D project, on securing GENIO, a platform for edge computing on Passive Optical Network PON infrastructures, and based on Open-Source Software OSS. We identify threats and related mitigations through hardening, vulnerability...

SentinelOne Uncovers Chinese Espionage Campaign Targeting Its Infrastructure and Clients

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has revealed that a China-nexus threat cluster dubbed PurpleHaze conducted reconnaissance attempts against its infrastructure and some of its high-value customers. "We first became aware of this threat cluster during a 2024 intrusion conducted against an...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Rapid Infrastructure Automation

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM Rapid Infrastructure Automation v1.1.5 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-47875 DESCRIPTION: DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMpurify was vulnerable to nesting-based mXSS. This...

USN-7462-1 linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-iot vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - GPU drivers; - Network drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system NFS server...

USN-7462-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - GPU drivers; - Network drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system NFS server...

USN-7461-1 linux, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - GPU drivers; - Network drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system NFS server...

dRPC Launches NodeHaus to Streamline Blockchain and Web3 Infrastructure

Blockchain infrastructure provider dRPC has announced the launch of a NodeHaus platform that enables chain foundations unprecedented control…...

USN-7448-1 linux-azure, linux-azure-6.11 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify the target namespace when handling upcalls. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2025-2312 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An...

Node.js Test CI Security Incident

Node.js Test CI Security Incident Update 23-April-2025 Node.js Test CI Security Incident – Full Disclosure Summary On March 21, 2025, we received a security report via HackerOne link restricted at time of writing, detailing a successful compromise of several Node.js test CI hosts. According to th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: rpki-client-9.5-1.fc42

The OpenBSD rpki-client is a free, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI for Relying Parties RP to facilitate validation of the Route Origin of a BGP announcement. The program queries the RPKI repository system, downloads and validates Route Origin Authorisatio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: rpki-client-9.5-1.fc40

The OpenBSD rpki-client is a free, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure RPKI for Relying Parties RP to facilitate validation of the Route Origin of a BGP announcement. The program queries the RPKI repository system, downloads and validates Route Origin Authorisatio...

Experts Uncover New XorDDoS Controller, Infrastructure as Malware Expands to Docker, Linux, IoT

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of continued risks posed by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS malware known as XorDDoS, with 71.3 percent of the attacks between November 2023 and February 2025 targeting the United States. "From 2020 to 2023, the XorDDoS trojan has increased significantly...

PT-2025-32193

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Exchange Server versions prior to the April 2025 Hot Fix Description A high-severity vulnerability CVE-2025-53786 exists in Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid deployments. This vulnerability allows attackers with administrative access ...

Unmasking the new XorDDoS controller and infrastructure

Cisco Talos observed an existing distributed denial-of-service DDoS malware known as XorDDoS, continuing to spread globally between November 2023 and February 2025. A significant finding shows that over 70 percent of attacks using XorDDoS targeted the United States from Nov. 2023 to Feb. 2025. Th...

From Third-Party Vendors to U.S. Tariffs: The New Cyber Risks Facing Supply Chains

Introduction Cyber threats targeting supply chains have become a growing concern for businesses across industries. As companies continue to expand their reliance on third-party vendors, cloud-based services, and global logistics networks, cybercriminals are exploiting vulnerabilities within these...