Elevation-of-Privilege Vulns Dominate Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 111 unique CVEs, and a striking proportion — roughly 44 (39%) — are elevation-of-privilege (EoP) issues that…
RealDefense Opens $10M Fund to Help OEMs Monetise Installs With SmartScan Cybersecurity SDK Summary RealDefense has launched a $10 million SmartScan Prepay Fund to accelerate partner integrations of its SmartScan…
New Crypto24 Ransomware Attacks Bypass EDR Summary Trend Micro researchers have identified a new Crypto24 ransomware campaign that demonstrates advanced technical skill and the ability to disable endpoint detection and…
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident Summary UK-based Colt Technology Services confirmed a “cyber incident” that has caused service disruptions since 12 August 2025. The outage affected the…
Using Security Expertise to Bridge the Communication Gap Summary Mike Riemer (Ivanti) argues that the biggest obstacle to stronger product security is not a lack of technical skill but a…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary Colt Technology Services confirmed it is recovering from a cyber incident that caused outages earlier in the week.…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group describe a growing trend called “ghost-tapping”, in which organised criminal groups in Southeast Asia…
Summary Cisco has released a patch for a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Tracked as CVE-2025-20265 and rated CVSS 10.0, the flaw stems…
Summary The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has partially overturned an appeals court decision in the long-running Axel Springer v Eyeo (Adblock Plus) copyright dispute and sent the matter…
Typhoon-adjacent Chinese crew broke into Taiwanese web host Summary Cisco Talos says a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) tracked as UAT-7237 breached an unnamed Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal…
