Alarm raised over ‘high-severity’ vulnerabilities in Matrix messaging protocol Summary The Matrix Foundation released an off-cycle security update to patch two “high-severity” vulnerabilities in the Matrix federated messaging protocol. The…
Whispers of XZ Utils Backdoor Live on in Old Docker Images Summary Binarly’s Aug 12th research found remnants of the infamous XZ Utils backdoor in older Docker images hosted on…
New ‘Curly’ threat actor found targeting sensitive organisations in Georgia, Moldova Summary Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has identified a threat actor it calls “Curly COMrades” that has been running espionage campaigns…
Estonians behind $577 million cryptomining fraud sentenced to 16 months Summary Two Estonian nationals, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, have been sentenced in Washington state to 16 months in prison…
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash Summary The Interlock ransomware gang has posted a 43GB trove of files it says were…
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes Summary The Matrix.org Foundation has disclosed two “high severity” protocol vulnerabilities that require a coordinated, breaking…
Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don’t have to dash to the printer to grab the ‘Fire everyone’ memo Summary Microsoft has made the “Pull Print” feature of Universal Print…
Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago Summary Malicious actors are still exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Office’s old…
Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts Summary Fortinet has warned of a critical OS command injection flaw in FortiSIEM (CVE-2025-25256) that carries a…
Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer Summary Content summary Recent Windows updates (the July 2025 non-security preview and the August 2025 security update) are…
