Introduction

Author: Vivek Tumma — Vivek Cyber Defense LLC Type: Simulated lab analysis / methodology update Environment: Ubuntu 14.04.6 (lab machine)…

Your weekly cybersecurity intelligence brief — curated for GRC professionals, security researchers, and policy analysts. This week brings…

I started learning about hashing today. It’s like giving every piece of data a unique digital fingerprint.

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Oh, cheap motels, how lovely your captive portals are. And totally useless, to boot.

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Step-by-step MD2PDF walkthrough showing how an HTML→PDF renderer can be abused for SSRF.

Today I spent some time in my Windows Server lab building a small PowerShell automation script — something simple but practical.

Cybersecurity Alert 2025 - Mass Distribution Underway

في عصر تتقاطع فيه الخصوصية مع الأمن، لم يعد السؤال عن “كيفية استخدام الإنترنت” هو الأهم، بل “كيف نحمي أنفسنا أثناء استخدامه؟” وهنا يبرز…

Lately, I’ve been diving into the world of evasion — not for a cert, not for a client gig, just because I realized something painful: if…

In a major security update, X (formerly Twitter) has announced that users who rely on hardware security keys or passkeys for two-factor…

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ASEC exposed a flaw in Gunra Linux ransomware: its ChaCha20 keys are generated using an insecure time()/rand() seed, potentially allowing victims to brute-force decryption and recover files.

Herodotus is a new Android banking Trojan that evades anti-fraud systems by simulating human input: it inserts randomized typing delays (300-3000ms) during remote-control attacks in Italy and Brazil.

A path traversal flaw (CVE-2025-62725) in Docker Compose lets attackers overwrite host files via remote OCI artifact annotations, triggered by read-only commands.

Kaspersky exposed BlueNoroff's GhostCall/GhostHire campaigns, which use AI-enhanced lures (GPT-4o images) and trojanized apps to target executives and developers, deploying SilentSiphon spyware on macOS.

A flaw (CVE-2025-12080) in Google Messages for Wear OS allows any installed app to send SMS/RCS messages without permission by abusing ACTION_SENDTO intents.

Akamai warns of active exploitation of Magento's SessionReaper flaw (CVE-2025-54236). The critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability allows session hijacking and unauthenticated RCE via web shells.