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- Taiwan NSB Alerts Public on Data Risks from TikTok, Weibo, and RedNote Over China Tiesby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on 5 July 2025 at 6:12 am
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China. The alert comes following an inspection of these apps carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) and the Criminal
- Alert: Exposed JDWP Interfaces Lead to Crypto Mining, Hpingbot Targets SSH for DDoSby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on 5 July 2025 at 5:44 am
Threat actors are weaponizing exposed Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) interfaces to obtain code execution capabilities and deploy cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. "The attacker used a modified version of XMRig with a hard-"coded configuration, allowing them to avoid suspicious command-line arguments that are often flagged by defenders," Wiz researchers Yaara Shriki and Gili
- NightEagle APT Exploits Microsoft Exchange Flaw to Target China's Military and Tech Sectorsby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on 4 July 2025 at 12:59 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit chain designed to target government, defense, and technology sectors in China. According to QiAnXin's RedDrip Team, the threat actor has been active since 2023 and has switched network
- Your AI Agents Might Be Leaking Data — Watch this Webinar to Learn How to Stop Itby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on 4 July 2025 at 9:31 am
Generative AI is changing how businesses work, learn, and innovate. But beneath the surface, something dangerous is happening. AI agents and custom GenAI workflows are creating new, hidden ways for sensitive enterprise data to leak—and most teams don’t even realize it. If you’re building, deploying, or managing AI systems, now is the time to ask: Are your AI agents exposing confidential data
- Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distrosby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on 4 July 2025 at 9:30 am
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS score: 2.8) - Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host