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Apple has fixed yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that has apparently been exploited as a zero-day “in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” About CVE-2025-43300 CVE-2025-43300 is an out-of-bounds write issue that could be triggered by a vulnerable device processing a malicious image file, leading to exploitable memory corruption. The vulnerability affects the Image I/O framework used by Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems. Apple has fixed this flaw with improved bounds checking in: With Apple claiming the discovery of the vulnerability, it’s unlikely that we will soon find out who is/was leveraging it and for what. But even…

DOJ takes action against 22-year-old running RapperBot Botnet Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2025 DOJ charges 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Oregon for running RapperBot, a DDoS botnet behind 370K+ attacks in 80+ countries since 2021. The U.S. DOJ charged 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Oregon for running the RapperBot botnet, used in over 370,000 DDoS-for-hire attacks since 2021. The criminal service is active in over 80 countries, RapperBot enabled large-scale disruptions. Foltz, identified as its administrator, allegedly developed and managed the service, impacting global victims. RapperBot, also known as Eleven Eleven Botnet or CowBot, infects DVRs and routers to launch massive DDoS…

Doctor Web warns of Android.Backdoor.916.origin, a fake antivirus app that spies on Russian users by stealing data, streaming audio and video. Cybersecurity researchers at Doctor Web are warning about a new strain of Android malware called Android.Backdoor.916.origin. The malware has been operational since January 2025 and is capable of listening to conversations, stealing messages, streaming video, and logging keystrokes. This is the second time in the last four months that researchers have spotted malware targeting Russian infrastructure. In April 2022, Doctor Web exposed a fake Alpine Quest mapping app that was spying on the Russian military. Fake Anti-Virus Android App…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists encountered potentially disease ridden bushmeat twice within one week at Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month. Bushmeat refers to meat from wild animals—bats, non-human primates, and cane rats—from certain regions of the world that poses a significant communicable disease risk, and is illegal to import into the U.S. In the first instance, a baggage examination yielded 11 pounds of rodent meat from Togo, a country in West Africa, while another just days later resulted in the discovery of 52 pounds of primate meat, which was declared as antelope, from the Central African nation of…

In cybersecurity, timing is everything. Threats don’t wait for quarterly analyst updates, and adversaries don’t schedule their attacks to match publication calendars. We live in a world where zero-days drop overnight, AI-powered phishing campaigns spin up in hours, and ransomware operators pivot their tactics daily. In this kind of environment, static analyst reports are less.. The post Futurum Signal is Live: Real-Time Intelligence for Cyber Defenders appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Can an AI replace the way you manage crypto? That is the question behind Nexo’s new AI, an in-app AI feature that lets users ask about balances, interest earned, recent activity, and market context in plain English. Instead of tapping through menus, you ask, and you get an answer that maps to your specific account. The launch is not a one-off tool, it is a step in a larger product direction. Nexo says it is building toward intelligent digital asset engagement, where information and actions are surfaced through conversation. The assistant is public beta, and it is designed to learn…

The bad actors are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies as any of their activities must leave some footage within an ICT infrastructure, so far. The good indicator of such actions could be some web communication platforms where those individuals literally make a chord giving an opportunity to a law enforcement to once such a spot is uncovered accelerate their investigative efforts in order to resolve such criminal justice cases. To clarify, nearly no one would be sanctioned for provoking or even violent behavior on the internet, but if it’s not only about some hater’s subculture and more likely if it is…

Hackers are using a novel technique that combines legitimate office.com links with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to redirect users to a phishing page that steals Microsoft 365 logins. The method lets attackers bypass traditional URL-based detection and the multi-factor authentication process by leveraging a trusted domain on Microsoft’s infrastructure for the initial redirect. Legitimacy of a trusted redirect Researchers at Push Security, a company that provides protection solutions against identity-based attacks, analyzed a recent campaign that targeted several of its customers and redirected employees from a legitimate outlook.office.com link to a phishing website. While the phishing page did not exhibit…

It is important to understand how to use spaCy rules to identify patterns within some text. There are entities like times, dates, IBANs and emails that follow a strict structure, so it is possible to identify them with deterministic rules, for example, by using regular expressions (regexes).SpaCy simplifies the usage of regexes by making them more human-readable, so instead of weird symbols, you will use actual descriptions using the Matcher class. Token-based matching A regex is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern. There is a Python built-in library to work with regexes called re: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html Let’s see…