Author: HackWatchit

The interconnected nature of organizational systems has made it more complicated to identify and protect industrial crown jewels, especially as nation-state hackers and state-sponsored adversaries attempt to breach such environments. Apart from the physical machines and production systems, these crown jewels now include legacy equipment, digital twins, remote access gateways, and cloud platforms, with the flow of data between these technologies spread widely. These systems keep industries functioning, but they are often frail, patchy, or next to impossible to take offline, so defense is a constant game of balancing acts. Cyber-physical sabotage is on the rise, with groups like Iran’s…

Caladan plugs into Finery Markets’ ECN as OTC crypto volumes and stablecoin settlement surge, reshaping routing, risk, and execution for institutions.Read All

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Redmond first told BleepingComputer last week that it is aware of users reporting SSD failures after installing this month’s Windows 11 24H2 security update. In a subsequent service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Redmond said that it was unable to reproduce the issue on up-to-date systems and began collecting user reports with additional details from those affected. “After thorough investigation, Microsoft has found no connection between the August 2025 Windows security update…

A coalition of international cybersecurity agencies led by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has publicly linked three China-based technology companies to a long-running global cyberattack campaign. In a new advisory, the NCSC and partners from twelve other countries, the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain shared technical details about a campaign that has targeted critical networks since at least 2021. The attacks have impacted several high-profile organisations around the world in sectors like government, telecommunications, transportation, and military infrastructure. The data stolen could ultimately provide Chinese…

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 300k+ Plex Media Server instances still vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-34158Over 300,000 internet-facing Plex Media Server instances are still vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-34158, a critical vulnerability for which Plex has issued a fix for earlier this month, Censys has warned. Git vulnerability leading to RCE is being exploited by attackers (CVE-2025-48384)CVE-2025-48384, a recently patched vulnerability in the popular distributed revision control system Git, is being exploited by attackers. Protecting farms from hackers: A Q&A with John Deere’s Deputy CISOIn this Help Net Security interview,…

Security Affairs newsletter Round 539 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2025 A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime U.S. Government Seizes Online Marketplaces Selling Fraudulent Identity Documents Used in Cybercrime Schemes   Auchan announces that it has been the victim of “an act of cybercrime”, with “hundreds of thousands” of its customers’ data hacked   Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce…

is coloring a picture of a flower that has six petals arranged in a circle. She wants to color each of the six petals with exactly one of the following four colors: red, orange, yellow, and blue. No two neighboring petals can have the same color. Not all four colors need to be used. How many ways are there for Rita to color the flower petals while satisfying these constraints? This was the basis of problem #25 in the 2025 Cayley Contest, and it happens to be a specific example of a class of combinatorial data science problems related to…

Sports gambling has DraftKings. Political junkies have PredictIt. And now the world’s nerdiest corner — the artificial intelligence (AI) scene — has its own set of bettors, where people wager actual money on whether Google’s Gemini will dunk on OpenAI’s GPT-5 this month. Forget fantasy football, this is fantasy machine learning. People are placing their bets on markets like Kalshi, where they can trade on the outcome of real-world events, everything from when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will wed to whether Google will break up and, of course, the AI model race. Kalshi saw 10 times the volume on…

Credit reporting firm TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) is notifying more than 4.4 million people that their personal information was compromised in a data breach. The incident occurred on July 28, 2025, the company said in data breach notifications sent to the impacted individuals, copies of which were submitted to the Maine and Texas Attorney General’s Offices. According to TransUnion, the data breach involved personal information stored in a third-party application, including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. “TransUnion recently experienced a cyber incident that affected a third-party application serving our US consumer support operations. Upon discovery, we quickly contained…