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Stay informed about the latest cybersecurity incidents, vulnerabilities, and threat landscape changes. We cover data breaches, ransomware campaigns, critical CVEs, and regulatory updates – with context on what it means for you and how to protect yourself.

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Windows blocks File Explorer preview for Internet files to curb NTLM hash leakage

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Microsoft has changed how the File Explorer preview pane behaves in Windows, closing a low‑interaction path to NTLM credential exposure. ...

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AWS Outage Leaves Eight Sleep Smart Beds Stranded, Spotlighting IoT Cloud-Dependency Risks

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

A widespread incident in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region triggered cascading service disruptions and exposed systemic weaknesses in cloud-dependent consumer IoT. Among ...

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Microsoft fixes critical Kestrel flaw (CVE-2025-55315) enabling HTTP request smuggling

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Microsoft has shipped fixes for a critical vulnerability in the Kestrel web server used by ASP.NET Core, tracked as CVE-2025-55315 ...

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US Court Bans NSO Group From Targeting WhatsApp, Orders Data Deletion, Cuts Damages to $4M

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

A US federal court in the Northern District of California has issued a permanent injunction against Israeli spyware developer NSO ...

Law enforcement officers surround a building labeled SIMCARTEL with parked vehicles.

Europol Dismantles SIMCARTEL: Inside the Global SIM-Farm Network Powering OTP Abuse and Fake Accounts

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

European law enforcement has dismantled a large-scale SIM-farm ecosystem in an operation codenamed SIMCARTEL, disrupting a global pipeline for phishing, ...

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GlassWorm Malware Exploits VS Code Extensions in Significant Supply Chain Attack

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Koi Security has documented a significant software supply chain attack in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem. A self-propagating malware dubbed ...

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Malicious npm package “https-proxy-utils” delivers AdaptixC2 and underscores open-source supply chain exposure

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Security researchers at Kaspersky identified a malicious npm package, https-proxy-utils, masquerading as a proxy utility and abusing npm lifecycle scripts ...

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TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518): Critical Rust tar parsing flaw enables RCE in tokio‑tar and forks

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Security researchers at Edera have disclosed a critical logic flaw in the abandoned Rust library async‑tar and multiple forks, including ...

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PassiveNeuron zeros in on Windows Server: new APT wave leverages SQL abuse, Cobalt Strike, and custom implants

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

A newly observed campaign by the PassiveNeuron threat actor underscores a strategic pivot toward server-side targets. According to Kaspersky’s Global ...

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Oracle VirtualBox on macOS ARM: Two CVEs Enable VM Escape, Patched in October 2025 CPU

CyberSecureFox Editorial Team

Two vulnerabilities in Oracle VirtualBox, tracked as CVE-2025-62592 and CVE-2025-61760, can be chained to escape from a guest virtual machine ...