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PDFs: Portable documents, or perfect deliveries for phish?

A popular social engineering technique returns: callback phishing, or TOAD attacks, which leverage PDFs, VoIP anonymity and even QR code tricks.

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U.S. Sanctions Russian Bulletproof Hosting Provider for Supporting Cybercriminals Behind Ransomware

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza Group to assist threat actors in their malicious activities and targeting victims in the country and across the world. The sanctions also extend to its subsidiaries Aeza International Ltd., the U.K. branch of Aeza Group, as well

CVE-2025-49713: Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and the user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?** This attack requires an authenticated client to click a link so that an unauthenticated attacker can initiate remote code execution.

Vercel's v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale

Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate their legitimate counterparts. "This observation signals a new evolution in the weaponization of Generative AI by threat actors who have demonstrated an ability to generate a functional phishing site from simple text prompts," Okta

Silver Fox Suspected in Taiwanese Campaign Using DeepSeek Lure

The attack uses sideloading to deliver a variant of the popular Gh0stRAT malware and lures victims by posing — among other things — as a purported installer for DeepSeek's LLM.

GHSA-m43g-m425-p68x: junit-platform-reporting can leak Git credentials through its OpenTestReportGeneratingListener

### Summary This vulnerability affects JUnit's support for writing Open Test Reporting XML files which is an opt-in feature of `junit-platform-reporting`. If a repository is cloned using a GitHub token or other credentials in its URL, for example: ```bash git clone https://${GH_APP}:${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/example/example.git ``` The credentials are captured by `OpenTestReportGeneratingListener` which produces (trimmed for brevity): ```xml <infrastructure> <git:repository originUrl="https://username:[email protected]/example/example.git" /> </infrastructure> ``` ### Details https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/blob/6b7764dac92fd35cb348152d1b37f8726875a4e0/junit-platform-reporting/src/main/java/org/junit/platform/reporting/open/xml/OpenTestReportGeneratingListener.java#L183 I think this should be configurable in some way to exclude select git information or exclude it entirely. ### PoC 1. Clone a repo using a GitHub token as shown above. 2. Enable the listener `junit.platfor...

Like SEO, LLMs May Soon Fall Prey to Phishing Scams

Just as attackers have used SEO techniques to poison search engine results, they could rinse and repeat with artificial intelligence and the responses LLMs generate from user prompts.

GHSA-hc55-p739-j48w: @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem vulnerability allows for path validation bypass via colliding path prefix

Versions of Filesystem prior to 0.6.3 & 2025.7.1 could allow access to unintended files in cases where the prefix matches an allowed directory. Users are advised to upgrade to 2025.7.1 to resolve the issue. Thank you to Elad Beber (Cymulate) for reporting these issues.

GHSA-q66q-fx2p-7w4m: @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem allows for path validation bypass via prefix matching and symlink handling

Versions of Filesystem prior to 0.6.3 & 2025.7.1 could allow access to unintended files via symlinks within allowed directories. Users are advised to upgrade to 2025.7.1 to resolve. Thank you to Elad Beber (Cymulate) for reporting these issues.

LevelBlue Acquires Trustwave, Forms World's Largest Independent MSSP

As the largest managed security services provider, the combined entity will offer cyber consulting, managed detection and response, and incident response services.