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Vulnerabilities of Western logistics. On May 21, Western intelligence agencies released joint advisory AA25-141A about attacks targeting infrastructure of Western logistics and tech companies. Alongside the usual Five Eyes, intelligence services from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Estonia, France, and the Netherlands also contributed. The advisory blames Fancy Bear group, allegedly linked to Russian state […]

Impressions from PHDays Fest. 🏟 🔹 The scale was just insane. You walk and walk – and there’s action everywhere, and all of it is PHDays, every bit of it. 👀 It totally blew my mind, I saw just a tiny fraction of everything that was going on. 🤯🙂 🔹 In the public area, I […]

May Linux Patch Wednesday. This time: 1091 vulnerabilities. Of those, 716 are in the Linux Kernel. 🤯 5 vulnerabilities are exploited in the wild: 🔻 RCE – PHP CSS Parser (CVE-2020-13756). In AttackerKB, an exploit exists.🔻 DoS – Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2025-27533). In AttackerKB, an exploit exists.🔻 SFB – Chromium (CVE-2025-4664). In CISA KEV.🔻 PathTrav – […]

The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware.

May “In the Trend of VM” (#15): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and the Erlang/OTP framework. A traditional monthly vulnerability roundup. 🙂 🗞 Post on Habr (rus)🗒 Digest on the PT website (rus) A total of 4 trending vulnerabilities: 🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2025-29824)🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows […]

About Remote Code Execution – 7-Zip (BDU:2025-01793) vulnerability. It’s about the fact that files unpacked using 7-Zip don’t get the Mark-of-the-Web. As a result, Windows security mechanisms don’t block the execution of the unpacked malware. If you remember, there was a similar vulnerability in January – CVE-2025-0411. The problem was with running files from the […]

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Read on for more about the botnet, the attack, and the apparent creator of this global menace.

I’m done preparing the slides for my talk about Vulristics at PHDays. 😇 I’ll be speaking on the last day of the festival – Saturday, May 24, at 16:00 in Popov Hall 25. If you’re there at that time, I’d be glad to see you. If not – join online! 😉 I’ll have an hour […]

In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. "Pompompurin," is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Adding to the sense of urgency with this month's patch batch from Redmond are fixes for two other weaknesses that now have public proof-of-concept exploits available.