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ESET researchers have uncovered a compact but sophisticated campaign — tracked as GhostRedirector — that has secretly turned at least 65 Internet‑facing Windows servers into a stealthy SEO‑fraud network while simultaneously installing a resilient native backdoor for long‑term access. Background...

Chrome’s September security update closes a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine — tracked as CVE-2025-9864 — that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory and potentially achieve remote code execution through a crafted web page, and administrators of...

With the clock counting down to October 14, 2025, millions of PCs face a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a short-term safety net, or keep running an increasingly risky, unsupported Windows 10—while the debate over hardware compatibility, drivers and sustainability suddenly looks...

A compact but sophisticated campaign tracked as GhostRedirector has infected at least 65 Internet‑facing Windows IIS servers and paired a stealthy native backdoor with an in‑process IIS module to run a covert, profitable SEO fraud operation that pushes third‑party gambling sites while leaving...

ESET’s researchers have uncovered a previously undocumented threat cluster that covertly poisons legitimate IIS-hosted websites to manipulate Google rankings while also planting a stealthy C++ backdoor on Windows servers — a campaign ESET calls GhostRedirector that, according to an internet-wide...

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ESET researchers have uncovered a compact but sophisticated campaign — tracked as GhostRedirector — that has compromised at least 65 Internet‑facing Windows servers and combined a native C++ backdoor with a malicious IIS native module to deliver long‑lived persistence and server‑side SEO fraud...

CISA’s latest update to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog adds three actively exploited flaws — a Linux kernel TOCTOU race condition, an Android Runtime issue, and a high‑impact Sitecore deserialization vulnerability — forcing organizations that track KEV and federal agencies...

ESET Research has uncovered a previously undocumented threat actor it calls GhostRedirector, which in June 2025 was found to have compromised at least 65 Windows servers across multiple countries and deployed two custom tools — a C++ backdoor named Rungan and a native IIS module named Gamshen...

CISA has added CVE-2025-57819 — an authentication‑bypass and SQL‑injection chain that can lead to remote code execution in Sangoma FreePBX — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and urging immediate remediation. Background FreePBX is a...

Security researchers have observed a coordinated, large‑scale reconnaissance campaign probing Microsoft Remote Desktop services that began as a sudden one‑day spike and escalated into a torrent of scans — a pattern that looks less like opportunistic background noise and more like deliberate...

CISA’s update on August 26, 2025, which bundles three focused Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories, is a timely reminder that vulnerabilities in engineering tools, PLC controllers, and system managers remain high-risk vectors for operational technology environments. The agency published...

CISA’s August 25 alert that it has added three new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog should be treated as a red alert for IT teams: two significant issues in Citrix Session Recording (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069) and a client-side Git link-following vulnerability...

This week’s wave of security headlines delivered a clear, uncomfortable message for Windows admins and security teams: the internet’s trust fabric is fraying in ways that let attackers hide inside legitimate flows — and Microsoft’s own infrastructure, link‑wrapping services, and even patch...

This week’s Cisco Talos briefing reads like a travelogue-turned-threat-advisory: after a short, evocative opening about cherry pie and Douglas firs, the post pivots sharply to an urgent security alert — a Russian state‑backed cluster Talos calls Static Tundra is actively exploiting a...

TÜV SÜD’s decision to fold Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Security Copilot into its global security operations marks a clear bet on AI-augmented defense: the German testing, inspection, and certification giant reports faster investigations, consistent reporting, and a rapid ramp-up for junior...

Security researchers have uncovered a targeted supply‑chain campaign — dubbed “Solana‑Scan” — in which malicious npm packages masquerading as Solana SDK utilities are being used to harvest developer credentials, wallet keyfiles and other high‑value artifacts from developer machines. Background /...

Microsoft’s Security Copilot arrives at a time when defenders are drowning in alerts, and the product’s promise is simple but consequential: apply generative AI to compress investigation time, automate routine triage, and translate dense telemetry into actionable decisions for security teams and...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday closed a dangerous mix of high‑impact remote code execution (RCE) flaws and a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) vulnerability that together raise the operational urgency for domain controllers, document‑processing servers, and any service...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered a heavy-duty security package this month — industry tallies vary between 107 and 111 vulnerabilities, including a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation-of-privilege issue (CVE‑2025‑53779) and roughly a dozen other critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE)...