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WAGO Device Manager Vulnerabilities Expose Critical Industrial Infrastructure to Remote Exploits

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The WAGO Device Manager is a configuration tool embedded in the firmware of WAGO’s industrial control systems (ICS). The flaws, coordinated by CERT@VDE, are tracked as CVE-2025-25264 and CVE-2025-25265, and have been assigned CVSS scores of 8.8 respectively. Support independent cybersecurity journalism.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 7 of Year 2025

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Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The research also shows that reCAPTCHA relies on fingerprinting (collecting "user agent data and other identifying information") and shares this data with advertisers. Tips for finding old accounts.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 11 of Year 2025

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Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The CEO claims that thanks to their "CoreAI" product/service/feature, they can leverage extreme personalized (and prediction) advertising for 91 percent of adults around the world.

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Expert found Russia’s SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data

Security Affairs

A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. SORM is a mass surveillance system that allows the Government of Moscow to track online activities of single individuals thanks to the support of the Russian ISPs. million). .

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Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature

Security Affairs

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Second-ever UEFI rootkit used in North Korea-themed attacks

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The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. In 2015, the hacker who breached the systems of the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team leaked a 400GB package containing hacking tools and exploits codes.

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Botnet operators target multiple zero-day flaws in LILIN DVRs

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Experts observed multiple botnets exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in DVRs for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN. Botnet operators are exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN-. ” Netlab concludes.

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