Zero Day

JULY 1, 2025

Close Home Tech Security VPN How I upgraded my home Wi-Fi with a VPN-ready router (and why it makes such a big difference) Setting up a whole-home VPN can be tricky - so I tested one of the top options, Privacy Hero 2, to see if it's worth the hassle. Here's what I found.   Also: Should you upgrade to Wi-Fi 7?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

A cyberattack on the Virginia Attorney Generals Office forced officials to shut down IT systems, including email and VPN, and revert to paper filings. The ransomware group Cloak has claimed responsibility for a February cyberattack on the Virginia Attorney General Office. Chief Deputy AG Steven Popps called it a sophisticated attack.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

.” Meanwhile, this week we learned more details about the ongoing exploitation of a zero-day flaw in a broad range of virtual private networking (VPN) products made by Fortinet — devices many organizations rely on to facilitate remote network access for employees. “Patch your #Fortigate.” “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.” “You can provide us accounting data for the access to any company, for example, login and password to RDP, VPN, corporate email, etc. Open our letter at your email.

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Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2025

They then connect via VPN from wherever they are physically located (North Korea or across the border in China) and work at night so that it appears as if they are working during the day in the United States. He is also the author of the book La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Scattered Spider members are part of a broader cybercriminal community called “The Com,” where hackers brag about high-profile cyber thefts, typically initiated through social engineering tactics like phone, email, or SMS scams to gain access to corporate networks.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Social engineering attacks Social engineering attacks occur when someone uses a fake persona to gain your trust. Medical identity theft Medical identity theft happens when someone steals or uses your personal information like your name, Social Security number, or Medicare details, to get healthcare in your name.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2025

Private search engines generally avoid connecting users to their searches. Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi Vivaldi Vivaldi integrates ProtonVPN natively into its desktop version of its browser. Version 2 reduces traffic overhead and introduces dynamic configurations varying VPN tunnel characteristics.

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Zero Day

JUNE 30, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 23, 2025

Now you can see how things run when you try out a  VPN (virtual private network). How can a VPN help with throttling? In a sense, a VPN hides your IP address from service providers, so they can't target your network to slow it down -- at least not as easily. What can you do to stop internet throttling?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 10, 2025

74% of people have encountered a social engineering scam in their lives, such as phishing attempts, fake FedEx notifications, or romance scams, and 36% have fallen victim. 74% of people have encountered a social engineering scam in their lives, such as phishing attempts, fake FedEx notifications, or romance scams, and 36% have fallen victim.

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Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Also:   The best VPN services right now   Further, Cybernews blamed other media outlets for claiming that Facebook, Google, and Apple credentials were leaked. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Also:   The best VPN services right now   Further, Cybernews blamed other media outlets for claiming that Facebook, Google, and Apple credentials were leaked. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.

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Zero Day

JUNE 30, 2025

PT islander11/Getty Images Industry eyebrows were raised recently at New York Federal Reserve Bank data showing  software engineering graduates face higher unemployment rates than art history majors. The unemployment rates for computer engineering and computer science were 7.5% respectively. respectively.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, just this morning a trusted source forwarded me the VPN credentials for a major clothing retailer that were stolen by malware and made available to cybercriminals. Having a security.txt file can make it easier for organizations to respond to active security threats. I still have no idea if anyone has read it.

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Zero Day

JUNE 14, 2025

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2025

There are search engines, such as Shodan or FOFA , that let attackers scan for exposed controllers in minutes. Generative AI sustains sophisticated, multi-channel social engineering for phishing campaigns to gain access privileges to critical infrastructure. State-sponsored hackers can use those scans to pre-position in U.S.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As we warned in the State of Malware report: Poseidon boasts that it can steal cryptocurrency from over 160 different wallets, and passwords from web browsers, the Bitwarden and KeePassXC password managers, the FileZilla file transfer app, and VPN configurations including Fortinet and OpenVPN.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

CISA adds Oracle WebLogic Server and Mitel MiCollab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Threat actors breached the Argentinas airport security police (PSA) payroll Moxa router flaws pose serious risks to industrial environmets US adds Tencent to the list of companies supporting Chinese military Eagerbee backdoor targets govt entities (..)

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Zero Day

JUNE 25, 2025

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Soldier Major cybercrime operation nets 1,006 suspects UK hospital network postpones procedures after cyberattack Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say Florida Telecommunications and Information Technology Worker Sentenced for Conspiring to Act as Agent of Chinese Government Rockstar 2FA: A Driving (..)

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Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

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Zero Day

JULY 3, 2025

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Mandiant found the earliest evidence of compromise uncovered within 3CX’s network was through the VPN using the employee’s corporate credentials, two days after the employee’s personal computer was compromised. Microsoft Corp.

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Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

Microsoft, in turn, got the rights to integrate OpenAI's technology into its core products, including its Bing search engine, which was later rebranded to Microsoft Copilot.

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Zero Day

JUNE 9, 2025

Now, the models that power Apple Intelligence are becoming more capable and efficient, and we're integrating features in even more places across each of our operating systems," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.

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Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2025

CISA adds AMI MegaRAC SPx, D-Link DIR-859 routers, and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CitrixBleed 2: The nightmare that echoes the ‘CitrixBleed’ flaw in Citrix NetScaler devices Hackers deploy fake SonicWall VPN App to steal corporate credentials Mainline Health Systems data breach impacted over 100,000 (..)

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