SecureWorld News

JUNE 19, 2025

As kinetic conflict continues to unfold between Israel and Iran, a parallel battle is raging in cyberspace—one that is disrupting financial systems, wiping out crypto holdings, hijacking broadcast channels, and even triggering a near-total internet shutdown.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2025

Iran experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday as tensions with Israel escalated into the first week of conflict. Global internet monitor NetBlocks reported almost near-total Internet disruptions in Iran as tensions with Israel escalated into the first week of conflict.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 18, 2025

Iran is limiting internet connectivity for citizens amid Israeli airstrikes—pushing people towards domestic apps, which may not be secure, and limiting their ability to access vital information.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. John Levine is author of the book “The Internet for Dummies” and president of CAUCE.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 8, 2025

internet providers, including AT&T, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink), and Verizon, to access systems they use for facilitating customer data to law enforcement and governments. The hacks reportedly may have resulted in the “vast collection of internet traffic”; from the telecom and internet giants.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2025

Iran confirmed an Internet shutdown to counter Israeli cyberattacks, citing threats to critical infrastructure, and interfere with drone control. Iran experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday as tensions with Israel escalated into the first week of conflict. ” states the Iranian website CHN.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

There is a new botnet that is infecting TP-Link routers: The botnet can lead to command injection which then makes remote code execution (RCE) possible so that the malware can spread itself across the internet automatically.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 27, 2025

Any of our systems that detect hard drive errors, file corruption, or dropped internet packets are integrity measures. There are deep questions here, deep as the internet. Back in the 1960s, the internet was designed to answer a basic security question: Can we build an available network in a world of availability failures?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Prosecutors say Anonymous Sudan offered a “Limited Internet Shutdown Package,” which would enable customers to shut down internet service providers in specified countries for $500 (USD) an hour. An indictment in the Central District of California notes the duo even swamped the websites of the FBI and the Department of State.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

BEARHOST prides itself on the ability to evade blocking by Spamhaus , an organization that many Internet service providers around the world rely on to help identify and block sources of malware and spam. Kaspersky did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Image: cidr-report.org.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 1, 2025

Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2025

Such floods can saturate the target’s Internet link or overwhelm internal resources with more packets than they can handle. Instead, it immediately sends data from one machine to another. UDP flood attacks send extremely high volumes of packets to random or specific ports on the target IP.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Had this been an actual attack, they would have modified the code in those buckets to contain malware and watch as it was incorporated in different software builds around the internet. This is basically the SolarWinds attack, but much more extensive. But there’s a second dimension to this attack.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2025

The CIA triad has evolved with the Internet. the Internet of today. For example, the 5G communications revolution isn’t just about faster access to videos; it’s about Internet-connected things talking to other Internet-connected things without our intervention. The first iteration of the Web—Web 1.0

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 28, 2025

The case centred around a Windscribe-owned server in Finland that was allegedly used to breach a system in Greece.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2025

A graphic from the FBI explaining how Funnull generated a slew of new domains on a regular basis and mapped them to Internet addresses on U.S. cloud providers. based cloud networks, as doing so can result in blocking access to many legitimate web destinations that are also on that same shared network segment or host.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 9, 2025

The details are interesting, and worth reading in detail: >Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The device information shared, combined with the user’s Internet address and data gathered from mobile advertising companies , could be used to deanonymize users of the DeepSeek iOS app, NowSecure warned. “Since this protection is disabled, the app can (and does) send unencrypted data over the internet.”

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 14, 2025

Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

To reduce exposure to unauthorized residential proxy networks, monitor home network traffic, check IoT devices for suspicious activity, avoid unofficial app stores, and keep all systems updated, especially by patching known and internet-facing vulnerabilities promptly. Indicators of BADBOX 2.0

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2025

For a detailed breakdown on the individual security updates released by Microsoft today, check out the Patch Tuesday roundup from the SANS Internet Storm Center. The latest Chrome update fixes two zero-day exploits in the browser (CVE-2025-5419 and CVE-2025-4664).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2025

“What makes this vulnerability so impactful is the fact that it is remotely exploitable, so attackers can reach the compromised machine(s) over the internet, and the attacker does not need significant knowledge or skills to achieve repeatable success with the same payload across any vulnerable component,” Hopkins wrote.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2025

.” Two other zero-days patched by Microsoft today also were elevation of privilege flaws: CVE-2025-32709 , which concerns afd.sys, the Windows Ancillary Function Driver that enables Windows applications to connect to the Internet; and CVE-2025-30400 , a weakness in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) library for Windows.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 20, 2025

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. KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3

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The Hacker News

JUNE 20, 2025

Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks," Cloudflare's Omer Yoachimik Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For a more detailed breakdown of today’s patches from Microsoft, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s list. Any one of these bugs could be used to install malware if an authenticated user connects to a malicious or hacked SQL database server.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” The SANS Internet Storm Center has a handy list of all the Microsoft patches released today, indexed by severity. .” “This trademark linguistic ducking and weaving may be Microsofts way of saying ‘if we told you any more, wed give the game away,'” Barnett said.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, when improperly configured or left exposed to the internet, HMIs become prime targets for cyberattacks. According to Casey Ellis, Founder and Advisor at Bugcrowd, safety-critical control systems like HMIs "should never be on the Internet." Exposing HMI systems to the Internet can have serious consequences," Raju explains.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The bot conducts ad fraud by accessing websites in the background and operates as a residential proxy, sharing the users internet connection for criminal activities, which can link the users IP address illegal activities. BadBox can also download additional payloads, amplifying the risks for the users.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2025

If you have internet-connected cameras in or around your home, be sure to check their settings. Researchers just discovered 40,000 of them serving up images of homes and businesses to the internet. These are often completely exposed to the internet, according to the report. Botnets made of up connected devices are common.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

It’s a folk belief, all over the Internet but with no actual research behind it—like the five-second rule when you drop food on the floor. It presumes people have the cognitive tools to understand the myriad potential attacks and figure out which one of the thousands of Internet actions they take is harmful.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

When Cloudflare responded by blocking the sites with a phishing warning, the real Internet address of these sites was exposed as belonging to a known “bulletproof hosting” network called Stark Industries Solutions Ltd.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2025

The MotW is an attribute added to files by Windows when they have been sourced from an untrusted location, like the internet or a restricted zone. Always be careful when opening archived files that you downloaded from the internet. 7-Zip added support for MotW in June 2022.

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