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Can AI & the Cyber Trust Mark Rebuild Endpoint Confidence? https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/can-ai-cyber-trust-mark-rebuild-endpoint-confidence

CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/cisa-and-fda-warn-of-critical-backdoor.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale of 10.0. The flaw, alongside two other issues, was reported to CISA

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/top-5-ai-powered-social-engineering.html Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, usually with the goal of gaining access to sensitive information or protected systems.

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/italy-bans-chinese-deepseek-ai-over.html Italy's data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek's service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users' personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its training data. In particular, it wanted

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024 https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/google-bans-158000-malicious-android.html Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also noted it prevented 1.3 million apps from getting excessive or unnecessary access to sensitive user data during the time period by working with

Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/broadcom-patches-vmware-aria-flaws.html Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information. The list of identified flaws, which impact versions 8.x of the software, is below - CVE-2025-22218 (CVSS score: 8.5) - A malicious actor with View Only Admin

Healthcare Sector Charts 2 More Ransomware Attacks https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/two-attacks-target-healthcare-sector-adds-growing-list-ransomware-threats

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/google-over-57-nation-state-threat.html Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. "Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities," Google Threat

Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/authorities-seize-domains-of-popular.html An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. The effort has targeted the following domains - www.cracked.io www.nulled.to www.mysellix.io www.sellix.io www.starkrdp.io Visitors to these websites are now greeted by a seizure banner that says they were confiscated

Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/lightning-ai-studio-vulnerability.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerability, rated a CVSS score of 9.4, enables "attackers to potentially execute arbitrary commands with root privileges" by exploiting a hidden URL parameter, application security firm Noma said in a

SOC Analysts - Reimagining Their Role Using AI https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/soc-analysts-reimagining-their-role.html The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify a handful of real threats. This relentless, 24/7 work leads to alert fatigue, desensitization, and increased risk of missing critical security incidents.

DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/deepseek-ai-database-exposed-over-1.html Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data. The ClickHouse database "allows full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data," Wiz security researcher Gal

New Jailbreaks Allow Users to Manipulate GitHub Copilot https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/new-jailbreaks-manipulate-github-copilot

Automated Pen Testing Is Improving — Slowly https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/automated-pen-testing-improving-slowly

Exposure Management Provider CYE Acquires Solvo https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/exposure-management-provider-cye-acquires-solvo

Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click RCE Exploits https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/unpatched-php-voyager-flaws-leave.html Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve one-click remote code execution on affected instances. "When an authenticated Voyager user clicks on a malicious link, attackers can execute arbitrary code on the server," Sonar researcher Yaniv Nizry said in a write-up published earlier this week. The

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/new-aquabot-botnet-exploits-cve-2024.html A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of mounting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-41710 (CVSS score: 6.8), a case of command injection in the boot process that could allow a malicious actor

Fake Videos of Former First Lady Scam Namibians https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/fake-videos-former-first-lady-scam-namibians

PrintNightmare Aftermath: Windows Print Spooler is Better. What's Next? https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/windows-print-spooler-security-improves-in-wake-of-printnightmare-scare

Researchers Uncover Lazarus Group Admin Layer for C2 Servers https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/researchers-uncover-lazarus-admin-layer-c2-servers