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🔓 VulnWatch Monday: CVE-2026-0629

TP-Link has released fixes for a major security vulnerability affecting 32 of its VIGI C and VIGI InSight professional surveillance cameras, which could allow attackers to seize full control of vulnerable devices.
January 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM
🔎 VulnWatch Friday: CVE-2025-53690 🔓

China-linked hacking group UAT-8837 is exploiting CVE-2025-53690 (Sitecore vulnerability) to breach North American critical infrastructure, deploying the WeepSteel backdoor, according to @talosintelligence.com.
January 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
👀 VulnWatch Monday: CVE-2026-21858 🔓
aka "Ni8mare"

A security researcher reported a critical vulnerability in popular AI workflow automation platform n8n that could enable adversaries to compromise enterprise secrets.

📰 www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/maximum...
January 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 🎧 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆

We sat down with Rebecca Taylor from Sophos and @bushidotoken.net from @teamcymrus2.bsky.social to discuss 2025’s highs and lows in cyber and make educated guesses on what to look for in 2026.

feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundc...
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
𝗡𝗘𝗪 - 𝗨𝗞'𝘀 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝟭 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀

Almost one billion early-stage cyber-attacks have been prevented in the past year in the UK thanks to Share and Defend, a service run by @ncsc.gov.uk.

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-cybe...
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
𝗡𝗘𝗪 - 𝗨𝗞 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗺𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

Speaking at the @financialtimes.com's Cyber Resilience Summit: Europe today, British Security Minister Dan Jarvis said the ban on ransomware payments will include "national security exemptions."

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-rans...
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
👀 VulnWatch Monday: CVE-2025-35028 🔓

A critical vulnerability was found by the Austin Hackers Association in HexStrike AI MCP server.

takeonme.org/cves/cve-202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🔎 VulnWatch Friday: CVE-2025-66022 🔓

A critical vulnerability was discovered in Faction, a pentesting report generation framework developed by Faction Security.

🔧 This issue has been patched in version 1.7.1.
🔎 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/...
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
𝗡𝗘𝗪 - 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵

🇫🇷 The FFF detected unauthorized access to the software platform used by all licensed football clubs in France to manage administrative tasks, incl. registering their players with the federation.

📰 www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/french-...
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🇬🇧 Cyber Security & Resilience Bill: Key Changes Revealed

Shona Lester, Head of CSR Bill Team, just shared the bill's key provisions.

Here’s what’s coming:
☑️ Expanded Regulatory Scope
☑️ Enhanced Incident Reporting
☑️ Strengthened Regulatory Powers

📰 www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/key-pro...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🚨 𝐎𝐩. 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 3.0 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐬, 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐑𝐀𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦

The third "season" of Operation Endgame resulted in:
🗄️ Over 1025 servers taken down or disrupted
🌐 20 domains seized
🚪 11 locations searched
👮 One arrest

📰 www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/operati...
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 - 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

I sat down with Matthew Maynard, a cybersecurity pro by day and a cyber ghost-buster by night, who doesn’t just hunt vulnerabilities, but haunts the hackers themselves.

🎧 Listen here: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundc...
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Journalists (and politicians) have a responsibility to avoid amplifying unproven claims, no matter how tempting the headline. Let’s demand evidence-first reporting, even when the story is breaking. (4/5)
September 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
EXCLUSIVE - Why Three Vendors Pulled Out of ‘Cybersecurity Olympics’

Microsoft, SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have decided not to take part in the 2025 edition of MITRE’s EDR test.

I spoke with MITRE CTO to understand what motivated these moves.

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cyber-v...
September 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐀 2015 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 30 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬

⌛As the expiration date for the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 looms in the US, I spoke to experts about the provisions the Act offers and the debates surrounding the renewal and the consequences of non-renewal.
September 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🔎 VulnWatch Friday: CVE-2025-57819 🔓

The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team has warned of a vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

FreePBX is an open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for managing Asterisk, the popular open-source Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and telephony platform.
August 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🧐 VulnWatch Wednesday: CVE-2025-7775 🔓

Citrix has released patches for three critical zero days in NetScaler ADC and Gateway, one of which was already being exploited by attackers.

According to Kevin Beaumont, exploit campaigns 🎯CVE-2025-7775 began before the patches were made available.
August 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🧐 VulnWatch Wednesday: CVE-2025-31324 🔓

A critical vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver is now being widely exploited following the release of public exploit tooling.

🆕 The public availability of the full source code makes the exploit easy to use even for attackers with little technical expertise.
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐕𝐏𝐍 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞

FreeVPN.One, a popular Google-featured browser VPN extension, recently turned malicious and is now spying on users’ every move online.

A good read from Koi Security on 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑽𝑷𝑵 𝑫𝒂𝒚

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chrome-...
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
👀 VulnWatch Monday: CVE-2025-25256 🔓

WatchTowr Labs has published a technical analysis of CVE-2025-25256, a critical pre-auth command injection vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiSIEM, as well as a detection artifact generator.

🔧 Fix? Yes (see Fortinet's security advisory)
August 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
💸 Both agencies have decided to add $1.4m to the overall prizes (across all teams, more info to come)
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🥈 Team Trail of Bits: $3m
🥉 Team Theori: $1.5m

In total, the teams have found:

🐞 54 vulns discovered
✔️ 43 patched
0️⃣ 18 zero days
✅ 11 patched

4 models have been made open source and are already available to use. The other 3 will be made open source over the next few weeks.
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NEW 🏆Team Atlanta is the winner of DARPA’s and ARPA-H’s AI Cybersecurity Challenge (AIxCC)

🥇 They performed top in all but one category

💰 They will receive a prize of $4m
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
💸 Both agencies have decided to add $1.4m to the overall prizes (across all teams, more info to come)
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🥈 Team Trail of Bits: $3m
🥉 Team Theori: $1.5m

In total, the teams have found:

🐞 54 vulns discovered
✔️ 43 patched
0️⃣ 18 zero days
✅ 11 patched

4 models have been made open source and are already available to use. The other 3 will be made open source over the next few weeks.
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM