News

Vulnerability in PayU CommercePro plugin allows account hijacking on thousands of WordPress sites

New PathWiper malware targeted Ukrainian critical infrastructure, using legitimate tools for cyber-attacks

A new Trump Executive Order limits the use of cybersecurity-related sanctions only against foreign malicious actors

The Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging North Korean IT workers amassed $7m+

The FBI says mainly Chinese-made IoT devices pose a threat from Badbox 2.0 malware

The ransomware group combines IT vendor impersonation and phishing frameworks like Evilginx to breach its targets

Experts at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlighted a range of major industry trends, from advanced social engineering techniques to vulnerability exploits

The first service combining the power of Sophos and Secureworks.

Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught.

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. Google says it’s investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

The covert tracking­implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers­allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they’re off-limits for every other site.

Washington Post article.

Southern New England is having the best squid run in years.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.