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Chrome Zero-Day Exploited to Deliver Italian Memento Labs’ LeetAgent Spyware
The zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome led to the distribution of an espionage-related tool from Italian information technology and services provider Memento Labs, according to new findings from Kaspersky. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3), a case of sandbox escape which the company disclosed in March 2025…
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SideWinder Adopts New ClickOnce-Based Attack Chain Targeting South Asian Diplomats
A European embassy located in the Indian capital of New Delhi, as well as multiple organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder in September 2025. The activity “reveals a notable evolution in SideWinder’s TTPs, particularly the adoption of…
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Commissioners appoint Rep. Christine Drazen, who’s also running for governor, to Bonham’s vacant Senate seatr
THE GORGE — Commissioners spanning four counties selected former gubernatorial candidate and House Minority Leader Christine Drazen to fill Oregon’s Senate District 26 seat, which has been vacant since Daniel Bonham resigned last month, during an Oct. 23 vote.
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X Warns Users With Security Keys to Re-Enroll Before November 10 to Avoid Lockouts
Social media platform X is urging users who have enrolled for two-factor authentication (2FA) using passkeys and hardware security keys like Yubikeys to re-enroll their key to ensure continued access to the service. To that end, users are being asked to complete the re-enrollment, either using their existing security key or enrolling a new one,…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: WSUS Exploited, LockBit 5.0 Returns, Telegram Backdoor, F5 Breach Widens
Security, trust, and stability — once the pillars of our digital world — are now the tools attackers turn against us. From stolen accounts to fake job offers, cybercriminals keep finding new ways to exploit both system flaws and human behavior. Each new breach proves a harsh truth: in cybersecurity, feeling safe can be far…
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Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack
The ransomware group known as Qilin (aka Agenda, Gold Feather, and Water Galura) has claimed more than 40 victims every month since the start of 2025, barring January, with the number of postings on its data leak site touching a high of 100 cases in June. The development comes as the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has…
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ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands
The newly released OpenAI Atlas web browser has been found to be susceptible to a prompt injection attack where its omnibox can be jailbroken by disguising a malicious prompt as a seemingly harmless URL to visit. “The omnibox (combined address/search bar) interprets input either as a URL to navigate to, or as a natural-language command…
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Smishing Triad Linked to 194,000 Malicious Domains in Global Phishing Operation
The threat actors behind a large-scale, ongoing smishing campaign have been attributed to more than 194,000 malicious domains since January 1, 2024, targeting a broad range of services across the world, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. “Although these domains are registered through a Hong Kong-based registrar and use Chinese nameservers,…
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Commissioners appoint Rep. Christine Drazen to Oregon’s Senate, filling Bonham’s vacant seat
THE GORGE — Commissioners spanning four counties selected former gubernatorial candidate and House Minority Leader Christine Drazen to fill Oregon’s Senate District 26 seat, which has been vacant since Daniel Bonham resigned last month, during an Oct. 23 vote.
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Critical WSUS Vulnerability
Microsoft on Thursday released out-of-band security updates to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability with a proof-of-concept (Poc) exploit publicly available and has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59287 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution flaw in WSUS that was originally fixed by the…
