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Trump nominates Sean Plankey to run top US cyber agency
/in General NewsSean Plankey, who served in cybersecurity roles in the first Trump administration, has been officially nominated to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to posting of nominations.
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What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
/in General NewsElon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that’s not how it works.
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Edimax Says No Patches Coming for Zero-Day Exploited by Botnets
/in General NewsEdimax is aware that CVE-2025-1316 has been exploited in the wild, but the impacted devices were discontinued over a decade ago.
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Ballista Botnet Exploits Unpatched TP-Link Vulnerability, Infects Over 6,000 Devices
/in General NewsUnpatched TP-Link Archer routers have become the target of a new botnet campaign dubbed Ballista, according to new findings from the Cato CTRL team.
“The botnet exploits a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in TP-Link Archer routers (CVE-2023-1389) to spread itself automatically over the Internet,” security researchers Ofek Vardi and Matan Mittelman said in a technical report shared with
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SAP Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Commerce, NetWeaver
/in General NewsSAP released 21 new security notes and updated three security notes on March 2025 security patch day.
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Sola Security Deposits Hefty $30M Seed Funding
/in General NewsThe financing was provided by S Capital and investor Mike Moritz, S32, Glilot Capital Partners, and several angel investors.
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1,600 Victims Hit by South American APT’s Malware
/in General NewsSouth American cyberespionage group Blind Eagle has infected over 1,600 organizations in Colombia in a recent campaign.
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How to Use NordPass: A Step-by-Step Guide
/in General NewsLearn how to set up and use NordPass to store and manage your passwords with this step-by-step guide.
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Some say passkeys are clunky — this startup wants to change that
/in General NewsHawcx, backed by Engineering Capital, aims to solve passkeys’ adoption challenge with its new tech.
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SideWinder APT Targets Maritime, Nuclear, and IT Sectors Across Asia, Middle East, and Africa
/in General NewsMaritime and logistics companies in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa have become the target of an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed SideWinder.
The attacks, observed by Kaspersky in 2024, spread across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Djibouti, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. Other targets of interest include nuclear power plants and nuclear energy
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