April 2025

Android Update Patches Two Exploited Vulnerabilities

Android Update Patches Two Exploited Vulnerabilities 2025-04-08 at 13:26 By Ionut Arghire Android’s latest security update resolves two exploited Kernel vulnerabilities, as well as critical-severity bugs. The post Android Update Patches Two Exploited Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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IBM’s z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance

IBM’s z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By Dan Robinson Who wouldn’t want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can’t solve for Trump tariffs) IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support

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CISA Adds CrushFTP Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Confirmed Active Exploitation

CISA Adds CrushFTP Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Confirmed Active Exploitation 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting CrushFTP has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after reports emerged of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability is a

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Threat Actors Setting Up Persistent Access to Hosts Hacked in CrushFTP Attacks

Threat Actors Setting Up Persistent Access to Hosts Hacked in CrushFTP Attacks 2025-04-08 at 12:06 By Eduard Kovacs Huntress has shared details on the post-exploitation activities of threat actors targeting the recent CrushFTP vulnerability. The post Threat Actors Setting Up Persistent Access to Hosts Hacked in CrushFTP Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash

Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash 2025-04-08 at 11:39 By Lindsay Clark Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university

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The gold standard is back — Stablecoins need to rethink what ‘backing’ really means

The gold standard is back — Stablecoins need to rethink what ‘backing’ really means 2025-04-08 at 11:22 By Cointelegraph by William Campbell Opinion by: William Campbell, advisory lead at USDKG Stablecoins were heralded as a breakthrough in the cryptocurrency space as a way to marry the lightning-fast, borderless nature of digital assets with the stability

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UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year

UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year 2025-04-08 at 10:56 By Connor Jones Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries The UK’s data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints.…

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China’s tariff response may mean more capital flight to crypto: Hayes

China’s tariff response may mean more capital flight to crypto: Hayes 2025-04-08 at 10:18 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young China’s response to America’s sweeping trade tariffs could result in capital flight to Bitcoin and crypto, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. “If not the Fed [Federal Reserve], then the PBOC [People’s Bank of China] will

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Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying

Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying 2025-04-08 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe’s anti-fraud org isn’t probing European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament – and perhaps also to

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PowerDMARC to showcase email security advancements at RSAC 2025

PowerDMARC to showcase email security advancements at RSAC 2025 2025-04-08 at 09:48 By Industry News PowerDMARC, a leading provider of email authentication and domain security solutions, is excited to announce its participation at RSAC 2025 Conference (April 28 – May 1) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. PowerDMARC will be exhibiting at Booth ESE-01,

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Nigerian court postpones Binance tax evasion case to end of April: Report

Nigerian court postpones Binance tax evasion case to end of April: Report 2025-04-08 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan A Nigerian court has reportedly delayed the country’s tax evasion case against Binance until April 30 to give time for Nigeria’s tax authority to respond to a request from the crypto exchange. Reuters reported on

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Excessive agency in LLMs: The growing risk of unchecked autonomy

Excessive agency in LLMs: The growing risk of unchecked autonomy 2025-04-08 at 08:39 By Help Net Security For an AI agent to “think” and act autonomously, it must be granted agency; that is, it must be allowed to integrate with other systems, read and analyze data, and have permissions to execute commands. However, as these

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Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital gets SEC nod for Nasdaq listing

Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital gets SEC nod for Nasdaq listing 2025-04-08 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Artificial intelligence and crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital has been given the nod from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange.  The company, which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

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Phishing, fraud, and the financial sector’s crisis of trust

Phishing, fraud, and the financial sector’s crisis of trust 2025-04-08 at 08:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec The financial sector is under growing pressure from advanced phishing attacks and fraud, causing major financial losses and eroding customer trust. Escalation of phishing attacks While traditional phishing relied on generic emails to steal sensitive data, cybercriminals now use targeted

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Observability is security’s way back into the cloud conversation

Observability is security’s way back into the cloud conversation 2025-04-08 at 08:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Esteban Gutierrez, CISO and VP of Information Security at New Relic, discusses how the adoption of cloud infrastructure is outpacing security readiness. He shares strategies for overcoming common misconfigurations and optimizing access controls in

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Google Releases Android Update to Patch Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Releases Android Update to Patch Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities 2025-04-08 at 07:54 By Google has shipped patches for 62 vulnerabilities, two of which it said have been exploited in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-53150 (CVSS score: 7.8) – An out-of-bounds flaw in the USB sub-component of Kernel that

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Cyberattacks on water and power utilities threaten public safety

Cyberattacks on water and power utilities threaten public safety 2025-04-08 at 07:33 By Help Net Security 62% of utility operators were targeted by cyberattacks in the past year, and of those, 80% were attacked multiple times, according to Semperis. 54% suffered permanent corruption or destruction of data and systems. (Source: Semperis) Utilities face rising cyber

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Samsung trumps USA’s tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

Samsung trumps USA’s tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed 2025-04-08 at 07:20 By Simon Sharwood May also have fixed AI memory biz if better-than-expected revenue guidance is anything to go by World War Fee  Samsung Electronics doesn’t fear the impact of the USA’s new tariffs regime on its displays business because

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