May 2025

Critical Software Vulnerabilities Rose 37% in 2024 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By A recent software vulnerability report by Action1 found a 61% year-over-year surge in discovered software vulnerabilities and a 96% spike in exploited vulnerabilities throughout 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder. “The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to

AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts.

Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets 2025-05-20 at 15:23 By Connor Jones Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains It’s more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.… This article is an excerpt from

Binance seeks to dismiss $1.76B FTX lawsuit, blames SBF for collapse 2025-05-20 at 15:11 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Binance has filed a motion to dismiss a $1.76 billion lawsuit brought by the FTX estate, accusing the defunct crypto exchange of trying to deflect blame for its own failure. Filed on May 16 in the

Intel bets you’ll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros 2025-05-20 at 14:47 By Tobias Mann Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’ Computex  When it comes to AI accelerators, Intel isn’t very competitive, and its newly announced Battlemage workstation cards don’t do much to change that. But at least they’re cheap. Really cheap.… This

The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report 2025-05-20 at 14:46 By In the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises (200 from within the USA) to understand the strategies, tactics, and tools they use to cope with the thousands of security alerts, the

Bitcoin privacy tool Payjoin receives $100K grant from Maelstrom 2025-05-20 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Bitcoin developer Ben Allen has received a $100,000 grant from investment firm Maelstrom to support the development of Payjoin, a privacy-focused tool aimed at improving Bitcoin’s scalability and privacy. According to a May 20 announcement shared with Cointelegraph,

Bitcoin is signaling a golden cross — What does it mean for BTC price? 2025-05-20 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Key takeaways: Bitcoin is nearing a golden cross that led to 45–60% price rallies in the recent past. Fundamentals like rising M2 supply and easing trade tensions support a bullish outlook. Bearish divergence and

Coinbase data leak could put users in physical danger: TechCrunch founder 2025-05-20 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai A recent data breach at crypto exchange Coinbase has raised concerns about user safety after hackers gained access to sensitive information, including home addresses. Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed that less than 1% of

Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally 2025-05-20 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver GPU accelerators used in AI processing are costly items, so making sure you get the best usage out of them ought