November 2025

WrtHug Exploits Six ASUS WRT Flaws to Hijack Tens of Thousands of EoL Routers Worldwide 2025-11-19 at 15:31 By A newly discovered campaign has compromised tens of thousands of outdated or end-of-life (EoL) ASUS routers worldwide, predominantly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, to rope them into a massive network. The router hijacking activity has […]

Researchers claim ‘largest leak ever’ after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw 2025-11-19 at 15:19 By Connor Jones Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the “largest data

Kenya’s new crypto law faces stress test as Bitcoin ATMs appear in malls 2025-11-19 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Kenyan regulators say no crypto firms are licensed under the new VASP Act and warn that providers claiming approval are doing so illegally. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Aster drops ‘Machi mode’ to reward getting rekt as Machi leads liquidations 2025-11-19 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Machi Big Brother dominates the liquidation leaderboard with 71 liquidations so far this month, far ahead of James Wynn and Andrew Tate. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI 2025-11-19 at 14:48 By Richard Speed Event supposedly for IT pros doesn’t have much to tell admins on the Windows front The Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents.… This article

Application Containment: How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software 2025-11-19 at 14:32 By The challenge facing security leaders is monumental: Securing environments where failure is not an option. Reliance on traditional security postures, such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to chase threats after they have already entered the network, is

New Hampshire approves first-of-its-kind $100M Bitcoin-backed municipal bond 2025-11-19 at 14:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski New Hampshire has approved a $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal conduit bond, letting borrowers raise capital against overcollateralized BTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Strategy rides out Bitcoin crash, still on track for S&P 500 spot: Matrixport 2025-11-19 at 14:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Strategy remains poised for an S&P 500 inclusion in 2025, as the world’s largest Bitcoin holder is unlikely to have to liquidate its holdings to service its debt. This article is an excerpt from

Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals 2025-11-19 at 13:47 By Lindsay Clark Open source RDMS popularity offers devs ‘something other than Oracle’ as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.… This

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out 2025-11-19 at 13:19 By Liam Proven Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It’s only at the “pre-PEP” stage, but it’s already sparked lively debate.… This article

BlackRock leads near $3B Bitcoin November ETF exodus with record $523M outflows 2025-11-19 at 13:00 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai US Bitcoin ETFs are nearing $3 billion in November outflows as a fresh death cross, fading Fed rate cut odds, and smart money shorts weigh on sentiment. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

US and UK revolt forces Basel to rethink brutal crypto capital rules for banks 2025-11-19 at 13:00 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Basel’s toughest crypto rules are under review as the US, UK, and the EU diverge, with booming stablecoin adoption forcing a rethink of 1,250% capital charges, the group’s chair told the FT. This

Ondo wins Liechtenstein approval to offer tokenized stocks in Europe 2025-11-19 at 13:00 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz US tokenization platform Ondo is preparing to offer tokenized stocks and ETFs in 30 European countries after receiving approval in Liechtenstein. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

EdgeStepper Implant Reroutes DNS Queries to Deploy Malware via Hijacked Software Updates 2025-11-19 at 12:31 By The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from

ServiceNow AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Acting Against Each Other via Second-Order Prompts 2025-11-19 at 12:31 By Malicious actors can exploit default configurations in ServiceNow’s Now Assist generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform and leverage its agentic capabilities to conduct prompt injection attacks. The second-order prompt injection, according to AppOmni, makes use of Now Assist’s