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⚡ Weekly Recap: F5 Breached, Linux Rootkits, Pixnapping Attack, EtherHiding & More 2025-10-20 at 16:07 By It’s easy to think your defenses are solid — until you realize attackers have been inside them the whole time. The latest incidents show that long-term, silent breaches are becoming the norm. The best defense now isn’t just patching […]

131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign 2025-10-20 at 16:07 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale. The 131 spamware extensions share the same codebase, design patterns, and infrastructure, according

Analysing ClickFix: 3 Reasons Why Copy/Paste Attacks Are Driving Security Breaches 2025-10-20 at 16:07 By ClickFix, FileFix, fake CAPTCHA — whatever you call it, attacks where users interact with malicious scripts in their web browser are a fast-growing source of security breaches.  ClickFix attacks prompt the user to solve some kind of problem or challenge

BlackRock launches Bitcoin ETP after UK lifts trading ban 2025-10-20 at 15:04 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETP debuts on the London Stock Exchange as UK regulators ease rules on crypto-linked investment products. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Dead cat bounce to $118K? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-10-20 at 15:04 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin rebounded into the new week as bulls were challenged to squeeze out shorts and avoid filling the $102,000 candle wick on Binance. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Amazon AWS outage knocks Coinbase mobile app offline, Robinhood disrupted 2025-10-20 at 15:04 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai This marks the second major Amazon AWS outage since April, when “connectivity issues” created usability problems for at least eight large crypto exchanges. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day 2025-10-20 at 15:04 By Richard Speed That’s 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch Lloyds Banking Group claims employees save 46 minutes daily using Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on a survey of 1,000 users among nearly 30,000

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch 2025-10-20 at 13:19 By Joe Fay Once more into the, er, breach? The UK’s Armed Forces veterans are being tasked with one last mission – proving the government can successfully roll out a digital ID card scheme.… This article is an excerpt from The

Beyond IoCs: Modernizing Cyber Defense in the CISA 2015 Lapse 2025-10-20 at 13:17 By With the CISA 2015 temporarily lapsing, this moment spotlights the ways in which the U.S. must rethink its cyber intelligence strategy. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems 2025-10-20 at 13:17 By China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a “hacker empire” and the “greatest source

The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft’s desperation 2025-10-20 at 13:15 By Rupert Goodwins Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution! Opinion  The quantum theory of management includes an analogy for the physical law of the observer effect, where observing a system changes its state.

Aster’s quiet relisting on DefiLlama leaves ‘big gaps’ in data: Exec 2025-10-20 at 12:55 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Aster’s return to DefiLlama came with missing historical data, leaving transparency questions unresolved across DeFi dashboards. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet 2025-10-20 at 12:49 By Dan Robinson Amazon reports DNS issues hitting DynamoDB, leaving services from Roblox to McDonald’s struggling A major outage is affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), with even Amazon’s own web page reported to be offline and dozens of other online services and

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam 2025-10-20 at 11:47 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Ransomware posing as Teams installer, Cisco 0-day exploit to drop rootkit, and European cops bust SIM-box service INFOSEC IN BRIEF  Engineer David Dodda says he was just “30 seconds away” from running malware on his own