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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/25/2025, 1:01:20 AM

Graham Cluley

2 days ago

The AI Fix #60: Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you

In episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk's bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and are bewildered that 2000 people "work" at the Candy Crush company. Plus Graham takes a look at Elon's latest creations: a giggling anime girlfriend desperate for your attention, and a cute cartoon red panda who wants to bomb a synagogue and moon the rabbi. Meanwhile Mark learns which AI is most likely to blackmail, lie, and - when the mood takes it - commit murder to avoid being switched off. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Bleeping Computer

2 days ago

Cisco: Maximum-severity ISE RCE flaws now exploited in attacks

Cisco is warning that three recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) are now being actively exploited in attacks. [...]

The Register

2 days ago

Microsoft patches critical SharePoint 2016 zero-days amid active exploits

Admins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fix Microsoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management service.…

The Hacker News

2 days ago

Credential Theft and Remote Access Surge as AllaKore, PureRAT, and Hijack Loader Proliferate

Mexican organizations are still being targeted by threat actors to deliver a modified version of AllaKore RAT and SystemBC as part of a long-running campaign. The activity has been attributed by Arctic Wolf Labs to a financially motivated hacking group called Greedy Sponge. It's believed to be active since early 2021, indiscriminately targeting a wide range of sectors, such as retail,

The Hacker News

2 days ago

Cisco Confirms Active Exploits Targeting ISE Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated Root Access

Cisco on Monday updated its advisory of a set of recently disclosed security flaws in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) to acknowledge active exploitation. "In July 2025, the Cisco PSIRT [Product Security Incident Response Team], became aware of attempted exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities in the wild," the company said in an alert. The

Dark Reading

2 days ago

Dell Breached by Extortion Group, Says Data Stolen Was 'Fake'

The World Leaks group accessed and released data from the company's Customer Solution Center, which is separated from customer and partner systems and stores primarily "synthetic" datasets used for demos and testing, Dell said.

Dark Reading

2 days ago

Critical Infrastructure Security Is a Critical Concern

To be truly resilient in the ever-growing threat landscape, organizations need to balance protection with preparation.

Dark Reading

2 days ago

Darktrace Acquires Mira Security for Network Visibility

The acquisition gives the British cybersecurity solutions provider more insights into encrypted network traffic and additional decryption capabilities.

Dark Reading

2 days ago

Marine Transportation Final Cyber Rule Goes Into Effect

The cybersecurity rule has several requirements that must be met and will follow an extended timeline over the next two years.

Bleeping Computer

2 days ago

UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks. [...]