Cybersecurity News Aggregator 
Last updated: 8/13/2025, 6:25:28 PM
Last updated: 8/13/2025, 6:25:28 PM
The Co-Founder and former CEO of the defunct blockchain protocol admits to schemes that cost investors and users billions....
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT exposed a sophisticated North Korean IT worker operation that infiltrates Western technology companies through remote development positions. In an Aug. 13 report, the i...
The advance occurred alongside a strong day for broader crypto markets....
FARTCOIN gains 25% in a day as analysts target a $2.40 rally, with whale buys boosting trader interest....
Cardano’s most loyal investors are bucking the usual profit-taking trend and are steadily adding to their ADA stacks even as prices and market heat indicators climb. Data from Alpharactal showed that ...
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The company opened for trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "BLSH" on Wednesday....
NEAR Protocol surged on strong institutional inflows and rising user growth, overcoming multiple resistance levels before short-term volatility set in....
A massive spike in brute-force attacks targeted Fortinet SSL VPNs earlier this month, followed by a switch to FortiManager, marked a deliberate shift in targeting that has historically preceded new vu...
Researchers observed exploitation attempts against a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 in a popular Erlang-based platform for critical infrastructure and OT development....
RDC’s Ankit Mehta says that depository receipts were the original form of tokenization and should be applied to tokenized infrastructure today to offer a scalable and legally sound foundation for mode...
The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced that a recent cyberattack has taken down its systems, including landline phone lines and email accounts. [...]...
The administration most supportive of crypto may have just highlighted the biggest barrier to crypto adoption: a retirement system where most participants never choose their investments at all, writes...
Despite the delisting, the affected cryptocurrencies remain in the green today (August 13)....
Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges have overtaken Solana in trading volume for the first time since April, buoyed by record spot ETF inflows and a surge in institutional demand....
BONK posts its strongest daily rally in weeks, hitting $0.000027 before selling pressure caps gains....
Strong buying interest and heavy trading volume supported the rally, but selling pressure emerged near $855, suggesting potential short-term consolidation....
Ethereum-focused treasury companies, including BitMine and SharpLink, indicate plans to allocate roughly $27 billion toward additional ETH acquisitions, according to an analysis by crypto market comme...
Post-settlement buying lifts token to $3.33 peak before profit-taking sends price lower into the close....
Digital Asset and a consortium of major financial institutions have completed an on-chain U.S. Treasury repo transaction on the Canton Network, involving USDC as the cash leg and tokenized Treasuries ...
The surge aligns with bullish technical setups on daily charts, including a bull flag breakout and an emerging golden cross, with pattern targets pointing toward the $0.30 zone....
XRP jumps to $3.3 after legal clarity. Analysts predict $6–$8 rally as charts echo 2017 breakout pattern....
Bitcoin is approaching a potential new all-time high, steadily advancing toward the $123K mark. Overall, both technical indicators and sentiment data point to continued upside potential, suggesting th...
The leak serves as a wake-up call: Being prepared is the cornerstone of a successful defense, and those who don't prepare are going to face uncertainty caused by the lack of attackers' accountability....
Ethereum continues its impressive rally, pushing closer to its all-time high. After breaking through the crucial $4.5K level, the market shows strong potential for a move toward the $4.8K threshold, f...
ETH sits inches away from a new all-time high now....
Ethereum's $1 trillion security initiative aims to attract institutional capital, but the chain’s transparent mempool enables $1.8 billion in malicious MEV extraction....
[PRESS RELEASE – George Town, Cayman Islands, August 13th, 2025] Token Generation Event (TGE) Scheduled for August 20 Following the release of its tokenomics paper, the Sapien Foundation, governing bo...
Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. [...]...
Cardano trades near $0.92 after strong weekly gains, with whale buying and chart signals pointing toward a $1.50 breakout....
The $119-$120K has been identified as a crucial zone. Stability above means potential $124K target, rejection risks swift leveraged downturn....
Solana (SOL) was also among the top performers, up 6.4% from Tuesday....
Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution. The vulnerability impacting Zoom C...
The TGE will unlock 25% of the total 1 billion SAPIEN tokens....
Sentient is rolling out The GRID, an open-source AGI network designed to let developers build, share, and monetize AI agents....
Analyst Geoff Kendrick cited surging institutional demand, favorable regulation and network upgrades....
Solana (SOL) has reclaimed the $200 mark after falling to around $155 in late July, following the renewed interest in the market amid the ongoing altcoin season rally. According to CryptoSlate’s data,...
Microsoft has asked customers this week to disregard incorrect CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors that appear after installing the July 2025 preview update and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 up...
OKX has executed a broad upgrade to its X Layer network and overhauled the economic model of its OKB token, implementing changes that reshape its infrastructure and supply mechanics. The update, discl...
Ethereum core dev Zak Cole lost funds after a malicious Cursor extension stole his private key, highlighting increasing wallet drainer attacks on builders....
Substantial volume expansion and technical resistance breach signal continued upward momentum towards $5.00 target zone....
Dogecoin has climbed more than 12.5% in the past 24 hours. Altcoins like Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Chainlink have also rallied in the past seven ......
Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in FortiSIEM for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25256, carries a CVSS score of 9.8...
Tempo is described as a high-performance, payments-focused layer 1 blockchain compatible with Ethereum....
Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between hal...
One of the few things many disliked about ChatGPT was the confusing number of models. OpenAI claimed GPT-5 would fix this, but it seems to have made it worse. [...]...
Metaplanet has reported its most profitable quarter to date, with second-quarter (Q2) 2025 earnings boosted by strong Bitcoin performance and strategic treasury expansion. According to the company’s A...
U.S spot Ethereum ETFs command $27.6 billion in total net assets, representing 4.77% of ETH’s market cap. Bitcoin dominance is down at 58.4%, Ethereum dominance ......
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 13, 2025...
CCN speaks to Michael Sena, Co-Founder of Recall Labs. Sena believes Recall Labs’ flagship Agent Rank platform is the answer to finding trust in the ......
Japan’s largest public bitcoin holder aims to expand its treasury operations and integrate BTC into the country’s fixed income markets....
WLFI co-founders and Donald Trump’s sons now hold leadership positions in ATL5 Sigma. ATL5 will adopt the WLFI token as part of its treasury strategy.ccn ......
Attackers exploited Odin’s liquidity pool by depositing a worthless token like SATOSHI alongside BTC, setting an inflated price ratio in the thin market....
Standard Chartered has lifted its year-end price target for Ethereum to $7,500 from $4,000, citing a stronger industry backdrop and new demand from corporate treasuries. Per Reuters, the bank also rai...
Open interest in ether futures has increased significantly, indicating bullish sentiment among traders....
US-listed spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted $523.9 million in net inflows on Aug. 12, extending their inflow streak to six days. According to SoSo Value data, this is almost eight t...
The AI revolution isn’t coming. It’s already here. From copilots that write our emails to autonomous agents that can take action without us lifting a finger, AI is transforming how we work. But here’s...
OKX’s record-breaking $7.6 billion OKB burn halved the circulating supply and sparked triple-digit price spike, and shifts focus to driving adoption of its X Layer blockchain....
The crypto investment firm and the DeFi Education Fund have proposed an approach to exempting broker registration for tech offering gateways to DeFi activity....
Ether leads the rally while markets price in near-certain September Fed rate cut....
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for a massive set of 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including one flaw that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of the release. Of...
BitMine plans to raise $24.5 billion through common stock sales to expand its ETH treasury. Already the largest corporate ETH holder, BitMine’s current holdings are ......
Google search activity for “altcoin” has reached its highest level in five years, matching interest levels last seen during Ethereum’s foundation. The surge coincides with a shift in market structure ...
While historically linked to significant price increases, the golden cross is not a reliable standalone indicator....
The US banned the sale of AI chips to China and then backed off. Now, Chinese sources are calling on NVIDIA to prove its AI chips have no backdoors....
Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs expand their crime-fighting unit with Binance as the first T3+ partner, as industry data shows crypto hacks are getting faster and harder to stop....
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, mean...
Claude Sonnet 4 has been upgraded, and it can now remember up to 1 million tokens of context, but only when it's used via API. This could change in the future. [...]...
Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data th...
The company's August security update consisted of patches for 111 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)....
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar and even your Google contacts to reference everything in a conversation. [...]...
OpenAI has begun updating its pricing page to include a new plan called 'ChatGPT Go.' It costs 399 INR (Indian Rupee) or roughly $4.55, but there's a catch. [...]...
The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. [...]...
New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images h...
Today is Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 107 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos. [...]...
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5063878 and KB5063875 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. [...]...
Microsoft has released the KB5063709 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, with seven fixes or changes, including a fix for a bug that prevented enrollment in extended security up...
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "significant spike" in brute-force traffic aimed at Fortinet SSL VPN devices. The coordinated activity, per threat intelligence firm GreyNoise, was observed ...
An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be ...
The first documented deployment of the novel malware in a campaign against the Middle Eastern public sector and aviation industry may be tied to China's state-sponsored actor Earth Baxia....
Securing business logic isn't just a technical requirement — it's a business imperative....
The SEC continues to reverse years of anti-crypto litigation and regulatory oversight. Over 300 financial institutions have adopted Ripple and XRP tech. Under new regulations, ......
South Korea’s major banks are partnering with digital finance firms to tap into the booming stablecoin sector. Regulators in Seoul are close to approving new ......
Bitcoin fell under $118,000 as traders locked in gains ahead of July CPI, with broader risk assets also easing. Median estimates point to a 0.24% ......
There's growing evidence that two of arguably the most dangerous cybercrime groups out there are tag-teaming big targets....
Stripe is reportedly developing a layer-1 blockchain called Tempo, built in partnership with Paradigm. The potential new blockchain, if integrated with MetaMask’s rumored mmUSD stablecoin, ......
Circle unveiled its EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain, Arc, built for stablecoin finance. Arc is designed to streamline stablecoin payments, forex, and enterprise-grade financial applications. The ann...
Most security tools can’t see what happens inside the browser, but that’s where the majority of work, and risk, now lives. Security leaders deciding how to close that gap often face a choice: deploy a...
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) has warned of cyber attacks exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC products to breach organizations in...
A swarm of US agencies joined with international partners to take down servers and domains and seize more than $1 million associated with BlackSuit (Royal) ransomware operations, a group that has been...
REvil affiliate Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was convicted last year for his role in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware supply chain attack, said the Russian government was instrumental to the attack's execution....
Corelight's James Pope gives Dark Reading an inside look at this year's Black Hat Network Operations Center, detailing security challenges and rising trends — many related to increased AI use....
Passwordless authentication is becoming more common, but account recovery poses increased risks that can lead to account takeovers. It's especially dangerous because even low-skilled attackers can ach...
Researchers paired the jailbreaking technique with storytelling in an attack flow that used no inappropriate language to guide the LLM into producing directions for making a Molotov cocktail....
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of security issues in the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) communications protocol, including in its proprietary end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mec...
The OPC UA communication protocol is widely used in industrial settings, but despite its complex cryptography, the open source protocol appears to be vulnerable in a number of different ways....
Malicious actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Erlang/Open Telecom Platform (OTP) SSH as early as beginning of May 2025, with about 70% of detections ori...
Securing AI systems represents cybersecurity's next frontier, creating specialized career paths as organizations grapple with novel vulnerabilities, regulatory requirements, and cross-functional deman...
This week, cyber attackers are moving quickly, and businesses need to stay alert. They’re finding new weaknesses in popular software and coming up with clever ways to get around security. Even one unp...
The Evolution of Exposure Management Most security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that sup...
The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been des...
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A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct powerful distributed denial-of-ser...
Cybersecurity researchers have presented new findings related to a now-patched security issue in Microsoft's Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) communication protocol that could be abused by an attac...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed vulnerabilities in select model webcams from Lenovo that could turn them into BadUSB attack devices. "This allows remote attackers to inject keystrokes covertl...
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a jailbreak technique to bypass ethical guardrails erected by OpenAI in its latest large language model (LLM) GPT-5 and produce illicit instructions. Generativ...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered over a dozen vulnerabilities in enterprise secure vaults from CyberArk and HashiCorp that, if successfully exploited, can allow remote attackers to crack open...
A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker rec...
A cybercrime antihero has been stealing and then reselling credentials from unsavory online characters. Their motives are questionable, but the schadenfreude is irresistible....
Cybersecurity researchers are drawing attention to a new campaign that's using legitimate generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered website building tools like DeepSite AI and BlackBox AI to cre...
While no data has yet to be misused, the university doesn't rule out the possibility of that occurring in the future, prompting it to warn affected individuals to remain vigilant in the wake of the br...
Security is everyone's responsibility, but as a CISO, it starts with you....
The tranche of information includes data on recent campaigns, attack tools, compromised credentials, and command files used by a threat actor believed to be acting on behalf of China or North Korea....
Stability DAO said it had identified two CrediX Finance team members and was working with other projects and authorities to recover the stolen funds....
A whole criminal ecosystem revolves around scamming users out of their cryptocurrency assets, but malicious — or vulnerable — smart contracts could be used against businesses as well....
Quantum computing could enable the reverse engineering of private keys from publicly exposed ones, putting the security of Bitcoin holders at risk....