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DEC29
Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of...

Krebs on Security by BrianKrebs
DEC29
Top US Accounting Firm Sax Discloses 2024 Data Breach Impacting 220,000

It took Sax well over a year to complete its investigation after detecting hackers on its network. The post Top US Accounting Firm Sax Discloses 2024 Data Breach Impacting 220,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC29
⚡ Weekly Recap: MongoDB Attacks, Wallet Breaches, Android Spyware, Insider Crime & More

Last week’s cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day behave in unexpected ways. Old flaws resurfaced. New ones were used almost immediately. A common theme ran through it all in 2025. Attackers moved faster than fixes. Access meant for work, updates, or support kept getting abused. And damage did not

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DEC29
Fortinet Warns of New Attacks Exploiting Old Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2020-12812, the exploited FortiOS flaw allows threat actors to bypass two-factor authentication. The post Fortinet Warns of New Attacks Exploiting Old Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC29
Coupang to Issue $1.17 Billion in Vouchers Over Data Breach

The ecommerce giant will provide purchase vouchers to the 33.7 million individuals impacted by the incident. The post Coupang to Issue $1.17 Billion in Vouchers Over Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC29
22 Million Affected by Aflac Data Breach

Hackers stole names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ID numbers, and medical and health insurance information from Aflac’s systems. The post 22 Million Affected by Aflac Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC29
Infostealer Malware Delivered in EmEditor Supply Chain Attack

The ‘download’ button on the official EmEditor website served a malicious installer. The post Infostealer Malware Delivered in EmEditor Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC29
Fresh MongoDB Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

Dubbed MongoBleed, the high-severity flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to leak sensitive information from MongoDB servers. The post Fresh MongoDB Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
DEC29
MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 Under Active Exploitation Worldwide

A recently disclosed security vulnerability in MongoDB has come under active exploitation in the wild, with over 87,000 potentially susceptible instances identified across the world. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), which allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely leak sensitive data from the MongoDB server memory. It has been codenamed MongoBleed. "A flaw

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DEC29
27 Malicious npm Packages Used as Phishing Infrastructure to Steal Login Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "sustained and targeted" spear-phishing campaign that has published over two dozen packages to the npm registry to facilitate credential theft. The activity, which involved uploading 27 npm packages from six different npm aliases, has primarily targeted sales and commercial personnel at critical

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DEC29
Hacker Claims Theft of 40 Million Condé Nast Records After Wired Data Leak

A hacker named Lovely made public 2.3 million records representing Wired subscriber information. The post Hacker Claims Theft of 40 Million Condé Nast Records After Wired Data Leak appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
DEC29
Traditional Security Frameworks Leave Organizations Exposed to AI-Specific Attack Vectors

In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized extraction of user data from AI memory. The result: 23.77 million secrets were leaked through AI

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DEC27
New MongoDB Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Uninitialized Memory

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has been described as a case of improper handling of length parameter inconsistency, which arises when a program fails to appropriately tackle scenarios where a length field is inconsistent with the

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DEC26
Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Breach Caused $7 Million Crypto Loss via Malicious Code

Trust Wallet is urging users to update its Google Chrome extension to the latest version following what it described as a "security incident" that led to the loss of approximately $7 million. The issue, the multi‑chain, non‑custodial cryptocurrency wallet service said, impacts version 2.68. The extension has about one million users, according to the Chrome Web Store listing. Users are advised to

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DEC26
China-Linked Evasive Panda Ran DNS Poisoning Campaign to Deliver MgBot Malware

A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System (DNS) requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting victims in Türkiye, China, and India. The activity, Kaspersky said, was observed between November 2022 and November 2024. It has been linked to a

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