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WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user roleRead More »WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud

Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud

The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via WhatsApp a worm that deploys a banking trojan in attacks targeting users in Brazil. The latest wave is characterizedRead More »Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud

Niobium Raises $23 Million for FHE Hardware Acceleration

The startup will invest the funds in accelerating development of its second-generation fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) platforms. The post Niobium Raises $23 Million for FHE Hardware Acceleration appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft Silently Mitigated Exploited LNK Vulnerability

Windows now displays in the properties tab of LNK files critical information that could reveal malicious code. The post Microsoft Silently Mitigated Exploited LNK Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q3 2025

Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q3 2025

In the third quarter, attackers continued to exploit security flaws in WinRAR, while the total number of registered vulnerabilities grew again. In this report, we examine statistics on published vulnerabilities and exploits, the most common security issues impacting Windows and Linux, and the vulnerabilities being leveraged in APT attacks thatRead More »Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q3 2025

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