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Infosec bits for 2025 week 26

Anele Siwela | June 27, 2025, 5:09 p.m.

Cybersecurity News:

  • The human factor in cybersecurity – the gap between policy and practice [LDN Guest Post, London Daily News]
  • Geopolitics, Quantum Risk, and AI Attacks: Why Cybersecurity Is Being Rewritten [USA News Group, PR Newswire]
  • MOVEit Transfer Faces Increased Threats as Scanning Surges and CVE Flaws Are Targeted [Ravie Lakshmanan, The Hacker News]
  • China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global data security [Eric Ralls, Earth.com]
  • Malware:

  • OneClik Malware Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors [Ravie Lakshmanan, The Hacker News]
  • Dangerous new malware can scan photos on both Android and iOS devices, report says [Chance Townsend, Mashable]
  • WinRAR patches bug letting malware launch from extracted archives [Bill Toulas, Bleeping computer]
  • Ransomware:

  • Fewer ransomware attacks encrypting data, report finds [Eric Geller, Cybersecurity Dive]
  • Fog Ransomware Group Uses Unconventional Toolset, New Research Finds [Jordyn Alger, Security Magazine]
  • Vulnerabilities & Patches:

  • Notepad++ Vulnerability Let Attacker Gain Complete System Control – PoC Released [Guru Baran, Cybersecurity News]
  • How to protect yourself after the 16-billion-password data breach of Google, Apple and Facebook [Janet Nguyen, Marketplace]
  • Apache fixes remote code execution bypass in Tomcat web server [Bill Toulas, Bleeping computer]
  • Code Execution Flaws Haunt Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Commerce [Ryan Naraine, Security Week]