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]