Cybersecurity News Bytes

Intensified Cyber Operations Target Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure Chinese state-aligned threat actors have significantly escalated intrusion attempts against Taiwan’s critical infrastructure, conducting millions of daily probes and targeted campaigns against energy,…

Proof-of-Concept Exploit Released for Trend Micro Apex Central Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-69258) A publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2025-69258, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Trend Micro…

Trend Micro Apex Central Unauthenticated RCE Exploit PoC Raises Urgent Patch Management Concerns A publicly available proof-of-concept exploit for a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Trend Micro Apex…

Ransomware Attack on Texas Fuel Retail Network Exposes 377,000 Customer Records A large fuel retail and convenience chain in Texas has disclosed a ransomware incident that resulted in the exposure…

Critical Cisco ISE Vulnerability With Public Exploit Spurs Emergency Patching A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), now accompanied by publicly available proof‑of‑concept exploit code, has…

Critical Cisco ISE Vulnerability With Public Exploit Raises Immediate Enterprise Risk A recently disclosed vulnerability in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), combined with the public release of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit…

New WhatsApp Trojan Targets Android Users With Stealthy Data Theft And Account Takeover A new Android-focused WhatsApp trojan has emerged in the wild, combining advanced social engineering with modular spyware…

Autonomous AI Agents Introduce New Application Security Risks The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents in software development and operations is creating a new, hard‑to‑govern attack surface that cuts across…

FBI Warns of North Korean Spear‑Phishing Campaigns Using Malicious QR Codes A newly disclosed FBI advisory describes an ongoing North Korean spear‑phishing operation that embeds malicious QR codes in highly…

ShadowLeak: Zero‑Click Data Exfiltration via ChatGPT Connectors ShadowLeak is a newly disclosed zero‑click exploitation technique against ChatGPT’s connector ecosystem that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data directly from cloud‑connected services…