Infosecurity Magazine reports that 40 million Log4j instances, or 13% of all installations this year, remained susceptible to the maximum severity Log4Shell vulnerability four years after its emergence.
Ongoing attacks leveraging the high-severity WinRAR path traversal flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-6218, have prompted its inclusion in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, reports The Hacker News.
Nearly 4.3 billion records seemingly gathered within the past two years have been inadvertently leaked by an unsecured MongoDB database, reports Cybernews.
Attacks exploiting the maximum severity React2Shell vulnerability in React Server Components, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, have enabled the deployment of several newly emergent malware payloads and cryptocurrency miners, according to The Hacker News.
Microsoft released security fixes for 57 issues in its software, including an actively exploited 7.8-rated zero-day in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver, as part of this month's Patch Tuesday, reports The Register.
Threat actors have been actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Sneeit Framework plugin for WordPress, tracked as CVE-2025-6389, and a critical ICTBroadcast flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-2611, in separate attacks, according to The Hacker News.
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