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Web News Analysis Researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have unveiled a critical security flaw in WhatsApp’s contact discovery feature, which allowed them to enumerate and scrape the account details of an astounding 3.5 billion users—effectively the entire global user base of the platform. This makes it ...

Public Breach Analysis Google has issued an emergency security update for the billions of users of its Chrome browser on desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux) to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that is currently under active attack. The company confirmed on Monday, November 17, 2025, that “an exploit for CVE-2025-13223 exists ...

Dark Web News Analysis The Everest ransomware group has added a new listing to their dark web leak site, claiming to hold 176 GB of sensitive seismic survey data involving Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned multinational energy corporation, and SAExploration, a seismic data acquisition company. This claim, observed on November 17, 2025, ...

Web News Analysis A widespread outage at Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, disrupted access to numerous high-profile websites and services on November 18, 2025, causing intermittent failures across the global web. This incident is a stark reminder of the internet’s dependency on a few key players. Timeline & Root ...

Web News Analysis Microsoft has disclosed the mitigation of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded in the cloud. The attack, which occurred on October 24, 2025, targeted a single Azure customer endpoint in Australia, peaking at a staggering 15.72 Terabits per second (Tbps) and 3.64 billion packets per ...

Dark Web News Analysis A threat actor on a known dark web forum is advertising the sale of a dataset allegedly containing 12.3 million customer email records from Robinhood Markets. The seller is asking for 10 Bitcoin (approx. $900k – $1M USD depending on current rates, though the prompt says ...

Dark Web News Analysis A threat actor using the alias “yeestge33” on a known cybercrime forum is advertising the sale of a database containing approximately 140,000 individual records from the Japan Financial Investment Education Association (JFIEA). This claim, if true, represents a significant data breach targeting Japan’s educational and non-profit ...

Dark Web News Analysis A detailed technical analysis released on November 17, 2025, by malware researchers (0x0d4y) has exposed the inner workings of ScoringMathTea, the flagship Remote Access Trojan (RAT) used in the Lazarus Group’s new “Gotta Fly” campaign. This campaign, first identified by ESET in October 2025, targets Unmanned ...

Public Breach Analysis The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has officially confirmed that the crippling ransomware attack it suffered in August 2025 resulted in a significant data breach, with attackers stealing files containing personal and medical information. This is not an isolated incident. My analysis confirms this was ...