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appknox

How modified APKs disguise themselves as your app across third-party stores

Dec 31, 2025 By Rucha Wele In Appknox
Attackers don’t need to breach your infrastructure to harm your users. They don’t need source code access, credentials, or backend vulnerabilities. They just need your public APK. Once your app is publicly available, attackers can download it, decompile it, inject malicious code, repackage it, and redistribute it through third-party app stores and unofficial marketplaces.
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appknox

Brand Abuse in App Stores: Why Fake Apps Keep Winning & What Security Teams Miss

Dec 31, 2025 By Rucha Wele In Appknox
Brand abuse in app stores is no longer opportunistic. It has become repeatable, scalable, and persistent. Attackers do not publish one fake app and disappear. They operate in cycles. A fake app is uploaded, value is extracted, a takedown occurs, and a near-identical version reappears under a new developer identity. This loop runs continuously across regions, marketplaces, and distribution channels. For security teams, this changes the mandate.
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foresiet

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): How to Fix the Critical MongoDB Memory Leak

Dec 31, 2025 By foresiet In Foresiet
CVE-2025-14847, nicknamed MongoBleed, is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5–8.7) unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in MongoDB Server. It allows remote attackers to leak uninitialized heap memory containing sensitive data—such as credentials, API keys, session tokens, and PII—without authentication. Exploitation occurs pre-authentication via malformed zlib-compressed network packets on port 27017.
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graylog

6 Steps for Using a SIEM to Detect Threats

Dec 31, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Most people know the old fairy tale of the boy who cried wolf. Every day, the little shepherd would scream from the top of his hill, “A wolf is chasing the sheep!” While villagers initially responded to the alarm, they soon realized that the boy was lying to them. In the end, when a wolf truly did chase the sheep, no one heeded the boy’s cry.
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indusface

Managed Bot Protection for Education Institutions: Prevent Credential Abuse and Downtime

Dec 31, 2025 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
This growing exposure is reflected in real-world threat data. The Huntress 2025 Cyber Threat Report found that the education sector accounted for 21% of all cyber incidents observed last year, underscoring how frequently schools and universities are targeted. The report also highlights a strong presence of automated and data-driven attacks, with malicious scripts making up 24% of education-focused threats, followed by infostealers (16%), malware (13%), and ransomware (7%).
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indusface

How Managed DDoS Protection Keeps Education and EdTech Platforms Resilient

Dec 31, 2025 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
Globally, schools and universities now face over 4,300 cyberattacks per week on average, marking a 40% year-over-year increase and making the education sector a prime target for disruptive DDoS attacks. Most educational institutions operate with lean IT teams responsible for infrastructure, user support, and security. This resource constraint makes it difficult to withstand prolonged or application-layer DDoS attacks that can quickly disrupt learning platforms and administrative systems.
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indusface

Managed DDoS Protection for Insurance: Why Always-On Defense Is Essential

Dec 31, 2025 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
According to the State of Application Security 2025, web applications faced a sharp rise in hostile traffic, with 4.8 billion attacks blocked and 1.52 billion DDoS incidents affecting nearly 70% of monitored applications. APIs became the primary target, seeing 388% more DDoS attacks per host than websites, signaling a shift toward precision, application-layer disruption.
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Digital Security Risks During Separation or Divorce: Protecting Your Privacy When Relationships Break Down

Digital Security Risks During Separation or Divorce: Protecting Your Privacy When Relationships Break Down

Dec 31, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
During separation or divorce, the breakdown of a relationship often brings unexpected digital risks alongside emotional and financial challenges. Many couples spend years sharing passwords, devices, and online accounts without a second thought. However, when trust erodes, this shared digital access can quickly turn into a serious cybersecurity and privacy concern. Understanding how digital exposure happens and how to manage it responsibly is becoming an essential part of modern family disputes.
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From Startup to Scale-Up: Why Indian Businesses Are Moving to Advance Servers

From Startup to Scale-Up: Why Indian Businesses Are Moving to Advance Servers

Dec 31, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The startup world in India is withering like never before. Founders are dreaming bigger, shipping faster and building fast, whether it is a two-person SaaS team in Bengaluru or a fintech disruptor in Mumbai. However, it is between the fun of traction and the mayhem of scale that reality kicks in, your infrastructure begins to groan. What starts as a basic server to host startups in India may not be able to sustain in case of the incoming real users. Page loads slow down. Security questions pop up. Periods of downtime is not merely an inconvenient thing anymore but it is also a business risk.
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ThreatQuotient

How Threat Intelligence Builds Shared Responsibility in Cybersecurity

Dec 30, 2025 By ThreatQuotient In ThreatQuotient
Recent high-profile incidents, such as attacks in the retail sector or the closure of KNP following a devastating breach, have pushed cybersecurity onto the boardroom agenda. However, as it rises in visibility, a fundamental misunderstanding persists about how protection works. Responsibility for security is frequently concentrated on a few individuals.
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