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iframe Security Exposed: The Blind Spot Fueling Payment Skimmer Attacks

iframe Security Exposed: The Blind Spot Fueling Payment Skimmer Attacks

Sep 24, 2025 Payment Security / Web Security
Think payment iframes are secure by design? Think again. Sophisticated attackers have quietly evolved malicious overlay techniques to exploit checkout pages and steal credit card data by bypassing the very security policies designed to stop them. Download the complete iframe security guide here .  TL;DR: iframe Security Exposed Payment iframes are being actively exploited by attackers using malicious overlays to skim credit card data. These pixel-perfect fake forms bypass traditional security, as proven by a recent Stripe campaign that has already compromised dozens of merchants. This article explores: Anatomy of the 2024 Stripe skimmer attack. Why old defenses like CSP and X-Frame-Options are failing. Modern attack vectors: overlays, postMessage spoofing, and CSS exfiltration. How third-party scripts in payment iframes create new risks. How the new PCI DSS 4.0.1 rules are forcing merchants to secure the entire page. A six-step defense strategy focusing on real-time mon...
Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to Target AWS IMDS and Steal EC2 IAM Credentials

Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to Target AWS IMDS and Steal EC2 IAM Credentials

Sep 24, 2025 Vulnerability / Cloud Security
Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-51591 (CVSS score: 6.5), which refers to a case of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows attackers to compromise a target system by injecting a specially crafted HTML iframe element. The EC2 IMDS is a crucial component of the AWS cloud environment, offering information about running instances, as well as temporary, short-lived credentials if an identity and access management (IAM) role is associated with the instance. The instance metadata is accessible to any application running on an EC2 instance via a link-local address (169.254.169[.]254). These credentials can then be used to securely interact with other AWS services like S3, RDS, or DynamoDB, permitting applications to authenticate without...
State-Sponsored Hackers Exploiting Libraesva Email Security Gateway Vulnerability

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploiting Libraesva Email Security Gateway Vulnerability

Sep 24, 2025 Vulnerability / Email Security
Libraesva has released a security update to address a vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) solution that it said has been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689 , carries a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating medium severity. "Libraesva ESG is affected by a command injection flaw that can be triggered by a malicious email containing a specially crafted compressed attachment, allowing potential execution of arbitrary commands as a non-privileged user," Libraesva said in an advisory. "This occurs due to an improper sanitization during the removal of active code from files contained in some compressed archive formats." In a hypothetical attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the flaw by sending an email containing a specially crafted compressed archive, allowing a threat actor to leverage the application's improper sanitization logic to ultimately execute arbitrary shell commands. The shortcoming ...
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Shadow AI Agents Are Multiplying. Here's How to Find and Secure Them

websiteNudge SecuritySaaS Security / AI Security
Learn how eight common discovery approaches work, what they find, and what they don’t.
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Gartner: 70% of SOCs Will Pilot AI Agents. Only 15% Will See Results

websiteProphet SecurityAI SOC / Cybersecurity
Here are Gartner’s key questions to ask when pressure-testing AI SOC vendors in production.
Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security

Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security

Sep 23, 2025 Firmware Security / Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image. The medium-severity vulnerabilities , both of which stem from improper verification of a cryptographic signature, are listed below - CVE-2025-7937 (CVSS score: 6.6) - A crafted firmware image can bypass the Supermicro BMC firmware verification logic of Root of Trust ( RoT ) 1.0 to update the system firmware by redirecting the program to a fake "fwmap" table in the unsigned region CVE-2025-6198 (CVSS score: 6.4) - A crafted firmware image can bypass the Supermicro BMC firmware verification logic of the Signing Table to update the system firmware by redirecting the program to a fake signing table ("sig_table") in the unsigned region The image validation process carried out during a fi...
Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Sep 23, 2025 Financial Crime / Cryptocurrency
Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an "elaborate" online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million ($118 million) from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust , the coordinated action saw searches in five places across Spain and Portugal, as well as in Italy, Romania and Bulgaria. Bank accounts and other financial assets associated with the cybercrime ring were frozen. The main perpetrator behind the operation has been accused of large-scale fraud and money laundering by running an online investment platform for several years, tricking unsuspecting individuals into parting with their funds by promising them high returns on investments in various cryptocurrencies. Once the deposits were made, the funds were transferred to bank accounts in Lithuania to launder them. Victims who attempted to withdraw their assets from the platform were asked to pay additional fees, after wh...
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