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WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user role during registration. It affects versions from 24.12.92

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MS Teams Guest Access Can Remove Defender Protection When Users Join External Tenants

MS Teams Guest Access Can Remove Defender Protection When Users Join External Tenants

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections via the guest access feature in Teams. “When users operate as guests in another tenant, their protections are determined entirely by that hosting environment, not by their home organization,” Ontinue security researcher Rhys Downing said in a report.

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Bloody Wolf Expands Java-based NetSupport RAT Attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Bloody Wolf Expands Java-based NetSupport RAT Attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been attributed to a cyber attack campaign that has targeted Kyrgyzstan since at least June 2025 with the goal of delivering NetSupport RAT. As of October 2025, the activity has expanded to also single out Uzbekistan, Group-IB researchers Amirbek Kurbanov and Volen Kayo said in a report published in

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Microsoft to Block Unauthorized Scripts in Entra ID Logins with 2026 CSP Update

Microsoft to Block Unauthorized Scripts in Entra ID Logins with 2026 CSP Update

Microsoft has announced plans to improve the security of Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks starting a year from now. The update to its Content Security Policy (CSP) aims to enhance the Entra ID sign-in experience at “login.microsoftonline[.]com” by only letting scripts from trusted Microsoft domains run. “This update strengthens security and

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