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Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2025-12-15 12:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2025-12-15 12:00 PST

  • Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error
    BleepingComputer • 2025-12-15 10:20 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Users accessing the SoundCloud audio streaming platform through a virtual private network (VPN) connection are denied access to the service and see a 403 ‘forbidden’ error. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ongoing-soundcloud-issue-blocks-vpn-users-with-403-server-error/
  • Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
    The Hacker News • 2025-12-15 09:46 • thehackernews.com
    A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity.
    The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome
    https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/featured-chrome-browser-extension.html
  • 700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers
    BleepingComputer • 2025-12-15 08:49 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    700Credit, a U.S.-based financial services and fintech company, will start notifying more than 5.8 million people that their personal information has been exposed in a data breach incident. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/700credit-data-breach-impacts-58-million-vehicle-dealership-customers/
  • 2025’s Top Phishing Trends and What They Mean for Your Security Strategy
    BleepingComputer • 2025-12-15 07:05 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Phishing attacks in 2025 increasingly moved beyond email, with attackers using social platforms, search ads, and browser-based techniques to bypass MFA and steal sessions. Push Security outlines key phishing trends and what security teams must know as identity-based attacks continue to evolve in 2026. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/2025s-top-phishing-trends-and-what-they-mean-for-your-security-strategy/
  • Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break VPN access for WSL users
    BleepingComputer • 2025-12-15 06:34 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Microsoft says that recent Windows 11 security updates are causing VPN networking failures for enterprise users running Windows Subsystem for Linux. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-recent-windows-updates-cause-wsl-networking-issues/
  • FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE
    The Hacker News • 2025-12-15 06:32 • thehackernews.com
    Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations.
    The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below –

    CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Numerous
    https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/freepbx-authentication-bypass-exposed.html

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.

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