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Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2025-12-19 02:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2025-12-19 02:00 PST

  • FTC: Instacart to refund $60M over deceptive subscription tactics
    BleepingComputer • 2025-12-19 01:19 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/instacart-to-refund-60m-over-deceptive-subscription-tactics/
  • New UEFI Flaw Enables Early-Boot DMA Attacks on ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI Motherboards
    The Hacker News • 2025-12-19 00:25 • thehackernews.com
    Certain motherboard models from vendors like ASRock, ASUSTeK Computer, GIGABYTE, and MSI are affected by a security vulnerability that leaves them susceptible to early-boot direct memory access (DMA) attacks across architectures that implement a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and input–output memory management unit (IOMMU).
    UEFI and IOMMU are designed to enforce a security
    https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/new-uefi-flaw-enables-early-boot-dma.html
  • Yet another DCOM object for lateral movement
    Securelist • 2025-12-19 00:00 • securelist.com
    Kaspersky expert describes how DCOM interfaces can be abused to load malicious DLLs into memory using the Windows Registry and Control Panel.
    https://securelist.com/lateral-movement-via-dcom-abusing-control-panel/118232/

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

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