Network Security
The latest Network Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Russian Hackers Weaponize 7-Year-Old Cisco Smart Install Bug for Stealthy Network Spying
An urgent FBI advisory and new research from Cisco Talos confirm that Russian state‑sponsored hackers have spent years quietly breaching enterprise networks through a critical vulnerability in...
Microsoft Flags Critical Race Condition RCE in Windows Storage—Patch Immediately
Microsoft has issued a critical security advisory for CVE-2025-55231, a race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows storage management stack that could allow remote code execution. The flaw,...
Microsoft Fixes CVE-2025-55229 Certificate Spoofing Bug Threatening TLS, VPNs, and Code Signing
Microsoft this week disclosed CVE-2025-55229, a high-impact spoofing vulnerability in Windows certificate handling that allows attackers to bypass signature verification over a network. The flaw,...
CVE-2025-53763: Microsoft Flags Azure Databricks Privilege Escalation Flaw, Urges Immediate Defensive Actions
Microsoft has disclosed a new privilege escalation vulnerability in Azure Databricks, tracked as CVE-2025-53763, which could allow an attacker with network access to elevate their privileges within...
Cisco Rushes Patch for Critical 10.0 Bug Exposing Firewall Managers to Pre-Auth Shell Attacks
Cisco released an emergency software update Thursday for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to seize full control of Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)...
Siemens CROSSBOW SAC Emergency Patch: Critical SQLite Flaws Enable Remote Code Execution
Siemens has released emergency patches for its RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW Station Access Controller (SAC) after security researchers uncovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the SQLite database engine...
Siemens Patches Critical Remote Exploits in SINEC Management Suite and Embedded OS, Urging Immediate ICS Updates
Siemens has delivered patches for a cascade of high-severity vulnerabilities across its SINEC network management system and embedded operating system, fixing flaws that could allow attackers to...
Siemens SINEC OS Advisory Exposes Over 100 Third-Party Kernel Flaws, Shifts Patch Burden to ProductCERT
Siemens has released a sprawling security advisory covering third-party components inside its SINEC operating system, cataloguing more than a hundred Linux kernel and userland vulnerabilities that...
CISA, NSA, FBI Release Guidance for OT Asset Inventories to Fortify Critical Infrastructure
On August 13, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined forces with the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental...
Active SharePoint RCE Exploits Chain Deserialization Bug to Deploy Web Shells and Ransomware
Attackers are actively chaining a deserialization vulnerability in on-premises SharePoint Server with an authentication bypass to gain remote code execution without credentials—then stealing the...
Microsoft's CVE-2025-53793 Advisory: Azure Stack Hub Authentication Flaw Exposes Sensitive Data
Microsoft has published an urgent security advisory for CVE-2025-53793, an improper authentication vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that could allow unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive...
Windows Admins: CVE-2025-53778 Is a Patch-Now NTLM Privilege Escalation That Threatens Entire Domains
Microsoft has silently added CVE-2025-53778 to its Security Update Guide, flagging a improper authentication flaw in the Windows NTLM implementation that permits an authorized attacker to elevate...