By Guru Baran
Publication Date: 2025-12-21 14:23:00
In a week that revealed the flaws in digital trust, cybersecurity headlines were filled with high-profile breaches, zero-day exploits, and bold nation-state espionage.
Attackers claimed to have swiped usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords from over 1.2 million accounts, underscoring the persistent risks of adult platforms as lucrative targets for credential stuffing and phishing campaigns. As investigators scramble, this incident reignites debates on third-party risk management and the adequacy of legacy encryption in high-traffic sites.
Meanwhile, Cisco sounded alarms over a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-20393) in its IOS XE software, actively exploited in the wild by APT actors. Dubbed “Storm-1252,” the flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution on enterprise routers, potentially compromising global networks.
Cisco’s emergency patches arrived just in time, but early reports indicate infections across North America…
