All posts by John Doe

■■■□□ Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven Researchers disclosing their findings said, ‘It’s as bad as it sounds’. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/commvault_bug_chains_patched/

■□□□□ China’s Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour, severing connection to the outside world — with no hint as to its intention. On August 20, 2025, China’s Great Firewall (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/chinas-great-firewall-blocked-all-traffic-to-a-common-https-port-for-over-an-hour-with-no-hint-as-to-its-intention

■■□□□ Copilot Vulnerability Breaks Audit Logs and Access Files Secretly for Hackers. Copilot Vulnerability Breaks Audit Logs and Access Files Secretly for Hackers

■■■□□ 📹 DeepSeek-V3.1 is online. 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes ⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and multi-step agent tasks.

■■■□□ Cyprus Public Transport DoS’d by DieNet hacktivist. In their message (reworded): “Cyprus has always been Israel’s backyard. DieNet does not agree with Cyprus’ vile policies. We know that your small country will never withstand our attacks. We did not want to bully you, but you continued to commit foolish acts for two years.” https://check-host.net/check-report/2c2c3ecdk152

■■■□□ DieNet hacktivist group specialising in Denial of Service and Defacement of websites claimed another victim. Their message verbatim: The official Canadian Parliament website has been successfully taken down, as part of our ongoing operations against those who support murder and corruption, and within the framework of the legitimate right to protest against injustice. ~DieNet…

■■■□□ Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/elastic-rejects-claims-of-a-zero-day-rce-flaw-in-defend-edr/

■■■□□ 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Telecoms firm takes systems offline after cyber attack The Warlock ransomware group said it was selling a million stolen documents. https://www.itpro.com/security/cyber-attacks/uk-telecoms-firm-takes-systems-offline-after-cyber-attack

■■□□□ Telecommunications giant Etisalat (new name E&) may have been breached as the threat actor reports admin panel access. The actor has a positive reputation and is selling access over a Russian hacking forum; exploit.in. Originally posted on June 29, 2025. The actor claims to perform SIM swap.

■■□□□ Electronic Warfare / Friendly Fire: Ukraine’s EW fight against Russian drones is so chaotic that its own are getting caught in the crossfire. https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-can-jam-own-drones-many-some-russian-share-signals-2025-8