Cristian Luțic
Cristian Luțic is a cybersecurity professional and Editor-in-Chief of iSec.News, with experience in security enablement, risk analysis, and vulnerability reporting. As Editor-in-Chief, he is responsible for editorial standards, source verification, and publication oversight at iSec News.
From professional sports to cybersecurity, his career path may have been unconventional, but it has been driven by the same core values: discipline, perseverance, and a passion for doing meaningful, impactful work.
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Analysis says Unitree G1 humanoid robot can be used for espionage and cyber attacks
Alias Robotics says its analysis found Unitree G1 humanoid robots can be taken over via a Bluetooth provisioning flaw, use weak, shared encryption for configuration files, and continuously transmit sensor and telemetry data to servers in China, creating risks for covert surveillance and network attacks.
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Phishing campaign lures LastPass and Bitwarden users to install remote-access tools
A phishing campaign impersonating LastPass and Bitwarden is distributing a binary that installs the Syncro RMM agent and deploys ScreenConnect for remote access, researchers reported; LastPass says it was not breached and users are advised to ignore unsolicited alerts and verify notices on official channels.
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MANGO notifies customers after marketing vendor data breach
Spanish retailer MANGO said on Oct. 14, 2025 that an external marketing service suffered unauthorized access exposing first name, country, postal code, email and telephone numbers; MANGO said last names, payment data and IDs were not compromised and its IT systems were unaffected.
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UK regulator fines Capita £14m over 2023 cyberattack that exposed 6.6m people
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita £14 million after a 2023 cyberattack exposed data on about 6.6 million people; the ICO said failures in detection and privileged account controls allowed attackers to exfiltrate roughly 1 TB and deploy ransomware.
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Researchers disclose two CVSS 10.0 flaws in Red Lion Sixnet RTUs
Security researchers have disclosed two CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40151 and CVE-2023-42770) in Red Lion Sixnet RTUs that can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as root; vendors and agencies advise patching, enabling authentication and blocking TCP access.
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Critical ICTBroadcast flaw (CVE-2025-2611) exploited to deploy reverse shells
A critical input-validation flaw in ICTBroadcast (CVE-2025-2611, CVSS 9.3) allows unauthenticated command injection via a session cookie; researchers including VulnCheck say the bug is being exploited to run reverse shells on exposed servers, and no patch information is currently available.
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U.S. seizes $15 billion in Bitcoin, sanctions Southeast Asia cybercrime network tied to alleged Cambodian leader
U.S. authorities announced the seizure of 127,271 Bitcoin (about $15 billion) tied to Chen Zhi and unsealed an indictment alleging he ran the Prince Group, a Cambodia-based network of scam compounds linked to human trafficking and global fraud; coordinated U.S. and U.K. sanctions targeted people, businesses and the Huione Group.
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ReliaQuest: Chinese-linked group converted ArcGIS server into long-term backdoor
ReliaQuest reported that a state-linked group known as Flax Typhoon modified an ArcGIS Java extension into a web shell, implanted it in backups and used it to run discovery, deploy a SoftEther-based VPN bridge and maintain access for over a year.
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AMD issues fixes for ‘RMPocalypse’ flaw that can break SEV‑SNP protections
AMD has released fixes for a vulnerability termed RMPocalypse that researchers say can let a malicious hypervisor corrupt the Reverse Map Paging table during initialization and defeat SEV‑SNP protections; AMD has assigned CVE‑2025‑0033 and lists affected EPYC processors.
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Researchers describe “Pixnapping” Android side‑channel that can steal 2FA codes
A team of academic researchers disclosed “Pixnapping,” a side‑channel pixel‑stealing technique that can recover on‑screen data including two‑factor codes on Android by exploiting rendering APIs and graphical operations, and Google has issued patches under CVE‑2025‑48561 while some issues remain unpatched.
