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December 11, 2025

Ransomware attack hits Inotiv, big pharma research firm fined millions for animal cruelty - Cybernews (August 20, 2025)
Chrome High-Severity Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code - Cybersecurity News (August 20, 2025)
Oregon man charged with administering "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire Botnet - U.S. Department of Justice (August 19, 2025)
Justice Department Announces Seizure of Over $2.8 Million in Cryptocurrency, Cash, and other Assets - U.S. Department of Justice (August 14, 2025)
Lenovo's Lena AI chatbot had weakness that let attackers hijack sessions - BetaNews (August 18, 2025)
Hidden Links: Analyzing Secret Families of VPN Apps - The Citizen Lab (August 19, 2025)
Manufacturing remains prime ransomware target in Q2 as new groups, state-aligned actors reshape industrial threat landscape - Industrial Cyber (August 18, 2025)
Pharma firm Inotiv says ransomware attack impacted operations - BleepingComputer (August 19, 2025)
DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks - The Hacker News (August 20, 2025)
Decoding The Chrome CVE‑2025‑9132 V8 Vulnerability - The Cyber Express (August 20, 2025)
New Research Links VPN Apps, Highlights Security Deficiencies - SecurityWeek (August 19, 2025)
Lenovo AI Chatbot Flaw Allows Remote Script Execution on Corporate Systems - GBHackers (August 20, 2025)
US Seizes $2.8 Million From Zeppelin Ransomware Operator - SecurityWeek (August 18, 2025)

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