Weekly Cyber Security News 19/06/2025

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break!

<sigh> Have some people not learnt hardcoded passwords are bad?

• Sitecore CMS exploit chain starts with hardcoded “b” password

Patch time folks!

• New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros

Oh dear. Inventive but the old ‘need to download a patch’ to make something works should smell very bad:

• North Korean hackers deepfake execs in Zoom call to spread Mac malware