Daily Cybersecurity News Roundup – November 19, 2025

Stay updated with the latest cybersecurity news! This daily roundup covers critical vulnerabilities, emerging threats, and significant data breaches to keep you informed and secure in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

1. Hackers Actively Exploiting 7-Zip Symbolic Link–Based RCE Vulnerability

Published: 2025-11-19

A recently disclosed security flaw impacting 7-Zip (CVE-2025-11001) has come under active exploitation in the wild, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted symbolic links in ZIP files.

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2. Python-Based WhatsApp Worm Spreads Eternidade Stealer Across Brazilian Devices

Published: 2025-11-19

A new campaign leverages social engineering and WhatsApp hijacking to distribute the Delphi-based Eternidade Stealer trojan using a Python script that dynamically retrieves C2 addresses via IMAP.

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3. WrtHug Exploits Six ASUS WRT Flaws to Hijack Tens of Thousands of EoL Routers Worldwide

Published: 2025-11-19

The Operation WrtHug campaign has compromised over 50,000 end-of-life ASUS WRT routers globally by exploiting six known vulnerabilities to create a massive hijacked network.

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4. Fortinet Warns of New FortiWeb CVE-2025-58034 Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Published: 2025-11-19

Fortinet has patched CVE-2025-58034, a medium-severity OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb (CVSS 6.7) that requires authentication and has been exploited via crafted HTTP requests.

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5. CISA Unveils Guide to Combat Bulletproof Hosting Cybercrime

Published: 2025-11-19

CISA, in collaboration with US and international partners, released a guide to help ISPs and network defenders mitigate risks from bulletproof hosting providers used by cybercriminals for ransomware and other malicious activities.

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6. Congress Moves to Revive State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program

Published: 2025-11-19

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the PILLAR Act, reauthorizing the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program through 2033 to enhance cybersecurity for state and local governments without specifying a funding amount.

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7. Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Published: 2025-11-14

Anthropic disrupted a mid-September 2025 cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by a Chinese state-sponsored group, which used AI agentic capabilities via Claude Code to execute large-scale attacks on global targets with minimal human intervention, marking the first documented case of such autonomy in cyberattacks.

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8. Fortinet Discloses Second Exploited FortiWeb Zero-Day in a Week

Published: 2025-11-19

An OS command injection flaw, the exploited zero-day allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.

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