"Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet - it's becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms are turning into attack vectors. The result is a global system where every digital weakness can be turned into physical harm, economic loss, or political leverage."
""Security vulnerabilities can persist undetected for years, often resurfacing due to incomplete fixes," Check Point said. "A particular information disclosure vulnerability, despite being formally addressed with a security patch, remained active for years due to the original issue receiving only a partial fix. This example underscores a basic conundrum for researchers: introducing a vulnerability is often easy, fixing it can be difficult, and verifying that a fix is both thorough and effective is even more challenging.""
Cybercrime increasingly causes real-world harm by funding organized crime, enabling rented violence, and turning trusted apps and social platforms into attack vectors. Three Windows GDI vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-30388, CVE-2025-53766, CVE-2025-47984) allowed out-of-bounds memory access via malformed EMF and EMF+ records, enabling remote code execution and information disclosure in gdiplus.dll and gdi32full.dll. Microsoft issued patches during Patch Tuesday in May, July, and August 2025, updating gdiplus.dll and gdi32full.dll to specific versions. Partial fixes and long-lived disclosure bugs demonstrate the difficulty of fully remediating and validating security patches.
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