Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaqu n “El Chapo” Guzm n. The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Jo
Published: 2025-06-30T19:57:49
AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm. Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complet
Published: 2025-06-26T22:52:42
Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll. Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a chang
Published: 2025-06-25T19:39:19
Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025. Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severi
Published: 2025-06-23T19:21:42
AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that's designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly common in recent […] 
AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number tra...
Published: 2025-07-01T12:36:28
Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric Face Check scan to confirm their face matches their profile photos for the dating service, Axios reported on Monday. The Face Check […] 
Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric “Face Check” scan to confirm their fac...
Published: 2025-07-01T05:10:31
Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July […] 
Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you’ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password managemen...
Published: 2025-06-30T14:33:25
Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one of which cannot be fixed by patching the firmware, were discovered in 689 kinds of Brother home and enterprise printers by security company Rapid7. The […] 
Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one of which cannot be fixed by patching the firmw...
Published: 2025-06-30T06:20:23
Our water, health, and energy systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. Now, when tensions escalate - like when the US bombed nuclear facilities in Iran this month - the safety of these systems becomes of paramount concern. If conflict erup
Published: 2025-06-27T18:31:35
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that's about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The […] 
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it...
Published: 2025-06-26T11:46:42
Four members of the REvil ransomware group have been released from custody despite pleading guilty to fraud and malware distribution charges. The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg allowed Roman Muromsky, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, and Dmitry Korotaev to walk free after sentencing them to five years in prison on Monday, ruling that the gang members […] 
Four members of the REvil ransomware group have been released from custody despite pleading guilty to fraud and malware distribution charges. The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg allowed Roman Muromsky, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, and D...
Published: 2025-06-25T09:10:23
Earlier this month, Microsoft's Family Safety feature, primarily used by parents and schools as a set of parental controls and filters, started randomly blocking Google's Chrome browser from opening on Windows. The first reports surfaced on June 3rd, with some Chrome users noticing the browser kept closing or wouldn t open. Microsoft has introduced a bug […] 
Earlier this month, Microsoft’s Family Safety feature, primarily used by parents and schools as a set of parental controls and filters, started randomly blocking Google’s Chrome browser from opening on Windows. The first reports surfaced on June 3r...
Published: 2025-06-20T10:00:04
An ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a SafePay ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of internal systems, BleepingComputer has learned. [...]
Published: 2025-07-05T11:58:49
A hacker is threatening to leak 106GB of data allegedly stolen from Spanish telecommunications company Telef nica in a breach that the company did not acknowledge. [...]
Published: 2025-07-04T11:11:26
Grafana Labs has addressed four Chromium vulnerabilities in critical security updates for the Grafana Image Renderer plugin and Synthetic Monitoring Agent. [...]
Published: 2025-07-03T12:16:59
IdeaLab is notifying individuals impacted by a data breach incident last October when hackers accessed sensitive information. [...]
Published: 2025-07-03T11:14:56
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was report... 
Published: 2025-06-30T17:33:59
Studio Trigger returns to Night City with a standalone sequel to 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' that promises to hurt as much as the original.... 
Published: 2025-07-05T14:30:33
Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.
Published: 2025-07-05T12:43:06
Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2.
Published: 2025-07-03T16:00:08
The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it Young Consulting's cybersecurity woes continue after the number of affected individuals from last year's suspected ransomware raid passed the 1 million mark.
Published: 2025-07-03T14:31:13
'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then? Meta has come out swinging following the European Commission's decision that its pay-or-consent model falls foul of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Published: 2025-07-03T12:42:36
Don't let their kind words sway you leaders are still up to no good Ransomware gang Hunters International has shut up shop and offered decryption keys to all victims as a parting favor.
Published: 2025-07-03T11:23:14
You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority (CA) known for its free TLS/SSL certificates, has begun issuing digital certificates for IP addresses.
Published: 2025-07-03T07:34:06
Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray AI-powered chatbots often deliver incorrect information when asked to name the address for major companies websites, and threat intelligence business Netcraft thinks that creates an opportunity for criminals.
Published: 2025-07-03T06:30:09
The second max score this week for Netzilla - not a good look If you're running the Engineering-Special (ES) builds of Cisco Unified Communications Manager or its Session Management Edition, you need to apply Cisco's urgent patch after someone at Switchzilla made a big mistake.
Published: 2025-07-02T22:33:41
Two flaws in TeleMessage are 'frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors' The US security watchdog CISA has warned that malicious actors are actively exploiting two flaws in the Signal clone TeleMessage TM SGNL, and has directed federal agencies to patch the flaws or discontinue use of the app by July 22.
Published: 2025-07-02T20:47:30
Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter The medical research nonprofit vying to buy 23andMe is informing existing customers that it plans to complete the deal on July 8.
Published: 2025-07-02T17:32:06
Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks The US Treasury has sanctioned Aeza Group, a Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider, and four of its cronies for enabling ransomware and other cybercriminal activity.
Published: 2025-07-02T12:35:12
Experts say they don't expect the MOVEit menace to do much about it Security experts have uncovered a hole in Cl0p's data exfiltration tool that could potentially leave the cybercrime group vulnerable to attack.
Published: 2025-07-02T09:38:10
It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885 Cyberattacks and undersea cable sabotage are blurring the line between war and peace and exposing holes in UK law, a government minister has warned lawmakers.
Published: 2025-07-02T08:30:07
Frequent flyers info takes flight Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen.
Published: 2025-07-02T01:34:50
Customizations not saved with security baseline policy update Microsoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations.
Published: 2025-07-01T19:02:21
Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.
Published: 2025-07-01T16:34:05
The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that.
Published: 2025-07-01T09:27:05
Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple's anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.
Published: 2025-07-01T06:31:13
Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.
Published: 2025-06-30T22:17:39
Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.
Published: 2025-06-30T18:29:15
Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web Just a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider's tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now on the ransomware crew's radar.
Published: 2025-06-30T17:31:15
Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work A major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back in 2018, telling the FBI that a cartel "hacker" was tracking a federal official and using their deep-rooted access to the country's critical infrastructure to kill informants.
Published: 2025-06-30T13:13:10
Like being hard to spot? They d much rather you didn't Opinion There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode.
Published: 2025-06-30T08:33:12
PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! Asia In Brief Canada's government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.
Published: 2025-06-30T03:26:11
PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos.
Published: 2025-06-30T00:34:56
Watch out for supply chain hacks especially interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.
Published: 2025-06-28T14:01:10
Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.
Published: 2025-06-27T22:59:14
Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the current vogue for "agentic AI."
Published: 2025-06-27T17:29:13
'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg update Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher believes Scattered Spider, which previously targeted retailers and insurance companies, could be to blame.
Published: 2025-06-27T16:56:12
Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller.
Published: 2025-06-27T15:27:12
Finance, health, and national identification details compromised Multinational grocery and retail megacorp Ahold Delhaize says upwards of 2.2 million people had their data compromised during its November cyberattack with personal, financial and health details among the trove.
Published: 2025-06-27T13:39:03
Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums The notorious data thief known as IntelBroker allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to more than 40 victims worldwide and stole their data, costing them at least $25 million in damages, according to newly unsealed court documents that also name IntelBroker as 25-year-old British national Kai West.
Published: 2025-06-26T19:02:09
Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Comment A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers.
Published: 2025-06-26T18:34:14
A 10.0 and a 9.8 these aren't patches to dwell on Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems.
Published: 2025-06-26T17:30:08
Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.
Published: 2025-06-26T12:01:15
Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.
Published: 2025-06-26T11:02:09
Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible with the RAF's refueling tanker aircraft.
Published: 2025-06-26T09:14:09
Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime' Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland's decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores "chilling" the UK supermarket chain says it's deploying the cameras to cut down on crime.
Published: 2025-06-26T08:30:06
Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities.
Published: 2025-06-26T06:28:14
Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day.
Published: 2025-06-25T21:10:02
It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.
Published: 2025-06-25T19:02:06
A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects' A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.
Published: 2025-06-25T17:55:08
Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.
Published: 2025-06-25T17:36:13
Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.
Published: 2025-06-25T15:34:56
Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
Published: 2025-06-25T09:26:17
Why are you even reading this story? Patch now! Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active exploitation. Yet.
Published: 2025-06-24T21:01:12
A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites Unknown miscreants are distributing a fake SonicWall app to steal users' VPN credentials.
Published: 2025-06-24T17:22:32
If an endpoint goes ping but isn't on the network, does anyone hear it? Partner content Recently, I've been diving deep into security control data across dozens of organizations, and what I've found has been both fascinating and alarming. Most security teams I work with can rattle off their vulnerability management statistics with confidence. They know their scan schedules, their remediation timelines, and their critical vulnerability counts. They point to clean dashboards and comprehensive reports as proof that their programs are working.
Published: 2025-06-24T15:01:42
Russian judge lets off accused with time served but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony Four convicted members of the once-supreme ransomware operation REvil are leaving captivity after completing most of their five-year sentences.
Published: 2025-06-24T11:46:09
Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple's App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for ad tracking and targeting.
Published: 2025-06-24T06:32:15
Plus: Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump campaign emails, Chinese hackers still in US telecoms networks, and an abusive deepfake website plans an expansion.
Published: 2025-07-05T10:30:00
IARPA director Rick Muller is departing after just over a year at the R&D unit that invests in emerging technologies of potential interest to agencies like the NSA and the CIA, WIRED has learned.
Published: 2025-07-03T20:50:33
The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app.
Published: 2025-07-03T18:06:17
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.
Published: 2025-07-03T17:19:59
LGBTIQ+ organizations in El Salvador are using technology to protect themselves and create a record of the country’s ongoing authoritarian escalations against their community. It’s not without risks.
Published: 2025-07-03T09:30:00
The Scattered Spider hacking group has caused chaos among retailers, insurers, and airlines in recent months. Researchers warn that its flexible structure poses challenges for defense.
Published: 2025-07-02T17:56:04
The US Justice Department revealed the identity theft number along with one arrest and a crackdown on “laptop farms” that allegedly facilitate North Korean tech worker impersonators across the US.
Published: 2025-06-30T20:00:39
Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam.
Published: 2025-06-28T10:30:00
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that age verification for explicit sites is constitutional. In a dissent, Justice Elena Kagan warned it burdens adults and ignores First Amendment precedent.
Published: 2025-06-27T15:36:57
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED including audio recordings show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
Published: 2025-06-25T21:21:09
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.
Published: 2025-06-23T16:48:39
Unmanned vehicles are increasingly becoming essential weapons of war. But with a potential conflict with China looming large, Taiwan is scrambling to build a domestic drone industry from scratch.
Published: 2025-06-23T10:00:00
The US concentrated its attack on Fordow, an enrichment plant built hundreds of feet underground. Aerial photos give important clues about what damage the “bunker-buster” bombs may have caused.
Published: 2025-06-22T21:41:46
The social network started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran.
Published: 2025-06-22T01:10:32
Plus: Ukrainian hackers reportedly knock out a key Russian internet provider, China’s Salt Typhoon hackers claim another victim, and the UK hits 23andMe with a hefty fine over its 2023 data breach.
Published: 2025-06-21T10:00:00
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China. The alert comes following an inspection of these apps carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) and the Criminal
Published: 2025-07-05T11:42:00
Threat actors are weaponizing exposed Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) interfaces to obtain code execution capabilities and deploy cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. "The attacker used a modified version of XMRig with a hard-"coded configuration, allowing them to avoid suspicious command-line arguments that are often flagged by defenders," Wiz researchers Yaara Shriki and Gili
Published: 2025-07-05T11:14:00
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit chain designed to target government, defense, and technology sectors in China. According to QiAnXin's RedDrip Team, the threat actor has been active since 2023 and has switched network
Published: 2025-07-04T18:29:00
Generative AI is changing how businesses work, learn, and innovate. But beneath the surface, something dangerous is happening. AI agents and custom GenAI workflows are creating new, hidden ways for sensitive enterprise data to leak and most teams don’t even realize it. If you’re building, deploying, or managing AI systems, now is the time to ask: Are your AI agents exposing confidential data
Published: 2025-07-04T15:01:00
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS score: 2.8) - Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host
Published: 2025-07-04T15:00:00
Google has been ordered by a court in the U.S. state of California to pay $314 million over charges that it misused Android device users' cellular data when they were idle to passively send information to the company. The verdict marks an end to a legal class-action complaint that was originally filed in August 2019. In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that Google's Android operating system
Published: 2025-07-04T12:47:00
A mobile ad fraud operation dubbed IconAds that consisted of 352 Android apps has been disrupted, according to a new report from HUMAN. The identified apps were designed to load out-of-context ads on a user's screen and hide their icons from the device home screen launcher, making it harder for victims to remove them, per the company's Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team. The apps have
Published: 2025-07-03T21:32:00
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered over 40 malicious browser extensions for Mozilla Firefox that are designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet secrets, putting users' digital assets at risk. "These extensions impersonate legitimate wallet tools from widely-used platforms such as Coinbase, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Phantom, Exodus, OKX, Keplr, MyMonero, Bitget, Leap, Ethereum Wallet, and Filfox
Published: 2025-07-03T16:23:00
If you’re evaluating AI-powered SOC platforms, you’ve likely seen bold claims: faster triage, smarter remediation, and less noise. But under the hood, not all AI is created equal. Many solutions rely on pre-trained AI models that are hardwired for a handful of specific use cases. While that might work for yesterday’s SOC, today's reality is different. Modern security operations teams face a
Published: 2025-07-03T16:00:00
The French cybersecurity agency on Tuesday revealed that a number of entities spanning governmental, telecommunications, media, finance, and transport sectors in the country were impacted by a malicious campaign undertaken by a Chinese hacking group by weaponizing several zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) devices. The campaign, detected at the beginning of
Published: 2025-07-03T14:55:00
Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) that could permit an attacker to login to a susceptible device as the root user, allowing them to gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20309, carries a CVSS score
Published: 2025-07-03T09:54:00
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting Web3 and cryptocurrency-related businesses with malware written in the Nim programming language, underscoring a constant evolution of their tactics. "Unusually for macOS malware, the threat actors employ a process injection technique and remote communications via wss, the TLS-encrypted version of the WebSocket protocol,"
Published: 2025-07-02T22:39:00
With nearly 80% of cyber threats now mimicking legitimate user behavior, how are top SOCs determining what’s legitimate traffic and what is potentially dangerous? Where do you turn when firewalls and endpoint detection and response (EDR) fall short at detecting the most important threats to your organization? Breaches at edge devices and VPN gateways have risen from 3% to 22%, according to
Published: 2025-07-02T16:30:00
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to phishing campaigns that impersonate popular brands and trick targets into calling phone numbers operated by threat actors. "A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads persuade victims to call adversary-controlled phone numbers, displaying another popular social engineering technique known as Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD
Published: 2025-07-02T16:15:00
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza Group to assist threat actors in their malicious activities and targeting victims in the country and across the world. The sanctions also extend to its subsidiaries Aeza International Ltd., the U.K. branch of Aeza Group, as well
Published: 2025-07-02T14:26:00
Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate their legitimate counterparts. "This observation signals a new evolution in the weaponization of Generative AI by threat actors who have demonstrated an ability to generate a functional phishing site from simple text prompts," Okta
Published: 2025-07-02T11:18:00
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Inspector project that could result in remote code execution (RCE) and allow an attacker to gain complete access to the hosts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49596, carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This is one
Published: 2025-07-01T23:33:00
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the tactical similarities between the threat actors behind the RomCom RAT and a cluster that has been observed delivering a loader dubbed TransferLoader. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint is tracking the activity associated with TransferLoader to a group dubbed UNK_GreenSec and the RomCom RAT actors under the moniker TA829. The latter is also known by the
Published: 2025-07-01T21:56:00
A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension verification process, ultimately enabling attackers to execute malicious code on developer machines. "We discovered that flawed verification checks in Visual Studio Code allow publishers to add functionality
Published: 2025-07-01T19:21:00
Despite years of investment in Zero Trust, SSE, and endpoint protection, many enterprises are still leaving one critical layer exposed: the browser. It’s where 85% of modern work now happens. It’s also where copy/paste actions, unsanctioned GenAI usage, rogue extensions, and personal devices create a risk surface that most security stacks weren’t designed to handle. For security leaders who know
Published: 2025-07-01T16:30:00
Google has released security updates to address a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for which an exploit exists in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a type confusing flaw in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 138.0.7204.96 allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary
Published: 2025-07-01T14:25:00
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday announced sweeping actions targeting the North Korean information technology (IT) worker scheme, leading to the arrest of one individual and the seizure of 29 financial accounts, 21 fraudulent websites, and nearly 200 computers. The coordinated action saw searches of 21 known or suspected "laptop farms" between June 10 and 17, 2025, across 14 states
Published: 2025-07-01T13:23:00
Microsoft has said that it's ending support for passwords in its Authenticator app starting August 1, 2025. Microsoft’s move is part of a much larger shift away from traditional password-based logins. The company said the changes are also meant to streamline autofill within its two-factor authentication (2FA) app, making the experience simpler and more secure.Over the past few years, Microsoft
Published: 2025-07-01T09:51:00
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have issued a joint advisory warning of potential cyber attacks from Iranian state-sponsored or affiliated threat actors. "Over the past several months, there has been increasing activity from hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors, which is expected to escalate due to recent events," the agencies said. "These cyber actors often
Published: 2025-06-30T21:59:00
Europol on Monday announced the takedown of a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that laundered 460 million ($540 million) from more than 5,000 victims across the world. The international effort, codenamed Operation Borrelli, was carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil, along with support from law enforcement authorities from Estonia, France, and the United States. Europol said the
Published: 2025-06-30T20:47:00
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been attributed with high confidence to the use of the Russian bulletproof hosting service Proton66. Trustwave SpiderLabs, in a report published last week, said it was able to make this connection by pivoting from Proton66-linked digital assets, leading to the discovery of an active threat cluster that leverages Visual Basic Script (VBS) files as its
Published: 2025-06-30T19:00:00
Identity-based attacks are on the rise. Attacks in which malicious actors assume the identity of an entity to easily gain access to resources and sensitive data have been increasing in number and frequency over the last few years. Some recent reports estimate that 83% of attacks involve compromised secrets. According to reports such as the Verizon DBIR, attackers are more commonly using stolen
Published: 2025-06-30T16:30:00
Ever wonder what happens when attackers don’t break the rules they just follow them better than we do? When systems work exactly as they’re built to, but that “by design” behavior quietly opens the door to risk? This week brings stories that make you stop and rethink what’s truly under control. It’s not always about a broken firewall or missed patch it’s about the small choices, default settings
Published: 2025-06-30T15:46:00
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector. To that end, the agency said it's actively working with aviation and industry partners to combat the activity and help victims. "These actors rely on social engineering techniques, often impersonating
Published: 2025-06-28T15:18:00
The threat actor behind the GIFTEDCROOK malware has made significant updates to turn the malicious program from a basic browser data stealer to a potent intelligence-gathering tool. "Recent campaigns in June 2025 demonstrate GIFTEDCROOK's enhanced ability to exfiltrate a broad range of sensitive documents from the devices of targeted individuals, including potentially proprietary files and
Published: 2025-06-28T13:28:00
Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence (AI), including those that have not been directly uploaded to the service. According to TechCrunch, which first reported the feature, users are being served a new pop-up message asking for permission to "allow
Published: 2025-06-28T12:49:00
Threat hunters have discovered a network of more than 1,000 compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices that have been used to facilitate a prolonged cyber espionage infrastructure campaign for China-nexus hacking groups. The Operational Relay Box (ORB) network has been codenamed LapDogs by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team. "The LapDogs network has a high concentration of victims
Published: 2025-06-27T21:28:00
A China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the Tibetan community. The spear-phishing attacks leveraged topics related to Tibet, such as the 9th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet (WPCT), China's education policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), and a recently published book by the 14th Dalai Lama,
Published: 2025-06-27T18:55:00
Security operations centers (SOCs) are under pressure from both sides: threats are growing more complex and frequent, while security budgets are no longer keeping pace. Today’s security leaders are expected to reduce risk and deliver results without relying on larger teams or increased spending. At the same time, SOC inefficiencies are draining resources. Studies show that up to half of all
Published: 2025-06-27T16:30:00
A new campaign has been observed leveraging fake websites advertising popular software such as WPS Office, Sogou, and DeepSeek to deliver Sainbox RAT and the open-source Hidden rootkit. The activity has been attributed with medium confidence to a Chinese hacking group called Silver Fox (aka Void Arachne), citing similarities in tradecraft with previous campaigns attributed to the threat actor.
Published: 2025-06-27T15:55:00
Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise is warning of a "notable surge" in scanning activity targeting Progress MOVEit Transfer systems starting May 27, 2025 suggesting that attackers may be preparing for another mass exploitation campaign or probing for unpatched systems.MOVEit Transfer is a popular managed file transfer solution used by businesses and government agencies to share sensitive data
Published: 2025-06-27T13:13:00
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft's ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. "The campaign exhibits characteristics aligned with Chinese-affiliated threat actors, though attribution remains cautious," Trellix researchers Nico Paulo
Published: 2025-06-27T12:01:00
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the Open VSX Registry ("open-vsx[.]org") that, if successfully exploited, could have enabled attackers to take control of the entire Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace, posing a severe supply chain risk. "This vulnerability provides attackers full control over the entire extensions marketplace, and in turn, full control
Published: 2025-06-26T22:16:00
Cisco has released updates to address two maximum-severity security flaws in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could permit an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. The vulnerabilities, assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2025-20281 and CVE-2025-20282, carry a CVSS score of 10.0 each. A description of the defects is
Published: 2025-06-26T18:54:00
The ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET. "The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including infostealers, ransomware, remote access trojans, cryptominers, post-exploitation tools, and even
Published: 2025-06-26T18:33:00
SaaS Adoption is Skyrocketing, Resilience Hasn’t Kept Pace SaaS platforms have revolutionized how businesses operate. They simplify collaboration, accelerate deployment, and reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure. But with their rise comes a subtle, dangerous assumption: that the convenience of SaaS extends to resilience. It doesn’t. These platforms weren’t built with full-scale data
Published: 2025-06-26T16:30:00
An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. "In some of those campaigns, Israeli technology and cyber security professionals were approached by attackers who posed as fictitious assistants to
Published: 2025-06-26T14:15:00
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the activity under the moniker CL-CRI-1014, where "CL" refers to "cluster" and "CRI" stands for "criminal motivation." It's suspected
Published: 2025-06-26T12:49:00
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three security flaws, each impacting AMI MegaRAC, D-Link DIR-859 router, and Fortinet FortiOS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-54085 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An authentication bypass by spoofing
Published: 2025-06-26T11:32:00
Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has added a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature that leverages its in-house solution Meta AI to summarize unread messages in chats. The feature, called Message Summaries, is currently rolling out in the English language to users in the United States, with plans to bring it to other regions and languages later this year. It "uses Meta AI to
Published: 2025-06-26T10:06:00
New research has uncovered continued risk from a known security weakness in Microsoft's Entra ID, potentially enabling malicious actors to achieve account takeovers in susceptible software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Identity security company Semperis, in an analysis of 104 SaaS applications, found nine of them to be vulnerable to Entra ID cross-tenant nOAuth abuse. First disclosed by
Published: 2025-06-25T22:26:00
Citrix has released security updates to address a critical flaw affecting NetScaler ADC that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6543, carries a CVSS score of 9.2 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of memory overflow that could result in unintended control flow and denial-of-service. However, successful exploitation requires the
Published: 2025-06-25T20:21:00
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two now-patched security flaws in SAP Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Windows and Java that, if successfully exploited, could have enabled attackers to access sensitive information under certain conditions. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-0055 and CVE-2025-0056 (CVSS scores: 6.0), were patched by SAP as part of its monthly updates for January
Published: 2025-06-25T19:07:00
Thousands of personal records allegedly linked to athletes and visitors of the Saudi Games have been published online by a pro-Iranian hacktivist group called Cyber Fattah. Cybersecurity company Resecurity said the breach was announced on Telegram on June 22, 2025, in the form of SQL database dumps, characterizing it as an information operation "carried out by Iran and its proxies." "The actors
Published: 2025-06-25T16:30:00
If you invite guest users into your Entra ID tenant, you may be opening yourself up to a surprising risk. A gap in access control in Microsoft Entra’s subscription handling is allowing guest users to create and transfer subscriptions into the tenant they are invited into, while maintaining full ownership of them. All the guest user needs are the permissions to create subscriptions in
Published: 2025-06-25T16:00:00
North Korea-linked hackers use fake Zoom updates to spread macOS NimDoor malware, targeting crypto firms with stealthy backdoors. North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting Web3 and crypto firms with NimDoor, a rare macOS backdoor disguised as a fake Zoom update. Victims are tricked into installing the malware through phishing links sent via Calendly or Telegram. […]
Published: 2025-07-05T16:32:55
Critical Sudo flaws let local users gain root access on Linux systems, the vulnerabilities affect major Linux distributions. Cybersecurity researchers disclosed two vulnerabilities in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Local attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to escalate privileges to root on affected systems. Sudo (short for “superuser do”) is a […]
Published: 2025-07-04T20:04:17
Google must pay $314M after a California court ruled it misused idle Android users’ data. The case ends a class-action suit filed in August 2019. A San Jose jury ruled that Google misused Android users’ cell phone data and must pay over $314.6 million in damages to affected users in California. Google is liable for […]
Published: 2025-07-04T12:22:25
A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of 62,000 users, turning the spy tool into a data leak, security researcher Eric Daigle revealed. A flaw in the Catwatchful Android spyware exposed its full user database, leaking email addresses and plaintext passwords of both customers and its admin, TechCrunch first reported. Security researcher Eric Daigle first discovered […]
Published: 2025-07-04T07:28:44
China-linked group Houken hit French govt, telecom, media, finance and transport sectors using Ivanti CSA zero-days, says France’s ANSSI. France’s cyber agency ANSSI revealed that a Chinese hacking group used Ivanti CSA zero-days to target government, telecom, media, finance, and transport sectors. The campaign, active since September 2024, is linked to the Houken intrusion set, […]
Published: 2025-07-03T18:16:35
Resecurity found a breach in Brazil’s CIEE One platform, exposing PII and documents, later sold by data broker “888” on the dark web. Resecurity identified a data breach of one of the major platforms in Brazil connecting businesses and trainees called CIEE One – leading to the compromise of sensitive PII, including ID records, contact […]
Published: 2025-07-03T17:10:10
Europol shuts down Archetyp Market, longest-running dark web drug site, the police arrested the admin in Spain, top vendors hit in Sweden. An international law enforcement operation led by German authorities has shut down Archetyp Market, the longest-running dark web drug marketplace, in a coordinated operation across six countries with support from Europol and Eurojust. […]
Published: 2025-07-03T09:53:28
A data breach at Kelly Benefits has impacted 550,000 people, with the number of affected individuals growing as the investigation continues. Benefits and payroll solutions firm Kelly Benefits has confirmed that a recent data breach has affected 550,000 individuals. As the investigation continued, the scale of the impact expanded, revealing that more people were affected […]
Published: 2025-07-03T07:47:14
Digital communications technology giant Cisco addressed a static SSH credentials vulnerability in its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM). A flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20309 (CVSS score of 10), in Cisco Unified Communications Manager and its Session Management Edition lets remote attackers log in using hardcoded root credentials set during development. Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is a call […]
Published: 2025-07-02T19:13:05
U.S. Treasury sanctions Russia-based Aeza Group and affiliates for aiding cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Russia-based Aeza Group for aiding global cybercriminals via bulletproof hosting services. A bulletproof hosting service is a type of internet hosting provider that knowingly allows cybercriminals to host malicious content […]
Published: 2025-07-02T13:11:39