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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical incidents and trends. A global outage of Microsoft 365 services, affecting Outlook and Teams, is raising concerns about potential exploitation by cybercriminals during the disruption. In data breach news, Uber confirmed the theft of thousands of drivers' licenses due to a security incident at a cloud service provider, while TSMC reported a data breach linked to a cloud vendor, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party services. Additionally, the FBI has attributed over $400 million in cryptocurrency theft to North Korean hackers using deepfake video calls. On the malware front, the international law enforcement operation "Endgame" successfully disrupted Gootloader and CastleRAT infrastructures, while new vulnerabilities in Check Point gateways have been exploited for destructive attacks. Phishing attacks are surging, particularly in Europe, with notable increases in detection rates.
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Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada's anti money-laundering laws come ten months afte...
A high-severity vulnerability in the now-abandoned async-tar Rust library and its forks can be exploited to gain remote code execution on systems running unpatched software. [...]
Normally when we write about a malware operation being disrupted, it's because it has been shut down by law enforcement. But in the case of Lumma Stealer, a notorious malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation used to steal passwords and sensitive data, it appears to have been sabotaged by other cybercr...
Zuyao Xu and Xiang Li discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain
malformed DNSKEY records. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2025-8677)
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that...
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine's war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2).
The activity, which took place on...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs and provides mitigations for security vulnerabilities which could result in privilege escalation or denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 3.20250812.1~deb12u1.
Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technologyâbut the duration serves as a warning.
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- ARM64 architecture;
- PowerPC architecture;
- x86 architecture;
- ACPI drivers;
- Ublk userspace block drive...
An open letter released Wednesday has called for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence systems considered to be âsuperintelligentâ until there is broad scientific consensus that such technologies can be created both safely and in a manner the public supports. The statement, issued by...
The latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 paints a vivid picture of a cyberthreat landscape in flux. The surge in financially motivated cyberattacks and the persistent risk of nation-state actors demand urgent attention. But for those of us in the Office of the CISO, the real challenge, and o...
A survey of 1,100 cybersecurity and IT professionals published this week finds more than three quarters (76%) report their organization is struggling to keep pace with cyberattacks that have increased in both volume and sophistication. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf o...
The add-ons abuse WhatsApp Web to blast bulk messages, sidestepping both Chromeâs extension policies and WhatsAppâs anti-spam rules.
SentinelLABS Researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign, PhantomCaptcha, targeting aid organizations supporting Ukraine
Ever wonder if youâre talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity. Today on TechCrunchâs Equ...
State attorneys general are playing a vital role in protecting consumers in the absence of a comprehensive data privacy federal law, researchers found.
Meta has announced new tools to help WhatsApp and Messenger users protect themselves from potential scams and secure their accounts. [...]
The FinWise breach shows that when insider threats strike, encryption is the last line of defense. Penta Security's D.AMO platform unites encryption, key management, and access control to keep sensitive data secure. [...]