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Orange Belgium says hackers accessed data pertaining to 850,000 customer accounts during a July cyberattack. The post Orange Belgium Data Breach Impacts 850,000 Customers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Separating truth from fiction is the first step towards making better parenting decisions. Letβs puncture some of the most common misconceptions about online harassment.
A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts. Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty to charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft back in April 2025. News of Urban's sentencing was reported by Bloomberg and Jacksonville news
At one point, Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky was hacking thousands of websites within the span of three months while stealing personal data and sensitive information.
A $50,000 reward from Europol for two members of the Qilin ransomware group is a βscamβ, according to the law enforcement agency. The post Europol Says Qilin Ransomware Reward Fake appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Apple has released security updates to address a security flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The zero-day out-of-bounds write vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43300 (CVSS score: 8.8), resides in the ImageIO frameworkand could result in memory corruptionwhen processing a malicious image. "Apple is aware of a report that
A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five...
Detailed spear-phishing emails sent to European government entities in Seoul are being tied to North Korea, China, or both.
The goal of the Quantum-Safe Program is to ensure that by 2033 all Microsoft products and services are safe by default against quantum-based attacks.
The dangers are particularly severe when they secure IT positions with privileged access and administrative permissions.
The vulnerabilities themselves aren't new, but are being exploited in a novel manner that could lead to a "devastating attack."
Some LLM-created scripts and emails can lower the barrier of entry for low-skill attackers, who can use services like Lovable to create convincing, effective websites in minutes.
In the past year, "Static Tundra," aka "Energetic Bear," has breached thousands of end-of-life Cisco devices unpatched against a 2018 flaw, in a campaign targeting enterprises and critical infrastructure.
Exposure of APIs, sensitive data, and corporate documents are just some of the security issues that the purveyor of Big Macs was cooking up.
VisionSpace Technologies' Andrzej Olchawa and Milenko Starcik discussed a set of vulnerabilities capable of ending space missions at the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk.
The combined company will provide customers with enhanced AI-driven identity verification to counter agentic AI, deepfakes, synthetic fraud, and more.
Popular password manager plugins for web browsers have been found susceptible to clickjacking security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal account credentials, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, and credit card details under certain conditions. The technique has been dubbed Document Object Model (DOM)-based extension clickjacking by independent security researcher Marek TΓ³th,
Do you know how many AI agents are running inside your business right now? If the answer is βnot sure,β youβre not aloneβand thatβs exactly the concern. Across industries, AI agents are being set up every day. Sometimes by IT, but often by business units moving fast to get results. That means agents are running quietly in the backgroundβwithout proper IDs, without owners, and without logs of
A Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Static Tundra has been observed actively exploiting a seven-year-old security flaw in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software as a means to establish persistent access to target networks. Cisco Talos, which disclosed details of the activity, said the attacks single out organizations in telecommunications, higher education and manufacturing
Instead of GPT-5 Pro, your query could be quietly redirected to an older, weaker model, opening the door to jailbreaks, hallucinations, and unsafe outputs. The post GPT-5 Has a Vulnerability: Its Router Can Send You to Older, Less Safe Models appeared first on SecurityWeek.
By focusing on fundamentals, enterprises can avoid the distraction of hype and build security programs that are consistent, resilient, and effective over the long run. The post Slow and Steady Security: Lessons from the Tortoise and the Hare appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Elastic has found no evidence of a vulnerability leading to RCE after details and PoC of a Defend EDR bypass were published online. The post Elastic Refutes Claims of Zero-Day in EDR Product appeared first on SecurityWeek.
We can strip attackers of their power by implementing layered defenses, ruthless patch management, and incident response that assumes failure and prioritizes transparency.
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into carrying out intended actions by embedding the malicious instruction inside a fake CAPTCHA check on a web page. Described by Guardio Labs an "AI-era take on the ClickFix scam," the attack technique demonstrates how AI-driven browsers,
Seemplicity announced a Series B funding round that will be used to create AI agents for its exposure management solution. The post Seemplicity Raises $50 Million for Exposure Management Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CERT/CC has disclosed the details of information exposure vulnerabilities in a Workhorse Software application after patches were released. The post Flaws in Software Used by Hundreds of Cities and Towns Exposed Sensitive Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Inotiv has notified the SEC that its business operations took a hit after hackers compromised and encrypted its internal systems. The post Pharmaceutical Company Inotiv Confirms Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In this input integrity attack against an AI system, researchers were able to fool AIOps tools: AIOps refers to the use of LLM-based agents to gather and analyze application telemetry, including system logs, performance metrics, traces, and alerts, to detect problems and then suggest or carry out corrective actions. The likes of Cisco have deployed AIops in a conversational interface that admins can use to prompt for...
Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means a growing number of risks, along with an increase in their frequency, variety, complexity, severity, and potential business impact. The real question is, βHow do you tackle these rising threats?β The answer lies in having a robust BCDR strategy. However, to build a
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States just published its 2024 report, revealing once again that shielding U.S. tech from risky foreign investments was a critical focus for the interagency group that reviews investments in the United States for national security risks. But as U.S.-China tensions further intensify, bolstering these reviews is even [β¦] The post The U.S. should bolster investment reviews...
North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of at least 19 spear-phishing emails that impersonated trusted diplomatic contacts with the goal of luring embassy staff and foreign ministry personnel with convincing meeting invites
A researcher said he found vulnerable internal services that exposed the information of 270,000 Intel employees. The post Intel Employee Data Exposed by Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The uptick in breaches in Asia has prompted a Japanese chipmaker and the Singaporean government to require vendors to pass cybersecurity checks to do business.
The DDoS botnet was among the most powerful on record, allegedly exceeding six terabits per second during its largest attack, authorities said. Victims are spread across 80 countries. The post Officials gain control of Rapper Bot DDoS botnet, charge lead developer and administrator appeared first on CyberScoop.
This attack was seemingly more successful than the first iteration, causing disruptions at the plant.