Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials
Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named ‘Phantom Shuttle’ are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user traffic and steal sensitive data.…
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Cyberattack knocks offline France’s postal, banking services
La Poste, the French national postal service, confirmed on Monday that all its information systems were knocked offline by “a major network incident,” disrupting digital…
Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues
Italy’s competition authority (AGCM) has fined Apple €98.6 million ($116 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework to abuse its dominant market…
Baker University says 2024 data breach impacts 53,000 people
Baker University has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to its network one year ago and stole the personal, health, and financial information…
Nissan says thousands of customers exposed in Red Hat breach
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Nissan) has confirmed that information of thousands of its customers has been compromised after the data breach at Red Hat in September.…
New MacSync malware dropper evades macOS Gatekeeper checks
The latest variant of the MacSync information stealer targeting macOS systems is delivered through a digitally signed, notarized Swift application. Security researchers at Apple device…
CISA flags ASUS Live Update CVE, but the attack is years old
An ASUS Live Update vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-59374 has been making the rounds in infosec feeds, with some headlines implying recent or ongoing exploitation. The…
Interpol-led action decrypts 6 ransomware strains, arrests hundreds
An Interpol-coordinated initiative called Operation Sentinel led to the arrest of 574 individuals and the recovery of $3 million linked to business email compromise, extortion,…
Malicious npm package steals WhatsApp accounts and messages
A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal WhatsApp messages, collect contacts, and gain…
Romanian water authority hit by ransomware attack over weekend
Romanian Waters (Administrația Națională Apele Române), the country’s water management authority, was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend. Officials with the National Cyber Security Directorate…
Coupang breach affecting 33.7 million users raises data protection questions
Coupang, South Korea’s leading e-commerce platform, recently disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts which is equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the Korean…
University of Phoenix data breach impacts nearly 3.5 million individuals
The Clop ransomware gang has stolen the data of nearly 3.5 million University of Phoenix (UoPX) students, staff, and suppliers after breaching the university’s network…