Australia Enforces Ransomware Payment Reporting
Australia has enforced new regulation that requires reporting businesses to inform the government if they make ransomware or other cyber extortion payments. Per the legislation,…
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Google Researchers Find New Chrome Zero-Day
Google on Monday released a fresh Chrome 137 update to address three vulnerabilities, including a high-severity bug exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2025-5419, the…
Microsoft, CrowdStrike Lead Effort to Map Threat Actor Names
Microsoft and CrowdStrike announced on Monday that they are leading an industry effort to map threat actor naming, with the goal of making it easier…
Cartier Data Breach: Luxury Retailer Warns Customers that Personal Data Was Exposed
Luxury brand Cartier disclosed a data breach on Monday in which an unauthorized party gained access to its systems and obtained some client information. According…
Cryptojackers Caught Mining Monero via Exposed DevOps Infrastructure
Security researchers at Wiz on Monday raised an alarm catching a malicious hacker hijacking misconfigured DevOps infrastructure for cryptocurrency mining in what appears to be the…
Qualcomm Flags Exploitation of Adreno GPU Flaws, Urges OEMs to Patch Urgently
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm on Monday warned that professional hackers are already exploiting three newly patched Adreno GPU bugs and the company is pressing phone makers…
vBulletin Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability affecting the vBulletin forum software is being exploited in the wild, with attacks starting shortly after disclosure. Researcher Egidio Romano published a…
US Government Is Investigating Messages Impersonating Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles
The government is investigating after elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures in recent weeks received messages from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, President Donald…
Chrome to Distrust Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock Certificates
Google on Friday announced that the Chrome Root Store will no longer trust digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock. The change will be…
Alleged Conti, TrickBot Gang Leader Unmasked
German authorities have named Russian national Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev as the founder and leader of the TrickBot cybercrime gang. Established in 2016, the TrickBot group…
Technical Details Published for Critical Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability
Technical details have been released for a recently patched critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE that could be exploited for remote code execution (RCE). Tracked…
Counter Antivirus Service AVCheck Shut Down by Law Enforcement
Dutch authorities announced the takedown of AVCheck, one of the largest counter antivirus (CAV) services used by cybercriminals worldwide. CAV services such as AVCheck play…