Category: Data Breaches

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned a member of a North Korean hacking group called Andariel for their role in the infamous remote information technology (IT) worker scheme.
The Treasury said Song Kum Hyok, a 38-year-old North Korean national with an address in the Chinese province of Jilin, enabled the fraudulent operation by using

Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features over 1,000 pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community – all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition.
A recent standout is a workflow that handles malware alerts with CrowdStrike, Oomnitza, GitHub, and PagerDuty. Developed by Lucas Cantor at

A Chinese national has been arrested in Milan, Italy, for his alleged links to a state-sponsored hacking group known as Silk Typhoon and for carrying out cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies.
The 33-year-old, Xu Zewei, has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain information by unauthorized access to protected

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but the company acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly known.
The patches resolve a whopping 130 vulnerabilities, along with 10 other non-Microsoft CVEs that affect Visual Studio, AMD, and its Chromium-based Edge browser. Of these 10 are rated Critical and

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called Ethcode that has been installed a little over 6,000 times.
The compromise, per ReversingLabs, occurred via a GitHub pull request that was opened by a user named Airez299 on June 17, 2025.
First released by 7finney in 2022, Ethcode is a VS Code extension that’s used to

From overprivileged admin roles to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers are slipping through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how five retail breaches unfolded, and what they reveal about…
In recent months, major retailers like Adidas, The North Face, Dior, Victoria’s Secret, Cartier, Marks & Spencer, and Co‑op have all been breached. These attacks weren’t sophisticated

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a malware campaign that’s targeting security flaws in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers to rope the devices into a new botnet called RondoDox.
The vulnerabilities in question include CVE-2024-3721, a medium-severity command injection vulnerability affecting TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 DVRs, and CVE-2024-12856, an operating

A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries.
These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public figures, central banks, or financial

Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia.
The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since July 2024.
“The targeted attack begins with bait emails containing malicious links, sent under the pretext of signing a contract,” the Russian company said. “The main goal of the

Everything feels secure—until one small thing slips through. Even strong systems can break if a simple check is missed or a trusted tool is misused. Most threats don’t start with alarms—they sneak in through the little things we overlook. A tiny bug, a reused password, a quiet connection—that’s all it takes.
Staying safe isn’t just about reacting fast. It’s about catching these early signs