Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code.... [...]

Fashion retail giant Victoria's Secret has delayed its first quarter 2025 earnings release because of ongoing corporate system restoration efforts following a May 24 security incident. [...]

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta …

To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets …

They’re interesting : Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux systems. [...] “This means that if a …

Google has released an emergency security update to fix the third Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year. [...]

Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems.... [...]

The latest version of the 'Crocodilus' Android malware has introduced a new mechanism that adds a fake contact on the infected device's contact list to deceive victims. [...]

Luxury fashion brand Cartier is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information after its systems were compromised. [...]

A real-world Trojan Horse attack Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."... [...]

Outdoor apparel retailer The North Face is warning customers that their personal information was stolen in credential stuffing attacks targeting the company's website in April. [...]

American cybersecurity company SentinelOne revealed over the weekend that a software flaw triggered a seven-hour-long outage on Thursday. [...]

Google says it will no longer trust root CA certificates signed by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock in the Chrome Root Store due to a pattern of compliance failures and failure to make improvements. [...]

Microsoft and CrowdStrike announced today that they've partnered to connect the aliases used for specific threat groups without actually using a single naming standard. [...]

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority. We’re excited to announce the Data Protection track at AWS re:Inforce 2025, happening June …

You can never be sure when you’ll be the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. For investigative journalist Brian Krebs, that day came on May 12, when his site KrebsOnSecurity experienced one of the largest DDoS attacks seen to date. At 6.3 terabits per second (Tbps …

The "Russian Market" cybercrime marketplace has emerged as one of the most popular platforms for buying and selling credentials stolen by information stealer malware. [...]

Disclosure at MainStreet Bancshares comes as American finance orgs beg for looser reporting requirements Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider.... [...]

Qualcomm has released security patches for three zero-day vulnerabilities in the Adreno Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) driver that impact dozens of chipsets and are actively exploited in targeted attacks. [...]

A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made. [...]

PLUS: Ransomware gang using tech support scam; Czechia accuses China of infrastructure attack; And more! Infosec In Brief Despite last week’s FBI announcement that it helped to take down the crew behind the Lumma infostealer, the malware continues to operate.... [...]

Technical details about a maximum-severity Cisco IOS XE WLC arbitrary file upload flaw tracked as CVE-2025-20188 have been made publicly available, bringing us closer to a working exploit. [...]

For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked thousands of victims, including businesses, schools, and hospitals. “Fuck clinics in the usa this week,” one member wrote in internal Trickbot messages in 2020 about a list of 428 …

'It's a high-stakes intelligence war' he told El Reg exclusive A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.... [...]

Two critical vulnerabilities affecting the open-source forum software vBulletin have been discovered, with one confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. [...]

Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.... [...]

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in …

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks.... [...]

An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. [...]

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.... [...]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Enrique Alvarez, public sector advisor, Office of the CISO, explores how government agencies can use AI to improve threat detection — and save money at the same time. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter …

The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) claims that Stern, the leader of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is a 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev. [...]

Pentesting isn't just about finding flaws — it's about knowing which ones matter. Pentera's 2025 State of Pentesting report uncovers which assets attackers target most, where security teams are making progress, and which exposures still fly under the radar. Focus on reducing breach impact, not just breach count. [...]

There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to …

Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware.... [...]

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.... [...]

War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.... [...]

30-year anniversary event adds classes and sessions to address new risks Partner content Infosecurity Europe celebrates its 30th anniversary by doubling down on its mission: Building a Safer Cyber World. Returning to ExCeL London from 3-5 June, the landmark edition of Europe's most influential cybersecurity event is set to …

Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as “ pig butchering.” In January 2025, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Funnull was being used as …

Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.... [...]

Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.... [...]

The Microsoft Authenticator app is now issuing notifications warning that the password autofill feature is being deprecated in July, suggesting users move to Microsoft Edge instead. [...]

'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to …

I hadn’t known that the NGC 1068 galaxy is nicknamed the “Squid Galaxy.” It is, and it’s spewing neutrinos without the usual accompanying gamma rays. [...]

House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.... [...]

IT management software firm ConnectWise says a suspected state-sponsored cyberattack breached its environment and impacted a limited number of ScreenConnect customers. [...]

Threat actors are abusing the trusted Google platform 'Google Apps Script' to host phishing pages, making them appear legitimate and eliminating the risk of them getting flagged by security tools. [...]

No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.... [...]

A weakness in Apple's Safari web browser allows threat actors to leverage the fullscreen browser-in-the-middle (BitM) technique to steal account credentials from unsuspecting users. [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans. [...]