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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/21/2025, 10:55:58 PM

Krebs on Security

2 months ago

U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

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, commonly known as “pig butchering." In January 2025, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Funnull was being used as a content delivery network that catered to cybercriminals seeking to route their traffic through U.S.-based cloud providers.

The Register

2 months ago

Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

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

The Register

2 months ago

Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

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.…

Bleeping Computer

2 months ago

Mozilla releases Firefox 139.0.1 update to fix artifacts on Nvidia GPUs

Mozilla has rolled out an emergency Firefox 139.0.1 update after the Tuesday release caused graphical artifacts on PCs with NVIDIA GPUs. [...]

Bleeping Computer

2 months ago

Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July cutoff

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 Register

2 months ago

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

'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 dodge the update.…

Dark Reading

2 months ago

APT41 Uses Google Calendar Events for C2

APT41, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor also known as "Double Dragon," used Google Calendar as command-and-control infrastructure during a campaign last fall.

Dark Reading

2 months ago

New Botnet Plants Persistent Backdoors in ASUS Routers

Thousands of ASUS routers have been infected and are believed to be part of a wide-ranging ORB network affecting devices from Linksys, D-Link, QNAP, and Araknis Network.

Dark Reading

2 months ago

Victoria's Secret Goes Offline After 'Incident' Claims

The lingerie retailer isn't revealing much about the security incident it's dealing with but has brought in third-party experts to address the issue.

Dark Reading

2 months ago

SentinelOne Reports Services Are Back Online After Global Outage

The outage reportedly hit 10 commercial customer consoles for SentinelOne's Singularity platform, including Singularity Endpoint, XDR, Cloud Security, Identity, Data Lake, RemoteOps, and more.