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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 8/3/2025, 8:05:40 AM

Dark Reading

9 days ago

AI-Generated Linux Miner 'Koske' Beats Human Malware

AI malware is becoming less of a gimmick, with features that meet or exceed what traditional human-developed malware typically can do.

Bleeping Computer

9 days ago

Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 admin center

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking Microsoft 365 administrators with business or enterprise subscriptions from accessing the admin center. [...]

Dark Reading

9 days ago

North Korea's IT Worker Rampage Continues Amid DoJ Action

Arrests and indictments keep coming, but the North Korean fake IT worker scheme is only snowballing, and businesses can't afford to assume their applicant-screening processes are up to the task of weeding the imposters out.

Bleeping Computer

9 days ago

The role of the cybersecurity PM in incident-driven development

From PowerShell abuse to USB data theft, modern threats hit fast—and hard.vSee how security-minded PMs are responding with real-time controls, smarter policies, and tools like ThreatLocker Patch Management. [...]

The Hacker News

9 days ago

Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files

The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. "The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference invitations sent to targets interested in learning more about unmanned vehicle systems," Arctic Wolf Labs said

The Hacker News

9 days ago

U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka Sobaeksu United Corporation), and Kim Se Un, Jo

The Register

9 days ago

Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in

Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.…

The Hacker News

9 days ago

Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor

Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for Unknown Group 901). "The campaign is aimed at targeting employees of Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO), one

Dark Reading

9 days ago

Why Security Nudges Took Off

Nudges can be powerful — but they are not immune to overuse or misapplication.

The Register

9 days ago

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union – should the Trump administration demand access to customer information held on its servers.…