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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/17/2025, 8:14:00 AM

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Ransomware attack disrupts New York blood donation giant

​The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world's largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to reschedule some appointments. [...]

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Automated Pen Testing Is Improving — Slowly

The rate of evolution has been glacial, but tools now understand cloud environments and can target Web applications.

Krebs on Security

6 months ago

Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit -- a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named "Funnull" -- highlights a persistent whac-a-mole problem facing cloud services.

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. "Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities," Google Threat

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

DeepSeek AI exposed databases with user chat history, API keys

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. [...]

Dark Reading

6 months ago

New Jailbreaks Allow Users to Manipulate GitHub Copilot

Whether by intercepting its traffic or just giving it a little nudge, GitHub's AI assistant can be made to do malicious things it isn't supposed to.

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

The Advantages of Cloud-Based Remote Desktop versus RDP over VPN

Remote work is now an essential part of many businesses, requiring organizations to rethink how they provide secure and efficient access to corporate resources. Learn from TruGrid about the advantages of cloud-based RDP versus RDP over VPN, especially in the context of security, performance, and cost-effectiveness. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Major GitHub outage affects pull requests and other services

​GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

New Syncjacking attack hijacks devices using Chrome extensions

A new attack called 'Browser Syncjacking' demonstrates the possibility of using a seemingly benign Chrome extension to take over a victim's device through the browser. [...]