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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/10/2025, 12:48:06 AM

Have I Been Pwned

6 months ago

Frame & Optic - 15,678 breached accounts

In January 2025, . The incident exposed almost 16k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and geolocation data including country, state and postcode. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru". the eyewear seller Frame & Optic suffered a data breach

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products

Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework (CVE-2025-21556, CVSS score: 9.9) that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible instances. "Easily exploitable

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Mandatory MFA, Biometrics Make Headway in Middle East, Africa

Despite lagging in technology adoption, African and Middle Eastern organizations are catching up, driven by smartphone acceptance and national identity systems.

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on October 29, 2024, targeting one of its customers, an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. The activity originated

The Register

6 months ago

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…

The Register

6 months ago

PowerSchool thieves net decades of Canadian students' records, hit 40-plus US states

Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Trump Fires Cyber Safety Board Investigating Salt Typhoon Hackers

In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) tasked with investigating state-sponsored cyber threats against the US.

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Email Bombing, 'Vishing' Tactics Abound in Microsoft 365 Attacks

Sophos noted more than 15 attacks have been reported during the past three months.

Dark Reading

6 months ago

DONOT Group Deploys Malicious Android Apps in India

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group is likely India-based and targeting individuals with connections to the country's intelligence community.

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. [...]