Latest news as of 7/12/2025, 3:16:27 PM
The Register
Stoli Group on the rocks in the US Two US subsidiaries of alcohol giant Stoli Group filed for bankruptcy protection this week over financial difficulties exacerbated by an August ransomware attack.…
The Hacker News
The China-linked threat actor known as MirrorFace has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign mainly targeting individuals and organizations in Japan since June 2024. The aim of the campaign is to deliver backdoors known as NOOPDOOR (aka HiddenFace) and ANEL (aka UPPERCUT), Trend Micro said in a technical analysis. "An interesting aspect of this campaign is the comeback of a backdoor
Graham Cluley
Wotnot, An Indian AI startup that helps businesses build custom chatbots, has leaked almost 350,000 sensitive files after the data was left unsecured on the web. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Dark Reading
Authorities across 19 African countries also dismantled their infrastructure and networks, thanks to cooperation between global law enforcement and private firms.
The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added multiple security flaws affecting products from Zyxel, North Grid Proself, ProjectSend, and CyberPanel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-51378 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An incorrect default permissions
The Hacker News
The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Wednesday announced that it led an international investigation to disrupt Russian money laundering networks that were found to facilitate serious and organized crime across the U.K., the Middle East, Russia, and South America. The effort, codenamed Operation Destabilise, has resulted in the arrest of 84 suspects linked to two Russian-speaking networks
The Register
Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months – and in some cases still haven't been booted out – T-Mobile US thwarted successful attacks on its systems "within a single-digit number of days," according to the carrier's security boss Jeff Simon.… interview
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft made it abundantly clear this week that Windows 10 users won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11 unless their systems come with TPM 2.0 support, stating it's a "non-negotiable" requirement. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A new Android banking malware named 'DroidBot' attempts to steal credentials for over 77 cryptocurrency exchanges and banking apps in the UK, Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden's deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. [...]