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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/10/2025, 11:23:21 AM

Dark Reading

6 months ago

US Ban on Automotive Components Could Curb Supply Chain

The US Department of Commerce will prohibit the import of components for connected vehicles from China or Russia, as the US continues to ban technology it sees as potential national security threats.

The Register

6 months ago

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.… Opinion

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Product Walkthrough: How Satori Secures Sensitive Data From Production to AI

Every week seems to bring news of another data breach, and it’s no surprise why: securing sensitive data has become harder than ever. And it’s not just because companies are dealing with orders of magnitude more data. Data flows and user roles are constantly shifting, and data is stored across multiple technologies and cloud environments. Not to mention, compliance requirements are only getting

The Hacker News

6 months ago

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [20 January]

As the digital world becomes more complicated, the lines between national security and cybersecurity are starting to fade. Recent cyber sanctions and intelligence moves show a reality where malware and fake news are used as tools in global politics. Every cyberattack now seems to have deeper political consequences. Governments are facing new, unpredictable threats that can't be fought with

The Register

6 months ago

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Microsoft shares temp fix for Outlook crashing when writing emails

Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for a known issue that causes classic Outlook to crash when writing, replying to, or forwarding an email. [...]

The Register

6 months ago

Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Hackers Deploy Malicious npm Packages to Steal Solana Wallet Keys via Gmail SMTP

Cybersecurity researchers have identified three sets of malicious packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that come with capabilities to steal data and even delete sensitive data from infected systems. The list of identified packages is below - @async-mutex/mutex, a typosquat of async-mute (npm) dexscreener, which masquerades as a library for accessing liquidity pool

The Register

6 months ago

Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.… Infosec in brief

The Register

6 months ago

When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight

PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.… Asia In Brief