Latest news as of 7/12/2025, 10:13:52 AM
The Register
Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings Despite a law enforcement takedown six months ago, LockBit 3.0 remains the most prolific encryption and extortion gang, at least so far, this year, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.…
Have I Been Pwned
In April 2024, . The initial corpus of data released in the breach contained billions of rows of personal information, including US social security numbers. Further partial data sets were later released including extensive personal information and 134M unique email addresses, although the origin and accuracy of the data remains in question. This breach has been flagged as "unverified" and a full description of the incident is in the link above. a large trove of data made headlines as having exposed "3 billion people" due to a breach of the National Public Data background check service
Bleeping Computer
Today is Microsoft's August 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including six actively exploited and three publicly disclosed zero-days. Microsoft is still working on an update for a tenth publicly disclosed zero-day. [...]
Dark Reading
Privilege escalation flaws in the healthcare chatbot platform could have allowed unauthorized cross-tenant access and management of other customers’ resources.
Dark Reading
Computer infrastructure in the US, UK, and Germany associated with the cybercriminal group, which targeted SMBs using double extortion, is officially out of commission.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing some Windows devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing last month's Windows security updates. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has released the KB5041585 cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2, which includes many improvements and changes, including the ability to directly drag apps from the Pinned section of the Start menu and pin them to the taskbar. [...]
The Register
Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’ The US has charged a suspect they claim is a Belarusian-Ukrainian cybercriminal whose offenses date back to 2011.…
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has released the KB5041580 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which includes 14 changes and fixes, including BitLocker fixes and important security updates. [...]
Dark Reading
Earth Baku, yet another subgroup of the highly active and increasingly sophisticated collective, is moving into EMEA with new malware and living-off-the-land (LOL) tactics.