Threatline

Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/13/2025, 3:13:53 PM

Bleeping Computer

7 months ago

US charges Russian-Israeli as suspected LockBit ransomware coder

The US Department of Justice has charged a Russian-Israeli dual-national for his suspected role in developing malware and managing the infrastructure for the notorious LockBit ransomware group. [...]

Bleeping Computer

7 months ago

Sophos Firewall vulnerable to critical remote code execution flaw

Sophos has addressed three vulnerabilities in its Sophos Firewall product that could allow remote unauthenticated threat actors to perform SQL injection, remote code execution, and gain privileged SSH access to devices. [...]

Dark Reading

7 months ago

How Nation-State Cybercriminals Are Targeting the Enterprise

Combating nation-state threat actors at the enterprise level requires more than just cyber readiness and investment — it calls for a collaborative effort.

Dark Reading

7 months ago

Managing Threats When Most of the Security Team Is Out of the Office

During holidays and slow weeks, teams thin out and attackers move in. Here are strategies to bridge gaps, stay vigilant, and keep systems secure during those lulls.

Bleeping Computer

7 months ago

Krispy Kreme breach, data theft claimed by Play ransomware gang

The Play ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that impacted the business operations of the U.S. doughnut chain Krispy Kreme in November. [...]

Bleeping Computer

7 months ago

Ascension: Health data of 5.6 million stolen in ransomware attack

​Ascension, one of the largest private U.S. healthcare systems, is notifying over 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen in a May cyberattack linked to the Black Basta ransomware operation. [...]

The Hacker News

7 months ago

Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware

The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a "complex infection chain" targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in January 2024. The attacks, which culminated in the deployment of a new modular backdoor referred to as CookiePlus, are

Bleeping Computer

7 months ago

Massive live sports piracy ring with 812 million yearly visits taken offline

​The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has taken down one of the world's largest live sports streaming piracy rings, with over 821 million visits last year. [...]

Have I Been Pwned

7 months ago

French Citizens - 28,445,106 breached accounts

In September 2024, . Compiled from various data breaches, the corpus contained 28M unique email addresses with the various source breaches each exposing different fields including name, physical and IP address, phone number and partial credit card data including payment type and last 4 digits. over 90M rows of data on French Citizens was found left exposed in a publicly facing database

The Hacker News

7 months ago

Sophos Issues Hotfixes for Critical Firewall Flaws: Update to Prevent Exploitation

Sophos has released hotfixes to address three security flaws in Sophos Firewall products that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and allow privileged system access under certain conditions. Of the three, two are rated Critical in severity. There is currently no evidence that the shortcomings have been exploited in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -