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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/15/2025, 6:14:37 AM

The Register

6 months ago

Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing

Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it’s finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom.…

The Hacker News

6 months ago

CISA Flags Critical Flaws in Mitel and Oracle Systems Amid Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three flaws impacting Mitel MiCollab and Oracle WebLogic Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-41713 (CVSS score: 9.1) - A path traversal vulnerability in Mitel MiCollab that could allow an attacker

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts

Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school districts using its PowerSchool SIS platform. [...]

The Register

6 months ago

FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit

Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security The outgoing boss of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, has called on her colleagues to "quickly" adopt rules allowing the US regulator to stage a radio spectrum auction, the proceeds of which would fund the removal from American networks of equipment made by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE.…

Krebs on Security

6 months ago

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices.

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Sharing of Telegram User Data Surged After CEO Arrest

Until September 2024, the encrypted messaging service acceded to 14 requests for user data from the US; that number jumped to 900 after its CEO was detained by French authorities in August.

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Casio says data of 8,500 people exposed in October ransomware attack

Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio says that the October 2024 ransomware incident exposed the personal data of approximately 8,500 people. [...]

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Pentagon Adds Chinese Gaming Giant Tencent to Federal Ban

The sprawling social media and gaming platform says that being considered a Chinese military business must be a mistake.

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

New Mirai botnet targets industrial routers with zero-day exploits

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

BIOS flaws expose iSeq DNA sequencers to bootkit attacks

BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities in the iSeq 100 DNA sequencer from U.S. biotechnology company Illumina could let attackers disable devices used for detecting illnesses and developing vaccines. [...]