Latest news as of 8/20/2025, 2:25:13 AM
Dark Reading
The fall of RansomHub led to a major consolidation of the ransomware ecosystem last quarter, which was a boon for the DragonForce and Qilin gangs.
The Register
Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the company knew about but never bothered to fix.…
Dark Reading
The ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3.5TB of data, and told the technology distributor to pay up or suffer a data breach.
Bleeping Computer
Cybersecurity professionals and researchers can now launch Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia using Apple's new containerization framework. [...]
Check Point Research
Key Findings Introduction Check Point Research (CPR) has been closely monitoring the ongoing exploitation of a group of Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerabilities collectively referred to as “ToolShell.” These active attacks leverage four vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-53770, and CVE-2025-53771—and are attributed to multiple China affiliated threat actors. Among the threat groups identified by Microsoft, two are known […] The post appeared first on . Before ToolShell: Exploring Storm-2603’s Previous Ransomware Operations Check Point Research
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. [...]
The Hacker News
The Russian nation-state threat actor known as Secret Blizzard has been observed orchestrating a new cyber espionage campaign targeting foreign embassies located in Moscow by means of an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attack at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and delivering a custom malware dubbed ApolloShadow. "ApolloShadow has the capability to install a trusted root certificate to
The Register
No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.…
Dark Reading
To reposition cybersecurity as a strategic, business-critical investment, CFOs and CISOs play a critical role in articulating the significant ROI that robust security measures can deliver.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities. [...]