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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/29/2025, 7:37:02 AM

Dark Reading

8 days ago

Europol Sting Leaves Russian Cybercrime's 'NoName057(16)' Group Fractured

National authorities have issued seven arrest warrants in total relating to the cybercrime collective known as NoName057(16), which recruits followers to carry out DDoS attacks on perceived enemies of Russia.

The Hacker News

8 days ago

China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure

The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region. "The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware," Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. "One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a captive

The Hacker News

8 days ago

Iran-Linked DCHSpy Android Malware Masquerades as VPN Apps to Spy on Dissidents

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new Android spyware artifacts that are likely affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and have been distributed to targets by masquerading as VPN apps and Starlink, a satellite internet connection service offered by SpaceX. Mobile security vendor Lookout said it discovered four samples of a surveillanceware tool it tracks

Bleeping Computer

8 days ago

ExpressVPN bug leaked user IPs in Remote Desktop sessions

ExpressVPN has fixed a flaw in its Windows client that caused Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) traffic to bypass the virtual private network (VPN) tunnel, exposing the users' real IP addresses. [...]

Bleeping Computer

8 days ago

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator users locked out after MFA rollout

Veeam warned customers today that a recently released Recovery Orchestrator version blocks Web UI logins after enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA). [...]

Krebs on Security

8 days ago

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day

On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compromise vulnerable organizations. The patch comes amid reports that malicious hackers have used the Sharepoint flaw to breach U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, and energy companies.

Bleeping Computer

8 days ago

Dior begins sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers

The House of Dior (Dior) is sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers informing them that a May cybersecurity incident compromised their personal information. [...]

Dark Reading

8 days ago

Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited SharePoint ‘ToolShell’ Bug

Malicious actors already have already pounced on the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, to compromise US government agencies and other businesses in ongoing and widespread attacks.

Dark Reading

8 days ago

Containment as a Core Security Strategy

We cannot keep reacting to vulnerabilities as they emerge. We must assume the presence of unknown threats and reduce the blast radius that they can affect.

The Register

8 days ago

Four new Android spyware samples linked to Iran's intel agency

Persians added snooping capabilities to DCHSpy after Israeli bombs fell Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly after the Iran-Israel conflict began.…