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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/13/2025, 9:40:07 AM

Dark Reading

1 month ago

LummaC2 Fractures as Acreed Malware Becomes Top Dog

LummaC2 formerly accounted for almost 92% of Russian Market's credential theft log alerts. Now, the Acreed infostealer has replaced its market share.

Dark Reading

1 month ago

Chrome Drops Trust for Chunghwa, Netlock Certificates

Digital certificates authorized by the authorities will no longer have trust by default in the browser starting in August, over what Google said is a loss of integrity in actions by the respective companies.

Dark Reading

1 month ago

LummaC2 Operations Fracture as 'Acreed' Malware Becomes Top Dog

LummaC2 formerly accounted for almost 92% of Russian Market's credential theft log alerts. Now, the Acreed infostealer has replaced its market share.

The Register

1 month ago

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there's reason to doubt what's been said. …

The Register

1 month ago

Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins

Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere.…

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Coinbase breach tied to bribed TaskUs support agents in India

A recently disclosed data breach at Coinbase has been linked to India-based customer support representatives from outsourcing firm TaskUs, who threat actors bribed to steal data from the crypto exchange. [...]

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Microsoft adds quick machine recovery to Windows 11 settings

Microsoft is testing a dedicated page in Windows Settings for quick machine recovery, which will provide users with additional configuration options. [...]

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Malicious RubyGems pose as Fastlane to steal Telegram API data

Two malicious RubyGems packages posing as popular Fastlane CI/CD plugins redirect Telegram API requests to attacker-controlled servers to intercept and steal data. [...]

The Hacker News

1 month ago

Fake DocuSign, Gitcode Sites Spread NetSupport RAT via Multi-Stage PowerShell Attack

Threat hunters are alerting to a new campaign that employs deceptive websites to trick unsuspecting users into executing malicious PowerShell scripts on their machines and infect them with the NetSupport RAT malware. The DomainTools Investigations (DTI) team said it identified "malicious multi-stage downloader Powershell scripts" hosted on lure websites that masquerade as Gitcode and DocuSign. "

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Mozilla launches new system to detect Firefox crypto drainer add-ons

Mozilla has developed a new security feature for its add-on portal that helps block Firefox malicious extensions that drain cryptocurrency wallets. [...]