Threatline

Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/13/2025, 10:43:39 PM

Dark Reading

1 month ago

Open-Weight Chinese AI Models Drive Privacy Innovation in LLMs

Edge computing and stricter regulations may usher in a new era of AI privacy.

The Register

1 month ago

Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable

To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools.…

The Hacker News

1 month ago

Scattered Spider: Understanding Help Desk Scams and How to Defend Your Organization

In the wake of high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op, Scattered Spider has been all over the media, with coverage spilling over into the mainstream news due to the severity of the disruption caused — currently looking like hundreds of millions in lost profits for M&S alone. This coverage is extremely valuable for the cybersecurity community as it raises

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Android malware Crocodilus adds fake contacts to spoof trusted callers

The latest version of the 'Crocodilus' Android malware has introduced a new mechanism that adds a fake contact on the infected device's contact list to deceive victims. [...]

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Google patches new Chrome zero-day bug exploited in attacks

Google has released an emergency security update to fix the third Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year. [...]

The Register

1 month ago

Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion

Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems.…

The Hacker News

1 month ago

Android Trojan Crocodilus Now Active in 8 Countries, Targeting Banks and Crypto Wallets

A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America. The malware, according to a new report published by ThreatFabric, has also adopted improved obfuscation techniques to hinder analysis and detection, and includes the ability to create new contacts in the victim's contacts list. "Recent

The Hacker News

1 month ago

Microsoft and CrowdStrike Launch Shared Threat Actor Glossary to Cut Attribution Confusion

Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced that they are teaming up to align their individual threat actor taxonomies by publishing a new joint threat actor mapping. "By mapping where our knowledge of these actors align, we will provide security professionals with the ability to connect insights faster and make decisions with greater confidence," Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president at Microsoft

The Hacker News

1 month ago

Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues

Google has revealed that it will no longer trust digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock citing "patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year." The changes are expected to be introduced in Chrome 139, which is scheduled for public release in early August 2025. The current major version is 137. The update will affect all Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Have I Been Pwned

1 month ago

ColoCrossing - 7,183 breached accounts

In May 2025, . ColoCrossing advised the incident was isolated to their cloud/VPS platform and stemmed from a single sign-on vulnerability. 7k email addresses were exposed in the incident along with names and MD5-Crypt password hashes. hosting provider ColoCrossing identified a data breach that impacted customers of their ColoCloud virtual server product