Threatline

Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/14/2025, 5:34:51 PM

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Hackers are exploiting critical flaw in vBulletin forum software

Two critical vulnerabilities affecting the open-source forum software vBulletin have been discovered, with one confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. [...]

The Register

1 month ago

ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack

Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…

Dark Reading

1 month ago

FBI Warns of Filipino Tech Company Running Sprawling Crypto Scams

The US Treasury said cryptocurrency investment schemes like the ones facilitated by Funnull Technology Inc. have cost Americans billions of dollars annually.

Bleeping Computer

1 month ago

Microsoft now testing Notepad text formatting in Windows 11

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. [...]

The Register

1 month ago

Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park.…

The Register

1 month ago

US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks.…

Bleeping Computer

2 months ago

Police takes down AVCheck antivirus site used by cybercriminals

An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. [...]

The Register

2 months ago

Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries, eight years after firing the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.…

Bleeping Computer

2 months ago

Getting Exposure Management Right: Insights from 500 CISOs

Pentesting isn't just about finding flaws — it's about knowing which ones matter. Pentera's 2025 State of Pentesting report uncovers which assets attackers target most, where security teams are making progress, and which exposures still fly under the radar. Focus on reducing breach impact, not just breach count. [...]

Bleeping Computer

2 months ago

Germany doxxes Conti ransomware and TrickBot ring leader

The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) claims that Stern, the leader of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is a 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev. [...]