Latest news as of 6/9/2025, 3:28:13 PM
The Register
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
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
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
Microsoft is testing a dedicated page in Windows Settings for quick machine recovery, which will provide users with additional configuration options. [...]
Bleeping Computer
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
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
Mozilla has developed a new security feature for its add-on portal that helps block Firefox malicious extensions that drain cryptocurrency wallets. [...]
Dark Reading
If your CISO isn't wielding influence with the CEO and helping top leaders clearly see the flight path ahead, your company is dangerously exposed.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw in the Roundcube webmail software that has gone unnoticed for a decade and could be exploited to take over susceptible systems and execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49113, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of post-authenticated remote code execution via
Bleeping Computer
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