Latest news as of 6/8/2025, 8:43:38 AM
The Hacker News
An Iran-aligned hacking group has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in early 2024. The activity is tied to a threat group ESET tracks as BladedFeline, which is assessed with medium confidence to be a sub-cluster within OilRig, a known Iranian nation-state cyber actor. It's said to be active since September 2017, when it targeted
The Hacker News
Security teams face growing demands with more tools, more data, and higher expectations than ever. Boards approve large security budgets, yet still ask the same question: what is the business getting in return? CISOs respond with reports on controls and vulnerability counts – but executives want to understand risk in terms of financial exposure, operational impact, and avoiding loss. The
Bleeping Computer
The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company's German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. [...]
The Hacker News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of cryptocurrency funds and about 145 clearnet and dark web domains associated with an illicit carding marketplace called BidenCash. "The operators of the BidenCash marketplace use the platform to simplify the process of buying and selling stolen credit cards and associated personal information," the DoJ said. "BidenCash
The Register
It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really! The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…
Bleeping Computer
Two members of a group of cybercriminals named ViLE were sentenced this week for hacking into a federal law enforcement web portal in an extortion scheme. [...]
Dark Reading
ESET published research on the Iranian APT "BladedFeline," which researchers believe is a subgroup of the cyber-espionage entity APT34.
Bleeping Computer
The Interlock ransomware gang has claimed a recent cyberattack on the Kettering Health healthcare network and leaked data allegedly stolen from breached systems. [...]
The Register
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010 A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…
Bleeping Computer
The U.S. Department of State has announced a reward of up to $10 million for any information on government-sponsored hackers with ties to the RedLine infostealer malware operation and its suspected creator, Russian national Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov. [...]