Security Stories for 2025

DarkSpectre Hackers Spread Malware To 8.8 Million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Users 12
22 Million Affected By Aflac Data Breach 26
Fake MAS Windows Activation Domain Used To Spread PowerShell Malware 35
Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System 26
Cyberattack Disrupts France's Postal Service, Banking During Christmas Rush 5
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content 37
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 151
SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted 5
China, Iran Are Having a Field Day With React2Shell, Google Warns 30
Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data 10
Security Researcher Found Critical Kindle Vulnerabilities That Allowed Hijacking Amazon Accounts 13
Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech 64
Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text 6
The Data Breach That Hit Two-Thirds of a Country 4
Over 10,000 Docker Hub Images Found Leaking Credentials, Auth Keys 18
AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans 30
New OpenAI Models Likely Pose 'High' Cybersecurity Risk, Company Says 32
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras? 147
Chinese-Linked Hackers Use Backdoor For Potential 'Sabotage,' US and Canada Say 10
Microsoft 'Mitigates' Windows LNK Flaw Exploited As Zero-Day 25
India Pulls Its Preinstalled iPhone App Demand 15
Korea's Coupang Says Data Breach Exposed Nearly 34 Million Customers' Personal Information 2
India Orders Mobile Phones Preloaded With Government App To Ensure Cyber Safety 38
Someone Is Trying To 'Hack' People Through Apple Podcasts 9
US Banks Scramble To Assess Data Theft After Hackers Breach Financial Tech Firm 11
Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Antivirus Monitoring System 49
Microsoft and GitHub Preview New Tool That Identifies, Prioritizes, and Fixes Vulnerabilities With AI 18
Magician Forgets Password To His Own Hand After RFID Chip Implant 42
Cryptographers Cancel Election Results After Losing Decryption Key 52
SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer 16
Google Says Hackers Stole Data From Over 200 Companies Following Gainsight Breach 3
Fired Techie Admits Sabotaging Ex-Employer, Causing $862K In Damage 57
Can Chinese-Made Buses Be Hacked? Norway Drove One Down a Mine To Find Out 52
Gen Z Officially Worse At Passwords Than 80-Year-Olds 97
UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services 28
Security Researchers Spot 150,000 Function-less npm Packages in Automated 'Token Farming' Scheme 11
Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector 32
Logitech Reports Data Breach From Zero-Day Software Vulnerability 5
Hyundai Data Breach May Have Leaked Drivers' Personal Information 54
Germany To Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push 25
Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic's AI To Automate Cyberattacks 15
Iceland Deems Possible Atlantic Current Collapse A Security Risk 62
Google Is Introducing Its Own Version of Apple's Private AI Cloud Compute 23
ClickFix May Be the Biggest Security Threat Your Family Has Never Heard Of 79
A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang 19
US Congressional Budget Office Hit By Suspected Foreign Cyberattack 26
The Louvre's Video Surveillance Password Was 'Louvre' 90
Danish Authorities In Rush To Close Security Loophole In Chinese Electric Buses 43
Data Breach At Major Swedish Software Supplier Impacts 1.5 Million 6
Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers 10
DOJ Accuses US Ransomware Negotiators of Launching Their Own Ransomware Attacks 20
Xi Quips About Backdoors During Xiaomi Phone Gift To Korea's Lee 10
Security Holes Found in OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser (and Perplexity's Comet) 20
OpenAI Launches Aardvark To Detect and Patch Hidden Bugs In Code 26
FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks 47
Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details 56
US Agencies Back Banning Top-Selling Home Routers on Security Grounds 89
Google Chrome Will Finally Default To Secure HTTPS Connections Starting in April 35
Ransomware Profits Drop As Victims Stop Paying Hackers 16
More Than 60 UN Members Sign Cybercrime Treaty Opposed By Rights Groups 12
Microsoft Disables Preview In File Explorer To Block Attacks 49
Are Network Security Devices Endangering Orgs With 1990s-Era Flaws? 57
Hackers Used Thousands of YouTube Videos To Spread Malware 15
OpenBSD 7.8 Released 24
Fake Homebrew Google Ads Push Malware Onto macOS 20
Foreign Hackers Breached a US Nuclear Weapons Plant Via SharePoint Flaws 62
Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials 17
A Plan for Improving JavaScript's Trustworthiness on the Web 48
Extortion and Ransomware Drive Over Half of Cyberattacks — Sometimes Using AI, Microsoft Finds 23
Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication In Zendesk 11
Prosper Data Breach Impacts 17.6 Million Accounts 4
F5 Says Hackers Stole Undisclosed BIG-IP Flaws, Source Code 16
Secure Boot Bypass Risk Threatens Nearly 200,000 Linux Framework Laptops 63
Are AI Agents Compromised By Design? 38
ShinyHunters Leak Alleged Data From Qantas, Vietnam Airlines and Other Major Firms 14
Android 'Pixnapping' Attack Can Capture App Data Like 2FA Codes 17
SonicWall Breach Exposes All Cloud Backup Customers' Firewall Configs 14
Apple Doubles Its Biggest Bug Bounty Reward To $2 Million 13
Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach 48
Teens Arrested In London Preschool Ransomware Attack 16
Security Bug In India's Income Tax Portal Exposed Taxpayers' Sensitive Data 9
Redis Warns of Critical Flaw Impacting Thousands of Instances 3
Are Software Registries Inherently Insecure? 41
Mouse Sensors Can Pick Up Speech From Surface Vibrations, Researchers Show 40
Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought 47
Key Cybersecurity Intelligence-Sharing Law Expires as Government Shuts Down 10
Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives 10
Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress 16
Intel and AMD Trusted Enclaves, a Foundation For Network Security, Fall To Physical Attacks 96
China Hackers Breached Foreign Ministers' Emails, Palo Alto Says 10
Escalation in Akira Campaign Targeting SonicWall VPNs, Deploying Ransomware, With Malicious Logins 6
Chinese Hackers Breach US Software and Law Firms Amid Trade Fight 3
Shoplifters Could Soon Be Chased Down By Drones 144
Neon Goes Dark After Exposing Users' Phone Numbers, Call Recordings, Transcripts 29
Jaguar Land Rover Hack 'Has Cost 30,000 Cars and Threatens Supply Chain' 92
Secure Software Supply Chains, Urges Former Go Lead Russ Cox 19
Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike's 33
This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic 32
Google Shifts Android Security Updates To Risk-Based Triage System 2
UK's Data Watchdog Warns Students Are Breaching Their Schools' IT Systems 56
Apple Claims 'Most Significant Upgrade to Memory Safety' in OS History 39
Thieves Busted After Stealing a Cellphone from a Security Expert's Wife 41
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts At Request of Cybersecurity Agency 77
Wyden Says Microsoft Flaws Led to Hack of US Hospital System 39
Plex Suffers Security Incident Exposing User Data and Urging Password Resets 30
Jaguar Land Rover Extends Shutdown After Cyber Attack 36
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack 47
Chinese Hackers Impersonated US Lawmaker in Email Espionage Campaign 25
First AI-Powered 'Self-Composing' Ransomware Was Actually Just a University Research Project 6
Philips Hue Plans To Make All Your Lights Motion Sensors 24
Cloudflare Stops New World's Largest DDoS Attack Over Labor Day Weekend 21
Frostbyte10 Bugs Put Thousands of Refrigerators At Major Grocery Chains At Risk 43
Hackers Threaten To Submit Artists' Data To AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up 32
WhatsApp Fixes 'Zero-Click' Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware 13
TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers' Personal Information 70
Silver State Goes Dark as Cyberattack Knocks Nevada Websites Offline 19
Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev 58
FBI Warns Chinese Hacking Campaign Has Expanded, Reaching 80 Countries 19
Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1.1 Million People After Salesforce Attack 10
Perplexity's AI Browser Comet Vulnerable To Prompt Injection Attacks That Hijack User Accounts 14
FBI Warns Russian Hackers Targeted 'Thousands' of Critical US Infrastructure IT Systems 69
Amid Service Disruption, Colt Confirms 'Criminal Group' Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It 7
Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China's Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code 15
Dev Gets 4 Years For Creating Kill Switch On Ex-Employer's Systems 113
Intuit Claims Security Concerns In Dropping Windows 10 For TurboTax 114
Male-Oriented App 'TeaOnHer' Also Had Security Flaws That Could Leak Men's Driver's License Photos 112
Android's pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve SESIP Level 5 Security Certification 32
Security Flaws In Carmaker's Web Portal Let a Hacker Remotely Unlock Cars 27
Phishing Training Is Pretty Pointless, Researchers Find 151
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast 18
Russian Hackers Seized Control of Norwegian Dam, Spy Chief Says 42
Plex Users Urged To Update Media Server After Security Flaw Exposed 19
New York Sues Zelle Parent Company, Alleging It Enabled Fraud 28
Sloppy AI Defenses Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say 20
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World 58
How Python is Fighting Open Source's 'Phantom' Dependencies Problem 33
$1M Stolen in 'Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft' Using AI-Generated Code 38
Rust's Annual Tech Report: Trusted Publishing for Packages and a C++/Rust Interop Strategy 25
Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities 17
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' For Enterprise 87
Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent 103
Google Suffers Data Breach in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Attacks 3
Three US Agencies Get Failing Grades For Not Following IT Best Practices 19
CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year 11
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China 27
Despite Breach and Lawsuits, Tea Dating App Surges in Popularity 39
A Luggage Service's Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User 1
In Search of Riches, Hackers Plant 4G-Enabled Raspberry Pi In Bank Network 54
CISA Open-Sources Thorium Platform For Malware, Forensic Analysis 7
Minnesota Activates National Guard After St. Paul Cyberattack 61
A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users' DMs About Abortions and Cheating 117
Cyberattack Cripples Russian Airline Aeroflot 36
Google's New Security Project 'OSS Rebuild' Tackles Package Supply Chain Verification 13
Creator of 1995 Phishing Tool 'AOHell' On Piracy, Script Kiddies, and What He Thinks of AI 14
Did a Vendor's Leak Help Attackers Exploit Microsoft's SharePoint Servers? 22
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted To 4chan 95
DNS Security is Important But DNSSEC May Be a Failed Experiment 71
Microsoft Says Some SharePoint Server Hackers Now Using Ransomware 26
VMware Prevents Some Perpetual License Holders From Downloading Patches 34
After $380 Million Hack, Clorox Sues Its 'Service Desk' Vendor For Simply Giving Out Passwords 89
US Nuclear Weapons Agency 'Among 400 Organizations Breached By Chinese Hackers' 26
At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year's CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds 31
Alaska Airlines Resumes Operations After System Glitch Grounds All Flights 13
Weak Password Allowed Hackers To Sink a 158-Year-Old Company 125
Hackers Exploit a Blind Spot By Hiding Malware Inside DNS Records 49
Microsoft Releases Emergency Patches for Actively Exploited SharePoint Zero-Days 18
'Tens of Thousands' of SharePoint Servers at Risk. Microsoft Issues No Patch 90
Chinese Companies Now Authorized to Conduct Foreign Cyberattacks, Sell Access to Government 57
Google Sues Operators of 10-Million-Device Badbox 2.0 Botnet 14
Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Destroyed Major Russian Drone Maker's Entire Network 274
Google Spots Tailored Backdoor Malware Aimed At SonicWall Appliances 3
Chinese Authorities Are Using a New Tool To Hack Seized Phones and Extract Data 40
AI Creeps Into the Risk Register For America's Biggest Firms 8
Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years 63
NVIDIA Warns Its High-End GPUs May Be Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attacks 15
Qantas Confirms Data Breach Impacts 5.7 Million Customers 4
Russia Blocks Ethical Hacking Legislation Over Security Concerns 7
Jack Dorsey Says His 'Secure' New Bitchat App Has Not Been Tested For Security 37
McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data To Hackers 25
AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs 26
Activision Took Down Call of Duty Game After PC Players Hacked 23
XBOW's AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform 10
Let's Encrypt Rolls Out Free Security Certs For IP Addresses 26
Hacker With 'Political Agenda' Stole Data From Columbia, University Says 28
AT&T Now Lets Customers Lock Down Account To Prevent SIM Swapping Attacks 10
US Government Takes Down Major North Korean 'Remote IT Workers' Operation 59
Microsoft Authenticator Will Stop Supporting Passwords 67
New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language 66
Tech Firms Warn 'Scattered Spider' Hacks Are Targeting Aviation Sector 2
Android 16 Will Tell You When Fake Cell Towers Try To Track Your Phone 51
Brother Printer Bug In 689 Models Exposes Millions To Hacking 54
Microsoft Moves Antivirus Software Out of Windows Kernel To Prevent CrowdStrike-Style Crashes 36
Ubuntu To Disable Intel Graphics Security Mitigations To Boost GPU Performance By Up To 20% 15
Canadian Telecom Hacked By Suspected China State Group 10
Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic 41
Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols 11
The 16-Billion-Record Data Breach That No One's Ever Heard of 34
Hackers Are Turning Tech Support Into a Threat 41
Scammers Use Google Ads To Inject Phony Help Lines On Apple, Microsoft Sites 30
Facebook Now Supports Passkeys 21
That 'Unsubscribe' Button Could Be a Trap, Researchers Warn 73
Apple Previews New Import/Export Feature To Make Passkeys More Interoperable 36
CISA Loses Another Senior Exec 34
Hong Kong Bans Video Game Using National Security Laws 40
Trump Quietly Throws Out Biden's Cyber Policies 109
Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack 10
A Researcher Figured Out How To Reveal Any Phone Number Linked To a Google Account 17
Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight 34
FBI: BadBox 2.0 Android Malware Infects Millions of Consumer Devices 8
Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches 11
Meta and Yandex Are De-Anonymizing Android Users' Web Browsing Identifiers 77
Coinbase Breach Linked To Customer Data Leak In India 10
Microsoft, Google, Others Team Up To Standardize Confusing Hacker Group Nicknames 20
Billions of Cookies Up For Grabs As Experts Warn Over Session Security 36
The Hottest New Vibe Coding Startup May Be a Sitting Duck For Hackers 22
ASUS Router Backdoors Affect 9,000 Devices, Persists After Firmware Updates 23
Data Broker Giant LexisNexis Says Breach Exposed Personal Information of Over 364,000 People 48
Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials 15
Cyberattack Surge Creates Opportunity for Insurers, Prompts Rethink on Premiums 22
CISA Loses Nearly All Top Officials 56
Adidas Warns of Data Breach After Customer Service Provider Hack 10
How Many Qubits Will It Take to Break Secure Public Key Cryptography Algorithms? 53
DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs 10
Destructive Malware Available In NPM Repo Went Unnoticed For 2 Years 6
Most AI Chatbots Easily Tricked Into Giving Dangerous Responses, Study Finds 46
Microsoft Says 394,000 Windows Computers Infected By Lumma Malware Globally 29
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS 16
Coinbase Data Breach Will 'Lead To People Dying,' TechCrunch Founder Says 56
Firefox Announces Same-Day Update After Two Minor Pwn2Own Exploits 22
Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue 69
Broadcom Employee Data Stolen By Ransomware Crooks Following Hit on Payroll Provider 14
FBI: US Officials Targeted In Voice Deepfake Attacks Since April 8
Coinbase Offers $20 Million Bounty To Catch Data Thieves After Extortion Attempt 17
'Aggressive' Hackers of UK Retailers Are Now Targeting US Stores, Says Google 9
Marks and Spencer Confirms Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Data; Cyber Insurance Payout To Be Worth Up To $133 Million 14
'Qatar's $400 Million Jet For Trump Is a Gold-Plated Security Nightmare' 232
Google Wants To Make Stolen Android Phones Basically Unsellable 44
Over 3,200 Cursor Users Infected by Malicious Credential-Stealing npm Packages 30
Chinese Hackers Exploit SAP NetWeaver RCE Flaw 5
Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server? 12
CISA/DOGE Software Engineer's Login Credentials Appeared in Multiple Leaks From Info-Stealing Malware in Recent Years 93
Police Dismantles Botnet Selling Hacked Routers As Residential Proxies 16
Education Giant Pearson Hit By Cyberattack Exposing Customer Data 7
Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports 26
CISA Budget Faces Possible $500 Million Cut 50
Messaging App Used by Mike Waltz, Trump Deportation Airline GlobalX Both Hacked in Separate Breaches 40
Hundreds of E-Commerce Sites Hacked In Supply-Chain Attack 16
May is 'Maintainer Month'. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security 6
Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Disney's Slack Data 32
Microsoft Appoints Deputy CISO For Europe To Reassure European IT leaders 19

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