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Kim Se Un, Jo Kyong Hun and Myong Chol Min are accused of helping North Korea evade U.S. and United Nations sanctions through an IT worker plot that involved tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities.

Law enforcement has seized the dark web leak sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years.

A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory.

ChatGPT Agent is now rolling out to users with $20 Plus subscription, but OpenAI warns that it will take a few days for the rollout to finish.

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The Departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have been impacted.

KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker's infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian…

Fire Ant exploited VMware flaws to breach ESXi and vCenter, targeting isolated systems for persistent access.

Mitel fixes critical MiVoice and MiCollab flaws that allow account access and SQL attacks. Users must update to avoid system compromise.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead CISA told senators Thursday that he would prioritize evicting China from the U.S. supply chain.

Sean Plankey said he would double down on CISA’s core mission and “allow the operators to operate.”

A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title.

Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm Eye Security told Reuters and Bloomberg that hackers have successfully breached at least 400 governments and businesses around the world.

CastleLoader malware infected 469 devices via ClickFix, GitHub, and phishing since May 2025. Malware delivery is evolving fast.

Mitel Networks has released security updates to patch a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability impacting its MiVoice MX-ONE enterprise communications platform.

A large-scale malware campaign known as SarangTrap has been observed using fake dating apps to steal personal data, targeting South Korean users

The US FBI has issued public announcements warning families of The Com, an online criminal network involving minors in various illicit activities

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed five vulnerabilities in Bloomberg Comdb2.   Comdb2 is an open source, high-availability database developed by Bloomberg. It supports features such as clustering, transactions, snapshots, and isolation. The implementation of the database utilizes optimistic locking for concurrent operation. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by the vendor, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability

Sophos and SonicWall patched critical RCE flaws in firewall and SMA 100 products affecting select users.

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A group dubbed 'Fire Ant' is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors, a type of software that controls and hosts virtual machines for enterprise networks.

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Hackers compromised Toptal's GitHub organization account and used their access to publish ten malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (NPM) index.

Microsoft said Chinese actor Storm-2603 is deploying Warlock ransomware following the exploitation of vulnerabilities in on-prem SharePoint systems

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SonicWall addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40599 (CVSS score of 9.1), in SMA 100 appliances

Malwarebytes Trusted Advisor has had an update, and it's now sharper, smarter, and more helpful than ever.

Lower rates for creating unique passwords, buying items from known websites, and using antivirus leave iPhone users at risk to online scams.

Investigators assessed that the criminal group’s stolen funds amount to €580,000

The agency released three bulletins about the group — which is composed primarily of English-speaking minors who focus on attacks like ransomware, swatting and DDoS.