Mikael Thalen reports: Personal information about nearly 10,000 employees and outside contractors and contributors at The Washington Post was exposed after the newspaper fell victim to a data breach. Analysis of the hacked data by Straight Arrow News indicates that high-profile individuals, including former national security advisor John Bolton, are among those affected. The Post says…
For some perspective on the numbers affected by breaches over time, Emma Woollacott reports: Around seven British user accounts were breached every minute during the second quarter of 2025 – more than three million in total. While data breaches dropped globally by 58% from the previous quarter, the number rose from 70 million to 94…
Chad Van Alstin reports: Healthcare Interactive, a company that develops AI-based medical insurance benefit enrollment and billing solutions, confirmed last week that it experienced a data breach that involved personal data from customers being moved offsite by hackers. The exact number of impacted individuals was not revealed. However, the company said stolen data included names,……
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a security update to address an important vulnerability in its Tomcat server software that could result in remote code execution (RCE) under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-56337, has been described as an incomplete mitigation for CVE-2024-50379 (CVSS score: 9.8), another critical security flaw in the same…
Sophos X-Ops explores a malvertising campaign that leverages Google Ads to distribute an infostealer Categories: Threat Research Tags: TamperedChef, EvilAI, infostealer, Sophos X-Ops
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two new Android malware families dubbed FvncBot and SeedSnatcher, as another upgraded version of ClayRat has been spotted in the wild. The findings come from Intel 471, CYFIRMA, and Zimperium, respectively. FvncBot, which masquerades as a security app developed by mBank, targets mobile banking users in Poland. What’s notable…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24054 (CVSS score: 6.5), is a Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hash disclosure
