“IntelBroker” was arrested in France in February, 2025, but news of his arrest was first disclosed today by French authorities. Now the U.S. is revealing its charges against him as they seek his extradition from France. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, this press release: Kai West, a British…
Microsoft is calling attention to a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT that it said employs advanced techniques to sidestep detection and persist within target environments with an ultimate aim to steal sensitive data. The malware contains capabilities to “steal information from the target system, such as credentials stored in the browser, digital wallet…
Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information….
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two high-severity security flaws impacting Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS and Commvault Web Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-1976 (CVSS score: 8.6) – A code injection…
Nate Raymond reports: A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and school districts into paying ransoms. Matthew Lane, 19, entered into a plea deal on Tuesday to resolve charges filed…
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: Someone claiming to represent the BianLian ransomware group is sending top executives from various organizations snail-mail extortion letters informing them that their IT network has been compromised and threatening to delete or leak sensitive company data. Sending physical letters through the mail system is an unusual move for a cybercriminal group, which typically sends…
Austrian privacy non-profit None of Your Business (noyb) has filed complaints accusing companies like TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi of violating data protection regulations in the European Union by unlawfully transferring users’ data to China. The advocacy group is seeking an immediate suspension of such transfers, stating the companies in question cannot shield…
