Sergiu Gatlan reports: 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. “Due to malicious employees in partner agencies who broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone, there had been fraud cases due to fictitious contracts or contract changes at…
This year’s first batch of monthly security updates for Android resolves 36 vulnerabilities, including critical remote code execution flaws. The post First Android Update of 2025 Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network. “The campaigns resulted in a multi-stage attack chain targeting Minecraft users specifically,” Check Point researchers Jaromír Hořejší and Antonis Terefos said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The malware was
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that purports to be an application related to the Solana blockchain, but contains malicious functionality to steal source code and developer secrets. The package, named solana-token, is no longer available for download from PyPI, but not before it was downloaded 761…
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting scams that led to massive cryptocurrency losses. The Treasury accused the Taguig-headquartered company of enabling thousands of websites involved in
Daryna Antoniuk reports: A little-known hacking group has emerged as a major threat to Russian state institutions and critical industries, carrying out attacks aimed at causing maximum disruption and extracting financial gain, according to a new report. BO Team, also known as Black Owl, has been active since early 2024 and appears to operate independently,…
A personal message to whatever threat actor or ransomware group hit the New York Blood Center: You are endangering lives, and every day that goes by will put more lives at risk. Do the morally right thing and give them a decryptor now. — Dissent. A statement from the New York Blood Center: January 29:…
