Iran-linked hackers threaten to release emails allegedly stolen from Trump associates

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Rebecca Falconer reports: An Iran-linked cyberattack group that hacked President Trump’s 2024 campaign is threatening to release another trove of emails it has [allegedly] stolen from his associates, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Roger Stone. The big picture: Reuters first reported the threat on Monday that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on X called a “calculated smear…

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Over 3 million applicants’ data leaked on NYU’s website

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Dharma Niles, Krish Dev and Yezen Saadah report: A hacker took over NYU’s website for at least two hours Saturday morning to expose over 3 million applicants’ names, test scores, majors and zip codes, as well as information related to family members and financial aid dating back to at least 1989. The university’s website was…

Texas Man Convicted of Sabotaging his Employer’s Computer Systems and Deleting Data

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There’s an update to an indictment announced by the DOJ in April 2021.  In today’s reminder of the insider threat, DOJ announced: A federal jury in Cleveland convicted a Texas man today for writing and deploying malicious code on his former employer’s network. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Davis Lu, 55,…

Russian hospital programmer gets 14 years for leaking soldier data to Ukraine

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Daryna Antoniuk reports: A Russian court sentenced a former hospital programmer to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for allegedly leaking personal data of Russian soldiers to Ukraine, authorities said. The court in the Russian Irkutsk region found 37-year-old Alexander Levchishin guilty of treason after he copied electronic medical records of Russian military personnel from…

New Veeam Flaw Allows Arbitrary Code Execution via Man-in-the-Middle Attack

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Veeam has released patches to address a critical security flaw impacting its Backup software that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-23114, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. “A vulnerability within the Veeam Updater component that allows an attacker to utilize a Man-in-the-Middle…

Malicious Python Packages on PyPI Downloaded 39,000+ Times, Steal Sensitive Data

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to steal sensitive information. Two of the packages, bitcoinlibdbfix and bitcoinlib-dev, masquerade as fixes for recent issues detected in a legitimate Python module called bitcoinlib, according to ReversingLabs. A third package discovered by Socket, disgrasya, contained a

North Korean Hackers Spread Malware via Fake Crypto Firms and Job Interview Lures

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North Korea-linked threat actors behind the Contagious Interview have set up front companies as a way to distribute malware during the fake hiring process. “In this new campaign, the threat actor group is using three front companies in the cryptocurrency consulting industry—BlockNovas LLC (blocknovas[.] com), Angeloper Agency (angeloper[.]com), and SoftGlide LLC (softglide[.]co)—to spread