From Latvian Public Media: The Kurzeme Regional Court has decided to overturn the acquittal of the District Court and to find guilty an official of a state institution for disclosing confidential information and a board member of a company for inciting a public official to disclose this information, Latvian Television reports on 17 September. Latvian…
The nation-state threat actor known as MirrorFace has been observed deploying malware dubbed ROAMINGMOUSE as part of a cyber espionage campaign directed against government agencies and public institutions in Japan and Taiwan. The activity, detected by Trend Micro in March 2025, involved the use of spear-phishing lures to deliver an updated version of a backdoor…
This will likely come as no surprise to many, but Spiegel International reports: Donald Trump’s most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet. According to…
If this were a poll, DataBreaches would vote “yes.” DataBreaches has never really understood why breach notification letters do not have to reveal the name of a business associate or vendor if the breach occurred on their system. Why shouldn’t business associates or vendors risk the same reputation impact that their clients do? Doesn’t failure……
The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health…
The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Thursday announced that four people have been arrested in connection with cyber attacks targeting major retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods. The arrested individuals include two men aged 19, a third aged 17, and a 20-year-old woman. They were apprehended in the West Midlands and London on…
Divya reports: A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute malicious code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55188, affects all versions of 7-Zip prior to the recently released version 25.01 and stems from improper handling of symbolic links……
