Belgian News Agency reports: A DDoS cyberattack briefly disrupted the websites of Belgian telecom operators Proximus and Scarlet on Wednesday morning. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. Ghent University Hospital was also hit by a DDoS attack around the same time. Proximus spokesperson Fabrice Gansbeke confirmed that technicians detected…
The financially motivated threat actor known as EncryptHub has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware, while also working on a new product called EncryptRAT. “EncryptHub has been observed targeting users of popular applications, by distributing trojanized versions,” Outpost24 KrakenLabs said in a new report shared with The
Jonathan Greig reports: Federal civilian agencies have until September 25 to patch a vulnerability in popular content management system Sitecore after incident responders said they disrupted a recent attack involving the bug. Sitecore published a bulletin on Wednesday about CVE-2025-53690, which affects several of the company’s products. A key issue with the bug is the use of……
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Spanish law enforcement has arrested a 19-year-old man in northeastern Spain for allegedly stealing and selling about 64 million personal data records siphoned from nine companies, police said on Tuesday. The suspect, detained last week in Igualada, allegedly accessed the systems of several companies to obtain large volumes of personal information — including national……
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LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS users through fake GitHub repositories that distribute malware-laced programs masquerading as legitimate tools. “In the case of LastPass, the fraudulent repositories redirected potential victims to a repository that downloads the Atomic infostealer malware,” researchers Alex Cox, Mike Kosak, and
Martin Fornusek reports: Russian-linked hackers targeted U.K. Defense Ministry staff in an espionage operation while posing as journalists, Sky News reported on May 29, citing the British government. The cyber attack was detected and thwarted, the government said. Speaking to reporters at a government facility where a team had disrupted the Russian-backed operation, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey revealed the…
