Michael Kan reports: National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone’s personal information. The site shut down in December amid a wave of lawsuits against parent company Jericho Pictures after a breach exposed an estimated 272 million unique SSNs and…
Citing a July 30 report in The Hacker News, SC Media reports: Following recent arrests of alleged Scattered Spider members in the UK, Google Cloud’s Mandiant Consulting has reported a noticeable pause in the group’s activities, offering a “critical window of opportunity” for organizations to bolster their defenses, reports The Hacker News. THN had reported,…
The threat actor known as Lotus Panda has been observed targeting government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and media sectors in the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with updated versions of a known backdoor called Sagerunex. “Lotus Blossom has been using the Sagerunex backdoor since at least 2016 and is increasingly employing long-term persistence command shells and…
Safe{Wallet} has revealed that the cybersecurity incident that led to the Bybit $1.5 billion crypto heist is a “highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack,” stating the North Korean threat actors behind the hack took steps to erase traces of the malicious activity in an effort to hamper investigation efforts. The multi-signature (multisig) platform, which has roped in…
Frederick Sutton Sinclair of CBS reports: The University of Pennsylvania is investigating a vulgar email that was sent to members of its campus community. Penn told CBS News Philadelphia that it was not hacked, but the university is working to find the source of the fraudulent email. The email’s subject line read “We Got Hacked”……
Threat actors are leveraging an e-crime tool called Atlantis AIO Multi-Checker to automate credential stuffing attacks, according to findings from Abnormal Security. Atlantis AIO “has emerged as a powerful weapon in the cybercriminal arsenal, enabling attackers to test millions of stolen credentials in rapid succession,” the cybersecurity company said in an analysis. Credential stuffing is…
Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended off the previous quarter. “Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed,” Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. “Cloudflare blocked over 6,500 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, an average…
