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A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States last year has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that 44-year-old Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks conducted between 2021 and […]
More than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) are distributing a Linux rootkit and infostealer malware targeting credentials and access tokens. A report from the open-source intelligence community Independent Federated Intelligence Network (IFIN) notes that a new maintainer is spoofing a trusted publisher on the AUR platform to push infected packages. The Arch […]
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused Windows updates released since May 2025 to fail when installed via the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) from a network share. WUSA is a built-in Windows command-line tool that helps admins install and uninstall Microsoft Standalone Update (.msu) files through the Windows Update Agent API to deploy […]
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulin, disclosed a data breach affecting patient information from some clinical trials. Founded in 1923, Novo Nordisk now employs around 67,900 people across 80 offices worldwide and is the maker of viral GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The company revealed on Thursday that attackers gained access […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the newly issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04. Tracked as CVE-2026-10520, this maximum-severity vulnerability was found in Ivanti’s security gateway appliance (formerly known as MobileIron Sentry) and stems from an OS […]
The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. DINUM, theĀ French government’s digital affairs directorate,Ā disclosed on MondayĀ thatĀ a threat actor gained access to the Tchap platform using a compromised user account and notified France’s data protection authority (CNIL) due to the […]
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has disclosed a physical security incident that affects private data of more than 10Ā million customers. In an official announcement, the company explains that the IT staff regularly performs backups to manage server storage. Due to capacity constraints, on April 27 an external storage device was used for the task. The drive […]
In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maineās official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting companies to deny the claims. A notice allegedly filed by multiplayer social virtual reality platform VRChat is the most recent entry in the state Attorney General’s breach disclosure database. […]
Oracle is warning about a critical PeopleSoft Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-35273 that allows unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in ShinyHunter data theft attacks. The flaw is within Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools and has a CVSS base score of 9.8. “This Security Alert addresses vulnerability CVE-2026-35273 in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools. Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications […]
Law enforcement has dismantled the āAudiA6ā cryptocurrency service allegedly used by ransomware actors and other cybercriminals to launder more than $380 million. Europol says that the service has been linked to more than 15 distinct international investigations of ransomware attacks. It is believed that the platform acted as a central money laundering hub between 2022 and 2025. […]
