The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions (CDS) from selling location data without consumers’ explicit consent to settle charges brought nearly four years ago. The FTCĀ sued Idaho-based Kochava in August 2022, alleging it collected and sold precise geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. […]
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Vimeo is a video hosting and streaming platform publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market, with over 300 million registered users and over 1,100 […]
Google overhauls its Android and Chrome vulnerability rewards programs, offering bounties of up to $1.5 million for the most difficult exploits while scaling back payouts for flaws that artificial intelligence (AI) has made easier to find. The top reward of $1.5 million is reserved for zero-click Pixel Titan M2 security chip full-chain exploits with persistence, […]
A Latvian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for his “cold case” negotiator role in the Russian Karakurt ransomware group. 35-year-old Deniss Zolotarjovs (ŠŠµŠ½ŠøŃŃ ŠŠ¾Š»Š¾ŃŠ°ŃŃŠ²Ń) of Moscow, Russia, was arrested in Georgia, Eastern Europe, in December 2023, and pleaded guilty in July 2025 to conspiracy to commit wire […]
A new version of the CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) is deploying a previously unseen malicious plugin called Pheno that hijacks the Microsoft Phone Link connection to steal sensitive codes from mobile devices. The malware was discovered in an intrusion that was active since at least January and researchers believe the threat actor’s purpose was […]
The North Korean hacker group APT37 has been delivering an Android version of a backdoor called BirdCall in a supply-chain attack through a video game platform. While BirdCall is a known backdoor for Windows systems, APT37, also known as ScarCruft and Ricochet Chollima, has developed a variant for Android that doubles as spyware. According to […]
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679) in the Weaver E-cology office automation since mid-March to run discovery commands. The attacks started five days after the software vendor released a security update to address the issue, and two weeks before disclosing it publicly. Researchers at threat intelligence company Vega documented the malicious activity and […]
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reports that the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being increasingly abusedĀ to send convincing phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks ineffective. Although the resource has beenĀ leveraged for malicious activityĀ in the past, Kaspersky says the current spike may be due to a large number of AWS Identity […]
A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services. The developer disclosed the supply-chain attack on April 30, saying that version 2.6.3 of the package included a hidden execution chain that downloads and executes a JavaScript payload. PyTorch […]
Cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to “a portion” of its source code repository. Trellix is a global cybersecurity company formed from the October 2021 merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye. It provides services to over 50,000 business and government customers worldwide, protecting more than 200 million endpoints. According to […]
