University of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack
The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, UoPX is a private for-profit university with nearly 3,000 academic staff and over 100,000 enrolled students. The university disclosed the data […]
Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras
The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a foreign adult site. Although the suspects or the websites haven’t been named, the police are already taking action against viewers of the illicitly gained content, as well as the operators […]
FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. The agency’s decision comes shortly after the states of California, Connecticut, and New York agreed to settle their legal […]
ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users
OpenAI’s AI-powered ChatGPT is down worldwide with users receiving errors when attempting to access chats, with no reasons currently given. If you are affected, you will see “something seems to have gone wrong,” errors, with ChatGPT adding that “There was an error generating a response” to their queries. In our tests, GeekFeed observed that GPT […]
Shai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets
The second Shai-Hulud attack last week exposed around 400,000 raw secrets after infecting hundreds of packages in the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry and publishing stolen data in 30,000 GitHub repositories. Although just about 10,000 of the exposed secrets were verified as valid by the open-source TruffleHog scanning tool, researchers at cloud security platform Wiz say that […]
Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts
Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities, including threat hunting alerts. According to an admin center service alert (DZ1191468) seen by GeekFeed, this outage may affect customers attempting to access or use features in the Defender portal. The issues are caused by what […]
North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme
In an unprecedented intelligence operation, security researchers exposed how North Korean IT recruiters target and lure developers into renting their identities for illicit fundraising. Famous Chollima (also known as WageMole), part of North Korea’s state-sponsored Lazarus group, is known for social-engineering campaigns to infiltrate Western companies for espionage and revenue generation for the regime. They […]
Google fixes two Android zero days exploited in attacks, 107 flaws
Google has released the December 2025 Android security bulletin, addressing 107 vulnerabilities, including two flaws actively exploited in targeted attacks. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572. They are information disclosure and elevation-of-privilege issues, respectively, affecting Android versions 13 through 16. “There are indications that the following may be under limited, targeted […]
Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
An ongoing phishing campaign impersonates popular brands, such as Unilever, Disney, MasterCard, LVMH, and Uber, in Calendly-themed lures to steal Google Workspace and Facebook business account credentials. Although threat actors targeting business ad manager accounts isn’t new, the campaign discovered by Push Security is highly targeted, with professionally crafted lures that create conditions for high success rates. Access to marketing […]
Microsoft: KB5070311 triggers File Explorer white flash in dark mode
Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems. “After installing KB5070311, you might experience issues when opening File Explorer in dark mode. The window might briefly display a blank white screen before loading files and folders,” Microsoft says in a […]