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Man gets over 4 years in prison for selling unreleased movies
A Tennessee court has sentenced a Memphis man who worked for a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company to 57 months in prison for stealing and selling digital copies of unreleased movies. 37-year-old Steven R. Hale was charged in March with selling ripped DVD and Blu-ray discs of movies before their release. Prosecutors stated at the […]
Samsung patches actively exploited zero-day reported by WhatsApp
Samsung has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks targeting its Android devices. Tracked as CVE-2025-21043, this critical security flaw affects Samsung devices running Android 13 or later and was reported by the security teams of Meta and WhatsApp on August 13. As Samsung explains in a recently updated advisory, this […]
Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage affecting users worldwide
Microsoft says that it has mitigated an Exchange Online outage affecting customers worldwide, which blocked their access to emails and calendars. “We’re investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method,” the company said on Thursday morning. According to user reports on DownDetector, the […]
U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held “responsible for its gross cybersecurity negligence, […]
Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks
Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). CERT-FR is operated by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency, and is responsible for preventing and mitigating cybersecurity-related incidents impacting public and critical organizations. According to a Thursday advisory, […]
Panama Ministry of Economy discloses breach claimed by INC ransomware
Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has disclosed that one of its computers may have been compromised in a cyberattack.. The government noted that it activated the security procedures for these situations, stating that the incident has been contained and didn’t impact core systems that are vital to its operations. “The Ministry of Economy and […]
Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats
Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these new warnings for messages containing URLs that have been flagged as spam, phishing, or malware, for all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) and Microsoft Teams enterprise customers. The new link […]
Akira ransomware exploiting critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug again
The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices. The hackers are leverging the security issue to gain access to target networks via unpatched SonicWall SSL VPN endpoints. SonicWall released a patch for CVE-2024-40766 last year in August, marking it as actively exploited. The flaw allows unauthorized resource […]
New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs
A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern AMD or Intel CPUs. The attack breaks the isolation between VMs and the cloud hypervisor, bypassing existing Spectre mitigations and threatening to leak sensitive data by leveraging speculative execution. The […]
DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack
A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs and MikroTik routers, and it was mitigated by FastNetMon, a company that offers protection against service disruptions. “The attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) — one […]