Die Linke German political party confirms data stolen by Qilin ransomware
The Qilin ransomware group has stolen data from Die Linke, a German democratic socialist political party, and is threatening to leak it. On March 27, a day after the threat actor compromised its network, the party disclosed a cyber incident but stopped short of confirming a data breach. Founded in 2007, the Die Linke (Left […]
Microsoft links Classic Outlook issue to email delivery problems
Microsoft is investigating a known issue that prevents some Classic Outlook users from sending emails via Outlook.com. Affected users are being warned that their message hasn’t reached some intended recipients, and they will encounter this problem more often when the Outlook.com account they use to send email is an Outlook profile linked to another Exchange […]
Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances still exposed to RCE attacks
Internet threat-monitoring non-profit Shadowserver has found over 14,000 BIG-IP APM instances exposed online amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is F5’s centralized access management proxy solution designed to help admins secure access to their organizations’ networks, cloud, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). […]
Microsoft still working to fix Exchange Online mailbox access issues
Microsoft is investigating and working to resolve Exchange Online mailbox access issues that have intermittently affected Outlook mobile and macOS users for weeks. When it first acknowledged this service issue (tracked under EX1256020) last week, Microsoft said the root cause was a newly introduced virtual account. While the company flagged it as resolved on April 1, […]
Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. According to court documents, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, remotely accessed the company’s network without authorization using an administrator […]
Microsoft now force upgrades unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 PCs
Starting this week, Microsoft has begun force-upgrading unmanaged devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions to Windows 11 25H2. According to the company’s Lifecycle Policy site, Windows 11 24H2 will reach end of support in roughly six months, on October 13, 2026. Also known as the Windows 11 2025 Update, Windows 11 25H2 began rolling […]
CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities
The European Union’s Cybersecurity Service (CERT-EU) has attributed the European Commission cloud hack to the TeamPCP threat group, saying the resulting breach exposed the data of at least 29 other Union entities. The European Commission publicly disclosed the incident on March 27 after GeekFeed reached out for confirmation that the Amazon cloud environment of the European Union’s main executive […]
Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub
Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute coding tasks directly in the terminal and act as an autonomous agent, capable of direct system interaction, LLM API call handling, MCP […]
Drift loses $280 million North Korean hackers seize Security Council powers
The Drift Protocol lost at least $280 million after a threat actor took control of its Security Council administrative powers in a planned, sophisticated operation. Blockchain intelligence firms Elliptic and TRM Labs linked the attacks to North Korean threat actors, based on multiple on-chain indicators consistent with DPRK tradecraft. These include Tornado Cash usage, CarbonVote deployment timing (09:30 Pyongyang time), cross-chain […]
Residential proxies evaded IP reputation checks in 78% of 4B sessions
Researchers warn that residential proxies used to route malicious traffic are a big problem for IP reputation systems, as there is no clear distinction between attackers and legitimate users. This occurs because residential proxies are too short-lived, uninvolved, or systematically rotated, preventing defense systems from cataloging them in time. Cybersecurity intelligence platform GreyNoise determined this after examining a […]