PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach. Last week, PornHub disclosed that it was impacted by a recent breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel. Mixpanel suffered a breach on November 8th, 2025, after […]
Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error
Users accessing the SoundCloud audio streaming platform through a virtual private network (VPN) connection are denied access to the service and see a 403 ‘forbidden’ error. SoundCloud is a large audio distribution platform focused on user-uploaded content, built around independent creators rather than licensed music from major labels. It has at least 140 million registered users and 40 […]
700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers
700Credit, a U.S.-based financial services and fintech company, will start notifying more than 5.8 million people that their personal information has been exposed in a data breach incident. The cyberattack occurred after a threat actor had breached one of 700Credit’s integration partners in July and discovered an API for obtaining customer information. However, the partner […]
Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break VPN access for WSL users
Microsoft says that recent Windows 11 security updates are causing VPN networking failures for enterprise users running Windows Subsystem for Linux. This known issue affects users who installed the KB5067036 October 2025 non-security update, released October 28th, or any subsequent updates, including the KB5072033 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. On impacted systems, users are experiencing connectivity […]
Google links more Chinese hacking groups to React2Shell attacks
Over the weekend, Google’s threat intelligence team linked five more Chinese hacking groups to attacks exploiting the maximum-severity “React2Shell” remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-55182, this actively exploited flaw affects the React open-source JavaScript library and allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code in React and Next.js applications with a single HTTP request. While multiple […]
French Interior Ministry confirms cyberattack on email servers
The French Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that the country’s Ministry of the Interior was breached in a cyberattack that compromised e-mail servers. While the attack (detected overnight between Thursday, December 11, and Friday, December 12) allowed the threat actors to gain access to some document files, officials have yet to confirm whether data was […]
Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures
Microsoft has confirmed that the December 2025 security updates are breaking Message Queuing (MSMQ) functionality, affecting enterprise applications and Internet Information Services (IIS) websites. This known issue affects Windows 10 22H2, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016 systems that have installed the KB5071546, KB5071544, and KB5071543 security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. On impacted systems, users […]
Beware: PayPal subscriptions abused to send fake purchase emails
An email scam is abusing abusing PayPal’s “Subscriptions” billing feature to send legitimate PayPal emails that contain fake purchase notifications embedded in the Customer service URL field. Over the past couple of months, people have reported [1, 2] receiving emails from PayPal stating, “Your automatic payment is no longer active.” The email includes a customer service URL field […]
CyberVolk’s ransomware debut stumbles on cryptography weakness
The pro-Russia hacktivist group CyberVolk launched a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called VolkLocker that suffered from serious implementation flaws, allowing victims to potentially decrypt files for free. According to SentinelOne researchers who examined the new ransomware family, the encryptor uses a hardcoded master key in the binary, which is also written in plaintext in a hidden file on […]
Apple fixes two zero-day flaws exploited in ‘sophisticated’ attacks
Apple has released emergency updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack” targeting specific individuals. The zero-days are tracked as CVE-2025-43529 and CVE-2025-14174 and were both issued in response to the same reported exploitation. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an […]