Category: CYBER SECURITY

The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has fined MediaLab, the owner of Imgur, £247,590 for serious failures in protecting children’s personal information.

A fresh wave of spam is once again flooding inboxes worldwide, with users reporting hundreds of automated emails generated through unsecured customer support portals powered by Zendesk.

Substack has begun notifying some users that their email addresses and phone numbers were exposed in a security incident last year.

Coupang has confirmed a fresh discovery linked to last year’s massive data breach, saying personal information from more than 165,000 customer accounts was exposed.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a five-year-old GitLab vulnerability is now being actively exploited and has ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch affected systems immediately.

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team has warned that Russian state-linked hackers are actively exploiting a recently patched zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office to target government and institutional users.

Notepad++ users may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update after the app’s shared hosting servers were compromised last year, according to a new disclosure from the software’s developer.

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized three U.S.-registered internet domains accused of illegally distributing copyrighted content.

Illegal cryptocurrency activity surged to an all-time high in 2025, reaching an estimated $158 billion, according to a new report from TRM Labs.

A China-based manga piracy network led by Bato.to, one of the world’s largest scanlation platforms, has been forced to shut down after a criminal complaint was filed with Chinese authorities, according to multiple reports.

Several major tech and data platforms, including Bumble, Match Group, and Crunchbase, were recently targeted in cyberattacks, according to a Bloomberg News report.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform widely used to advertise malware, hacking services, and ransomware operations.

Hackers have stolen personal and contact information linked to over 29.8 million user accounts after breaching the systems of SoundCloud, according to disclosures from the company and independent breach investigators.

A federal grand jury in Nebraska has charged 31 additional defendants for their alleged roles in a large-scale ATM jackpotting operation tied to the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.

Multiple threat actors, including state-sponsored groups and financially motivated cybercriminals, are actively exploiting a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088, according to new findings from the Google Threat Intelligence Group.

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates to fix a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is actively being exploited in real-world attacks.

South Korean police believe that personal information from more than 30 million users of Coupang may have been leaked, far exceeding the company’s earlier claim that only a few thousand accounts were affected.

A lawsuit filed in the United States has accused Meta of misleading users about WhatsApp’s privacy protections.

Security researchers have observed active attacks targeting a critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server that remained undiscovered for more than a decade.