Nation-state groups hit hundreds of organizations with Microsoft Windows zero-day

Trend Micro researchers discovered and reported the eight-year-old defect to Microsoft six months ago. The company hasn’t made any commitments to patch or remediate the issue.

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Infostealers fueled cyberattacks and snagged 2.1B credentials last year

Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint.

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Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

The latest smishing scam follows a familiar process as ones the industry has seen over the past decade.

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Lazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages

Socket researchers said the malware-ridden packages were collectively downloaded over 330 times. GitHub removed all of the malicious packages Wednesday.

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Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

More than three-quarters of the vulnerabilities covered in the vendor’s monthly Patch Tuesday update are high-severity flaws.

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X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.

X’s wave of outages resembled a DDoS attack and Dark Storm Team, a prolific threat group specializing in such attacks, claimed responsibility.

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New York sues Allstate and subsidiaries for back-to-back data breaches

A pair of data breaches in late 2020 and early 2021 exposed driver’s license numbers of almost 200,000 people.

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Ransomware poseurs are trying to extort businesses through physical letters

The FBI is warning business leaders about the scam perpetrated by an unidentified threat group.

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Silk Typhoon shifted to specifically targeting IT management companies

The Chinese state-backed espionage group started targeting third-party IT services in late 2024, Microsoft researchers said.

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US indicts 12 Chinese nationals for vast espionage attack spree

A flurry of unsealed indictments reveal China’s alleged well-coordinated effort to use a hacker-for-hire ecosystem to conduct espionage while obscuring the government’s direct involvement.

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