Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud Summary Orange Belgium has confirmed a data theft affecting around 850,000 customer accounts after an intrusion at the end of July.…
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets Summary RapperBot (aka Eleven Eleven Botnet or CowBot), a Mirai-derived DDoS-for-hire operation blamed for hundreds of thousands of attacks,…
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Summary Apple has released emergency updates to address CVE-2025-43300, an out‑of‑bounds write vulnerability in the ImageIO framework used to…
‘Impersonation as a service’ the next big thing in cybercrime Summary Underground cybercrime forums are actively recruiting English-speaking social engineers and offering turnkey packages that bundle training, scripts, tools and…
Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers Summary Representative David Schweikert (R‑Arizona) introduced the “Scam Farms Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025,” a bill that would…
Microsoft reportedly cuts China’s early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code Summary Microsoft has reportedly restricted some Chinese companies’ early access to detailed vulnerability disclosures and proof‑of‑concept (PoC) exploit…
Developer jailed for taking down employer’s network with kill switch malware Summary A former Eaton senior developer, Davis Lu (55), has been sentenced to four years in prison after installing…
Don’t cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms Summary The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has written to a list of major US…
Microsoft puts the squeeze on onmicrosoft.com freeloaders Summary Microsoft has announced limits on emails sent from the shared onmicrosoft.com (and regional equivalents) domains to curb spam originating from newly created…
Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware Summary Microsoft’s security team has published a detailed analysis of “ClickFix”, a social‑engineering technique that disguises malicious instructions as CAPTCHA or other…
