#StopRansomware: Interlock

Since September 2024, Interlock ransomware actors have impacted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors in North America and Europe. These actors are opportunistic and financially motivated in nature and employ tactics to infiltrate and disrupt the victim’s Read More …

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP – a Northamptonshire transport company – is just one of tens of thousands Read More …

Microsoft releases urgent SharePoint security flaw patches

Microsoft has released an urgent patch to fix a zero-day vulnerability affecting on-premises SharePoint servers. The vulnerability is already being exploited in the wild, which is why users are urged to apply the patch immediately and secure their assets. Three Read More …

Hong Kong’s PCPD launches investigation into LVHK data breach case

French luxury brand Louis Vuitton recently reported a data breach affecting nearly 420,000 customers in Hong Kong, according to a Sunday report by a local newspaper. According to Xianggang Wenweipo, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Read More …

Australia mandates age verification on major platforms, threatens $50M fines

Australia is implementing comprehensive internet age verification and ID check requirements as part of a major overhaul of online safety regulation. By December 27, 2025, major platforms including Google and Microsoft must implement age verification checks on their search engines Read More …

CVE-2025-54309: CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On Friday, July 18, 2025, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54309, affecting versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.4_23 across all platforms. According to the public-facing vendor advisory, Read More …

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released version 138.0.7204.157/.158 for Chrome for Windows and Mac and 138.0.7204.157 for Chrome for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. The updates address three high severity vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-6558, which has an exploit in the Read More …

Ransomware gang attacking NAS devices taken down in major police operation

A 44-year-old Romanian national has been arrested during a law enforcement operation to dismantle a ransomware campaign called “Diskstation”. Diskstation usually targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, often used in an enterprise environment for centralized file storage and sharing, data Read More …

British spies and SAS named in Afghan data breach

The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the special forces and MI6, were compromised in a data breach that also put thousands of Afghans at risk of reprisal, it can be reported. The latest fallout from Read More …

Hackers are trying to steal passwords and sensitive data from users of Signal clone

Hackers are targeting a previously reported bug in the Signal clone app TeleMessage in an effort to steal users’ private data, according to security researchers and a U.S. government agency. TeleMessage, which earlier this year was revealed to be used Read More …