- Europol and Microsoft disrupt world’s largest infostealer Lumma
May 21, 2025
Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre has worked with Microsoft to disrupt Lumma Stealer (“Lumma”), the world’s most significant infostealer threat. This joint operation targeted the sophisticated ecosystem that allowed criminals to exploit stolen information on a massive scale. Europol coordinated with law enforcement in Europe to ensure action was taken, leveraging intelligence provided by Microsoft. Between 16 ...
- Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America
May 21, 2025
Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. “We saw several instances in the financial services space, and now we’re starting to see instances in the retail-oriented, customer-facing space,” Unit 42 principal threat researcher Kristopher Russo ...
- KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
May 20, 2025
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling ...
- Major supermarket distributor to Tesco and Sainsbury’s ‘held to ransom’
May 20, 2025
A major distributor to Britain’s biggest supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi, is being held to ransom by cyber hackers following a string of assaults on UK retail in the last month. Peter Green Chilled said clients were “receiving regular updates” including “workarounds” on how to continue deliveries. No orders would be processed on Thursday, although any ...
- Broadcom hit by employee data theft after breach in supply chain
May 19, 2025
Customers of the global semiconductor giant Broadcom have had their sensitive data leaked on the dark web after a two-step supply chain attack. Apparently, a company called Business Systems House (BSH), a human capital management (HCM) services provider from the Middle East, suffered a ransomware attack in September 2024, in which a group known as El ...
- Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach
May 19, 2025
A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline. Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie were three near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that allowed the person planting one of the apps on a target’s phone access to their personal data — including their messages, photos, ...
- Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR
May 19, 2025
Mozilla has released three security advisories to address two critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. CVE-2025-4918 is an ‘out-of-bounds access when resolving promise objects’ vulnerability. If exploited, could allow an attacker to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript Promise object. Read more… Source: NHS Digital Sign up for our Newsletter The latest news and insights delivered ...
- Update your Chrome to fix serious actively exploited vulnerability
May 19, 2025
Google released an emergency update for the Chrome browser to patch an actively exploited vulnerability that could have serious ramifications. The update brings the Stable channel to versions 136.0.7103.113/.114 for Windows and Mac and 136.0.7103.113 for Linux. The easiest way to update Chrome is to allow it to update automatically, but you can end up lagging ...
- UK: Legal Aid database hacked, ‘significant amount’ of data and criminal records stolen
May 19, 2025
The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has revealed that a cyberattack on the Legal Aid system has led to the theft of a “significant amount” of data, including criminal records. The MoJ was alerted to the attack on April 23 when data dating back as far as 2010 was accessed by the attackers. Earlier this month, ...
- Threat Group Assessment: Muddled Libra
May 16, 2025
Palo Alto researchers have added an additional section to this article that describes the evolution of Muddled Libra activity since the beginning for 2024. This group is a dynamic one, and as members cycle in and out of the group, its knowledgebase and skill set naturally shift. Its toolbox has now expanded to include: Social engineering of ...