- Ingram Micro says ongoing outage caused by ransomware attack
July 7, 2025
Ingram Micro, a U.S. technology distributing giant and managed services provider, said on Monday a ransomware attack is the cause of an ongoing outage at the company. The hack began on Thursday, after which the company’s website and much of its network went down. Late on Saturday, the company said in a brief statement that it ...
- Australia’s Qantas says cyber criminal contacts one week after data breach
July 7, 2025
A cyber criminal has made contact with Australia’s Qantas following a data breach last week that exposed personal information of six million customers, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. The hacker had targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer service platform containing the customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates ...
- Louis Vuitton Korea says systems breach led to customer data leak
July 4, 2025
A systems breach at Louis Vuitton Korea in June led to the leak of some of customer data including contact information, but did not involve customers’ financial information, the luxury brand’s South Korea unit said on Friday. “We regret to inform that an unauthorized third party temporarily accessed our system resulting in the leak of some ...
- Payout offered to Afghans hit by UK data breaches
July 4, 2025
Afghan nationals whose personal information was mistakenly exposed by the Ministry of Defence in 2021 will be offered up to £4,000 each in compensation, the government has said. The data breaches affected 277 people, some of whom had worked for the UK government and were in hiding from insurgent Taliban forces at the time. Defence Minister ...
- French government hit by Chinese hackers exploiting Ivanti security flaws
July 4, 2025
In late 2024, Chinese state-sponsored threat actors abused multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) devices to access French government agencies, as well as numerous commercial entities such as telcos, finance, and transportation organizations. The news was recently confirmed by the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI), which noted threat ...
- The people behind the pixels: why cybersecurity in critical industries is more human than ever
July 3, 2025
When the phone rings at 3am in the world of critical infrastructure cybersecurity, it’s rarely good news. For security professionals protecting water utilities, power grids, and transport networks, these midnight calls often signal that someone, somewhere, is trying to disrupt the services millions depend on. Recent ransomware attacks targeting water treatment facilities remind us that ...
- Taking SHELLTER: a commercial evasion framework abused in the wild
July 3, 2025
Elastic Security Labs is observing multiple campaigns that appear to be leveraging the commercial AV/EDR evasion framework, SHELLTER, to load malware. SHELLTER is marketed to the offensive security industry for sanctioned security evaluations, enabling red team operators to more effectively deploy their C2 frameworks against contemporary anti-malware solutions. SHELLTER, like many other offensive security tools (OSTs), is ...
- Mexican drug cartel hacked cameras and phones to spy on FBI and identify witnesses
July 3, 2025
The “El Chapo” Mexican drug cartel snooped on FBI personnel through hacked cameras, and listened in on their phone calls to identify and kill potential witnesses, the US Department of Justice has said. And seven years on, the Bureau’s defenses against this kind of surveillance are still inadequate. The findings came to light in a June ...
- Ransomware crew Hunters International shuts down, hands out keys to victims
July 3, 2025
Ransomware gang Hunters International has shut up shop and offered decryption keys to all victims as a parting favor. Announcing the news on Thursday morning, the gang deleted all victim data from its dark web leak site and issued a statement confirming its closure. “We, at Hunters International, wish to inform you of a significant decision regarding ...
- FBI: Fraudsters Target US Stock Investors through Investment Clubs Accessed on Social Media and Messaging Applications
July 3, 2025
The FBI warns the public about criminals targeting US stock investors through social media platforms and messaging service applications (apps). The scheme, known as a “ramp-and-dump” stock manipulation, targets US investors through online engagement, often via social media advertisements or messages promoting an “investment club” of fellow investors, some of which may be bots or ...
- Apache Under the Lens: Tomcat’s Partial PUT and Camel’s Header Hijack
July 3, 2025
In March 2025, Apache disclosed CVE-2025-24813, a vulnerability impacting Apache Tomcat. This is a widely used platform that allows Apache web servers to run Java-based web applications. The flaw allows remote code execution, affecting Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.98, 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.34 and 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.2. The same month, Apache revealed two additional vulnerabilities in ...