Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
23 June 2025
Google has revealed the various safety measures that are being incorporated into its generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to mitigate emerging attack vectors like indirect prompt injections and improve the overall security posture for agentic AI systems.
"Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections
23 June 2025
Iranian hackers are expected to intensify cyberattacks against the US after the recent air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
The post US Braces for Cyberattacks After Joining Israel-Iran War appeared first on SecurityWeek.
23 June 2025
Not every risk looks like an attack. Some problems start as small glitches, strange logs, or quiet delays that don’t seem urgent—until they are. What if your environment is already being tested, just not in ways you expected?
Some of the most dangerous moves are hidden in plain sight. It’s worth asking: what patterns are we missing, and what signals are we ignoring because they don’t match old
23 June 2025
Nucor has shared an update on the impact of the recent cyberattack and confirmed that some data has been taken from its IT systems.
The post Steelmaker Nucor Says Hackers Stole Data in Recent Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
21 June 2025
The April 2025 cyber attacks targeting U.K. retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been classified as a "single combined cyber event."
That's according to an assessment from the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a U.K.-based independent, non-profit body set up by the insurance industry to categorize major cyber events.
"Given that one threat actor claimed responsibility for both M&S and
21 June 2025
Aflac said that it’s in the early stages of a review of the incident, and so far is unable to determine the total number of affected individuals.
The post Aflac Finds Suspicious Activity on US Network That May Impact Social Security Numbers, Other Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals.
The new feature takes the form of a "Call Lawyer" feature on the affiliate panel, per Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason.
The
20 June 2025
As conflict rises between Israel and Iran, organizations in the United States are urged to prepare for the possibility of increased cyberattacks from Iran.
20 June 2025
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: China’s Salt Typhoon targeted Viasat, Washington Post emails compromised in hack, Rowhammer attack named Crowhammer.
The post In Other News: Viasat Hacked by China, Washington Post Cyberattack, Crowhammer appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Cloudflare has blocked yet another record-breaking DDoS attack, which delivered the equivalent of 9,000 HD movies in just 45 seconds.
The post Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Research reveals a CVSS 8.8 vulnerability, and security leaders are sharing their thoughts.
20 June 2025
Iran's state-owned TV broadcaster was hacked Wednesday night to interrupt regular programming and air videos calling for street protests against the Iranian government, according to multiple reports.
It's currently not known who is behind the attack, although Iran pointed fingers at Israel, per Iran International.
"If you experience disruptions or irrelevant messages while watching various TV
20 June 2025
The Godfather Android trojan uses on-device virtualization to hijack legitimate applications and steal users’ funds.
The post Godfather Android Trojan Creates Sandbox on Infected Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Threat actors are exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in Motors theme for WordPress to change arbitrary user passwords.
The post Motors Theme Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Websites appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that it linked the exploited FreeType vulnerability CVE-2025-27363 to a Paragon exploit.
The post FreeType Zero-Day Found by Meta Exploited in Paragon Spyware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That’s when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation.
When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over Easter weekend, they were forced to shut down their online operations, which account for
20 June 2025
Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider.
"Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks," Cloudflare's Omer
20 June 2025
A threat actor is abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for the delivery of a Python loader as part of a complex infection chain.
The post Cloudflare Tunnels Abused in New Malware Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Krispy Kreme is sharing more information on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack targeting the company in 2024.
The post 161,000 People Impacted by Krispy Kreme Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 June 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new campaign in which the threat actors have published more than 67 GitHub repositories that claim to offer Python-based hacking tools, but deliver trojanized payloads instead.
The activity, codenamed Banana Squad by ReversingLabs, is assessed to be a continuation of a rogue Python campaign that was identified in 2023 as targeting the Python Package