24 Jul

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user’s home directory and delete

Author rabih
24 Jul

Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu

Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data. LVMH-owned Dior, the

Author rabih
24 Jul

Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

The popular npm package “is” was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were

Author rabih
24 Jul

ToolShell: An all-you-can-eat buffet for threat actors

ESET Research ESET Research has been monitoring attacks involving the recently discovered ToolShell zero-day vulnerabilities ESET Research 24 Jul 2025  •  , 5 min. read

Author rabih
24 Jul

Rogue CAPTCHAs: Look out for phony verification pages spreading malware

Digital Security Before rushing to prove that you’re not a robot, be wary of deceptive human verification pages as an increasingly popular vector for delivering

Author rabih
23 Jul

IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns

A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to

Author rabih
23 Jul

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default. Microsoft introduced Recall, you may recall,

Author rabih
23 Jul

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation

Author rabih
23 Jul

VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

Exclusive Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack. VMware must support crucial Dutch govt

Author rabih
23 Jul

Three questions you should always be able to answer about your security environment

Partner content We’ve all seen those seemingly straightforward security questions that snowball into multi-day research projects across dozens of consoles, spreadsheets, and manual queries. The

Author rabih
23 Jul

$380M lawsuit claims intruder got Clorox’s passwords from Cognizant simply by asking

Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew “enabled a cybercriminal to

Author rabih
23 Jul

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a

Author rabih
23 Jul

China warns citizens to beware backdoored devices, on land and under the sea

China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea. On Monday, the Ministry used its WeChat

Author rabih
22 Jul

Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday

Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America’s critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity

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22 Jul

Silicon Valley engineer admits theft of US missile tech secrets

A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology. San Jose-based

Author rabih
22 Jul

Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and

Author rabih
22 Jul

Surprise, surprise: Chinese spies, IP stealers, other miscreants attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers

At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond. Two of the crews

Author rabih
22 Jul

Humans can be tracked with unique ‘fingerprint’ based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal

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