Darkreading • Jul 16, 2025, 1:00 AM

Using more than 600 domains, attackers entice Chinese-speaking victims to download a vulnerable Telegram app that is nearly undetectable on older versions of Android.

cyberscoop • Jul 15, 2025, 10:35 PM

Cameron Wagenius faces a maximum of 27 years in prison. A researcher that helped with the investigation called this ‘one of the most significant wins in the fight against cybercrime.' The post Former Army soldier pleads guilty to widespread attack spree linked to AT&T, Snowflake and others appeared first on CyberScoop.

Darkreading • Jul 15, 2025, 8:24 PM

McDonald's hiring platform was using its original default credentials and inadvertently exposed information belonging to approximately 64 million job applicants.

Darkreading • Jul 15, 2025, 8:14 PM

Experts recommend enhanced AI literacy, training around the ethics of using AI, and verification protocols to maintain credibility in an increasingly AI-influenced courtroom.

BleepingComputer • Jul 15, 2025, 8:12 PM

OpenAI's image gen model, which is available via ChatGPT for free, now lets you easily create AI images even if you're not familiar with trends or prompt engineering. [...]

BleepingComputer • Jul 15, 2025, 7:58 PM

Abacus Market, the largest Western darknet marketplace supporting Bitcoin payments, has shut down its public infrastructure in a move suspected to be an exit scam. [...]

cyberscoop • Jul 15, 2025, 7:03 PM

In congressional testimony, President Trump’s former national security adviser said his use of Signal to coordinate military operations was “driven by” cybersecurity guidance from CISA. The post Waltz brushes off SignalGate questions, points finger at CISA  appeared first on CyberScoop.

cyberscoop • Jul 15, 2025, 6:53 PM

ESET researchers observed tens of thousands of machines infected with AsyncRAT and its variants over the past year. The open-source malware is a popular tool among cybercriminals. The post AsyncRAT seeds family of more than 30 remote access trojans appeared first on CyberScoop.

BleepingComputer • Jul 15, 2025, 6:47 PM

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is enabled. [...]

The Hacker News • Jul 15, 2025, 4:30 PM

Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended off the previous quarter. "Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed," Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. "Cloudflare blocked over 6,500 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, an average of 71