After an abrupt notice of the end of funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program caused a small panic in the cybersecurity world, it appears that a contract extension option exercised by CISA will keep it safe at least until March 2026.
During the roughly year-and-a-half that the security breach was active, about 100 email accounts were monitored by the attacker and it is estimated that they viewed about 150,000 messages in total.
Early indications are that a recent rash of cyber attacks on Australia’s biggest superannuation funds were a credential stuffing campaign making use of information from older data breaches. The attacks compromised at least a few hundred accounts and led to the theft of at least AUD 500,000.
Versions prior to 2.2450.6 of the Windows client are subject to a WhatsApp vulnerability that allows threat actors to attack users via file attachments that look innocuous, such as image files.
Oracle is presently dealing with the fallout of either one or two data breaches, apparently depending upon who’s doing the asking. Recent March breach of Oracle Cloud appears to be information only available to some of the company’s larger clients, at least going by recent news reports.
Many questions remain about the data leak: if it was in fact the work of a former employee, if it was a matter of revenge for Musk’s sweeping layoffs, and if the entirety of the new information is in fact new and accurate.
It’s unclear how many of the 140,000 or so Oracle Cloud clients have suffered damage from the recent data breach, but the keys the attackers claim to have raise a lot of alarm.
The report takes DeepSeek R1 to task for its poor guardrails, documenting the creation of malware including a basic keylogger and several types of ransomware via very basic sorts of prompt hacking that other major models long ago addressed.
Types of organized crimes seeing outsized benefit from AI-powered tools include human trafficking and all types of illicit international smuggling, waste management fraud, and of course a spectrum of cyber attacks. Europol also notes use by state-sponsored hacking groups in disruption and propaganda campaigns.
How safe are your GitHub repositories? If they are public, a set of recent compromises has called their security into question. The widely-used GitHub Actions tool, owned and maintained by Microsoft, has been the source of at least one major supply chain attack.