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Intel Plugs 29 Holes in CPUs, Bluetooth, Security

The higher-rated advisories focus on privilege-escalation bugs in CPU firmware: Tough to patch, hard to exploit, tempting to a savvy attacker.

Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points

A nameless malware resulted in a huge data heist of files, credentials, cookies and more that researchers found collected into a cloud database.

DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password

Attackers accessed a VPN account that was no longer in use to freeze the company’s network in a ransomware attack whose repercussions are still vibrating.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits, 50 Flaws

Researchers discovered a highly targeted malware campaign launched in April, in which a new, unknown threat actor used two of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft said are under active attack.

Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent.

TrickBot Coder Faces Decades in Prison

A Latvian malware developer known as “Max” has been arraigned on 19 counts related to fraud, identity theft, information theft and money laundering.

Google Patches Critical Android RCE Bug

Google’s June security bulletin addresses 90+ bugs in Android and Pixel devices.

‘An0m’ Encrypted-Chat Sting Leads to Arrest of 800

The FBI and Australian law enforcement set up the encrypted chat service and ran it for over 3 years, seizing weapons, drugs and over $48m in cash.

Billions of Compromised Records and Counting: Why the Application Layer is Still the Front Door for Data Breaches

Security teams should brace for an unsettling and unprecedented year, as we’re on pace to see 40 billion records compromised by the end of 2021. Imperva’s Terry Ray explains what…
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Evil Corp Impersonates PayloadBin Group to Avoid Federal Sanctions

The cybercriminals try to pin new ransomware on Babuk Locker in an effort to fly under the radar of an ongoing FBI investigation.