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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.

Cloudflare has blocked yet another record-breaking DDoS attack, which delivered the equivalent of 9,000 HD movies in just 45 seconds.

The Godfather Android trojan uses on-device virtualization to hijack legitimate applications and steal users’ funds.

Threat actors are exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in Motors theme for WordPress to change arbitrary user passwords.

WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that it linked the exploited FreeType vulnerability CVE-2025-27363 to a Paragon exploit.

A threat actor is abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for the delivery of a Python loader as part of a complex infection chain.

Krispy Kreme is sharing more information on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack targeting the company in 2024. 

Personal data of former and current council workers, including election staff, may have been accessed by hackers.

Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow hackers torched more than $90 million at Iran’s largest cryptobank as Israel-Iran cyberwar escalates.

Trend Micro and ReversingLabs uncovered over 100 GitHub accounts distributing malware embedded in open source hacking tools.

A ransomware group has claimed the theft of millions of files from procurement service provider Chain IQ and 19 other companies.

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Checkmarx has appointed Scott Gainey as Chief Marketing Officer.

Jason Hogg has been named Executive Chairman of CYPFER.

HUB Cyber Security has appointed former PayPal and American Express executive Paul Parisi as its Global Chief Revenue Officer.

Cloud security startup Upwind has appointed Rinki Sethi as Chief Security Officer.

SAP security firm SecurityBridge announced the appointment of Roman Schubiger as the company’s new CRO.

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WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that it linked the exploited FreeType vulnerability CVE-2025-27363 to a Paragon exploit.

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After decades of failed attempts to access encrypted communications, governments are shifting from persuasion to coercion—security experts say the risks are too high.

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A hacker is selling allegedly valuable data stolen from Scania, but the truck maker believes impact is very limited.

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Russian hackers posed as US State Department staff and convinced targets to generate and give up Google app-specific passwords.

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract for AI capabilities to help the Defense Department address national security challenges.

Hackers have stolen personal and health information belonging to the customers of healthcare organizations served by Episource.

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Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T) directorate intends to award NUARI a $9.9 million contract to develop technologies that will help organizations understand how to respond in the event of a cyber attack.

In the current threat landscape, where cyber-criminals are increasingly using automation to carry out their attacks, an automatic security reaction seems to be inevitable, as mitigating attacks with a manual process would be as effective as bringing a knife to a gunfight.

FORT MEADE - US Army Private Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail and dishonorably discharged Wednesday for the biggest breach of official secrets in American history.

WELLINGTON - New Zealand passed legislation Wednesday allowing its main intelligence agency to spy on residents and citizens, despite opposition from rights groups, international technology giants and the legal fraternity.

BOSTON - Rapid7 pulled the covers away from two products designed to improve an enterprise's insight into its security posture.  The products are dubbed ControlsInsight and UserInsight, and are aimed at providing deeper visibility into the security of users and endpoints.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe’s cyber security agency, has released a new report outlining incidents that resulted in “major outages” at electronic communication networks or services in the EU during 2012. The report provides an aggregated analysis of the 79 reported incidents of severe outages of electronic communication networks, or services during the year.

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Security researchers uncover critical flaws and widespread misconfigurations in Salesforce’s industry-specific CRM solutions.

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Cloud security startup Circumvent has raised $6 million to develop a network of agents for autonomous prioritization and remediation.

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