by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 16, 2025 | IT Security |
Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend that disrupted its export operations. In a Monday statement, PDVSA denied that the Saturday morning incident affected its operations in any way, adding...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 16, 2025 | IT Security |
Sponsored Post Managing cybersecurity risk has never been simple, but in today’s threat landscape it can also become a source of strength. PwC believes that AI is now central to that transformation, helping organizations not just react faster to attacks, but...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 15, 2025 | IT Security |
Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users’ email addresses and profile information. The disclosure...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 15, 2025 | IT Security |
Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin’s snoops persistent access...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 15, 2025 | IT Security
Users accessing the SoundCloud audio streaming platform through a virtual private network (VPN) connection are denied access to the service and see a 403 ‘forbidden’ error. SoundCloud is a large audio distribution platform focused on user-uploaded content,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 15, 2025 | IT Security
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to delay its move to a new messaging standard in 2022 ended up costing the Bank of England £23 million as it was forced to adjust migration to a new settlement system to avoid compounding risks. The UK central...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 15, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft has confirmed that the December 2025 security updates are breaking Message Queuing (MSMQ) functionality, affecting enterprise applications and Internet Information Services (IIS) websites. This known issue affects Windows 10 22H2, Windows Server 2019, and...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 14, 2025 | IT Security
Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite. “A few days ago, 9 satellites were deployed from a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwestern China,” Michael...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 14, 2025 | IT Security
An email scam is abusing abusing PayPal’s “Subscriptions” billing feature to send legitimate PayPal emails that contain fake purchase notifications embedded in the Customer service URL field. Over the past couple of months, people have reported [1, 2]...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 12, 2025 | IT Security
Apple has released emergency updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack” targeting specific individuals. The zero-days are tracked as CVE-2025-43529 and CVE-2025-14174 and were both issued in response to the...
