by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 5, 2025 | IT Security
International authorities have dismantled three massive credit card fraud and money laundering networks, linked to losses exceeding €300 million ($344 million) and affecting over 4.3 million cardholders across 193 countries. The November 4th joint action, dubbed...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 5, 2025 | IT Security
How a fast-growing scam is tricking WhatsApp users into revealing their most sensitive financial and other data 05 Nov 2025 • , 4 min. read Scams and other threats that are doing the rounds on messaging apps like WhatsApp are a stark reminder of how easily even...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 5, 2025 | IT Security
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of thousands of Windows 7 laptops with Windows 10 – which officially reached end of support last...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 4, 2025 | IT Security
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts. Post SMTP is a popular email delivery solution marketed as a...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 4, 2025 | IT Security
The infosec program run by the US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) “is not effective,” according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). A summary of the report, dated October 31 and published on Monday,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community. This story starts in 2018, when US authorities charged the operator of a Canadian company called “Phantom...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
The Balancer Protocol announced that hackers had targeted its v2 pools, with losses reportedly estimated to be more than $128 million. Balancer is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain as an automated market maker and liquidity...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Three former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies DigitalMint and Sygnia have been indicted for allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks between May 2023 and November 2023. 28-year-old Kevin Tyler...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Feature It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours. Cities were plunged into darkness. Trains stopped and...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
When every minute counts, preparation and precision can mean the difference between disruption and disaster 03 Nov 2025 • , 5 min. read Network defenders are feeling the heat. The number of data breaches Verizon investigated last year, as a share of overall...
