Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.

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Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools

Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a “sophisticated” campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Earth Kurma since June 2024.
The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage services for data exfiltration. The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia are among the

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RSA Conference 2025 – Pre-Event Announcements Summary (Part 3) 

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

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African Telecom Giant MTN Group Discloses Data Breach

MTN Group says the personal information of certain customers was compromised in a cybersecurity incident.

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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead.
WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to breach sites running

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Oregon Agency Won’t Say If Hackers Stole Data in Cyberattack

Oregon’s environmental agency won’t say if a group of hackers stole data in a cyberattack that was first announced earlier this month.

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Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access.
The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the below vulnerabilities –

CVE-2024-58136 (CVSS score: 9.0) – An improper protection of alternate path flaw in the Yii PHP

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4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’

4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was […]

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Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year.
“The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in an analysis.
The tech giant noted that

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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet

Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking […]

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