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Data Breach at Healthcare Services Firm Episource Impacts 5.4 Million People
/in General NewsHackers have stolen personal and health information belonging to the customers of healthcare organizations served by Episource.
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Ex-CIA Analyst Sentenced to 37 Months for Leaking Top Secret National Defense Documents
/in General NewsA former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst has been sentenced to little more than three years in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting top secret National Defense Information (NDI) to people who were not entitled to receive them and for attempting to cover up the malicious activity.
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, has been sentenced today to 37 months on charges of
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Veeam Patches CVE-2025-23121: Critical RCE Bug Rated 9.9 CVSS in Backup & Replication
/in General NewsVeeam has rolled out patches to contain a critical security flaw impacting its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions.
The security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-23121, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0.
“A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user,” the
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Iran Slows Internet to Prevent Cyber Attacks Amid Escalating Regional Conflict
/in General NewsIran has throttled internet access in the country in a purported attempt to hamper Israel’s ability to conduct covert cyber operations, days after the latter launched an unprecedented attack on the country, escalating geopolitical tensions in the region.
Fatemeh Mohajerani, the spokesperson of the Iranian Government, and the Iranian Cyber Police, FATA, said the internet slowdown was designed to
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Indian Car-Sharing Firm Zoomcar Latest to Suffer Breach
/in General NewsThe company acknowledged that cybercriminals had taken sensitive information on more than 8 million users, including names, phone numbers, car registration numbers, addresses, and emails.
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‘HoldingHands’ Acts Like a Pickpocket With Taiwan Orgs
/in General NewsSince at least January, the threat actor has been employing multiple malware tools to steal information for potential future attacks against Taiwanese businesses and government agencies.
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New ClickFix Malware Variant ‘LightPerlGirl’ Targets Users in Stealthy Hack
/in General NewsResearchers identify a previously unknown ClickFix variant exploiting PowerShell and clipboard hijacking to deliver the Lumma infostealer via a compromised travel site.
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Scattered Spider Aims at US Insurers After UK Retail Hit, Google Warns
/in General NewsScattered Spider targets US insurance firms after UK retail attacks, using social engineering to breach help desks and disrupt services, Google warns.
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Google Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2025-2783 Exploited by TaxOff to Deploy Trinper Backdoor
/in General NewsA now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome was exploited as a zero-day by a threat actor known as TaxOff to deploy a backdoor codenamed Trinper.
The attack, observed in mid-March 2025 by Positive Technologies, involved the use of a sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3).
Google addressed the flaw later that month after Kaspersky reported in-the-wild
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Pro-Cambodian hacktivists launch attacks on Thai government sites amid border dispute
/in General NewsThe AnonsecKh group, which goes by Bl4ckCyb3r on Telegram, claimed at least 73 attacks on Thai organizations in the two weeks following a May 28 incident in which a Cambodian soldier was killed in a skirmish with Thai forces.
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