ICYMI: 2025-08-08
Latest Headlines
AI Tools Fuel Brazilian Phishing Scam While Efimer Trojan Steals Crypto from 5,000 Victims
Leaked Credentials Up 160%: What Attackers Are Doing With Them
RubyGems, PyPI Hit by Malicious Packages Stealing Credentials, Crypto, Forcing Security Changes
GreedyBear Steals $1M in Crypto Using 150+ Malicious Firefox Wallet Extensions
Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds
A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data
It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise
CodeSecCon 2025: Where Software Security’s Next Chapter Unfolds
Help Desk at Risk: Scattered Spider Shines Light on Overlook Threat Vector
In Other News: Nvidia Says No to Backdoors, Satellite Hacking, Energy Sector Assessment
Black Hat USA 2025 – Summary of Vendor Announcements (Part 4)
French Telecom Firm Bouygues Says Data Breach Affects 6.4M Customers
CastleBot Malware-as-a-Service Deploys Range of Payloads Linked to Ransomware Attacks
Axis Camera Server Vulnerabilities Exposes Thousands of Organizations to Attack
US Confirms Shutdown of BlackSuit Ransomware That Hacked Over 450 Organizations
PyPI Released Advisory to Prevent ZIP Parser Confusion Attacks on Python Package Installers
Columbia University Data Breach – Hackers Stolen 870,000 Individuals Personal and Financial Data
Windows User Account Control Bypassed Using Character Editor to Escalate Privileges
Threat Actors Weaponize Malicious Gopackages to Deliver Obfuscated Remote Payloads
OpenAI to fix GPT-5 issues, double rate limits for paid users after outrage
WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction
FTC: older adults lost record $700 million to scammers in 2024
U.S. Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service
Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default
Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android
Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals
Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies
– MTZ