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β€ŠUS offers $10M for tips on state hackers tied to RedLine malware

The U.S. Department of State has announced a reward of up to $10 million for any information on government-sponsored hackers with ties to the RedLine infostealer malware operation and its suspected creator, Russian national Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-offers-10m-for-tips-on-state-hackers-tied-to-redline-malware/
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β€ŠGermany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches

The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company's German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-fines-vodafone-51-million-for-privacy-security-breaches/
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β€ŠOld AT&T data leak repackaged to link SSNs, DOBs to 49M phone numbers

A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates to individual users. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/old-atandt-data-leak-repackaged-to-link-ssns-dobs-to-49m-phone-numbers/
β€ŠFBI: BADBOX 2.0 Android malware infects millions of consumer devices

The FBI is warning that the BADBOX 2.0 malware campaign has infected over 1 million home Internet-connected devices, converting consumer electronics into residential proxies that are used for malicious activity. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-badbox-20-android-malware-infects-millions-of-consumer-devices/
β€ŠPolice arrests 20 suspects for distributing child sexual abuse content

Law enforcement authorities from over a dozen countries have arrested 20 suspects in an international operation targeting the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-arrests-20-suspects-for-distributing-child-sexual-abuse-content/
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β€ŠCritical Fortinet flaws now exploited in Qilin ransomware attacks

The Qilin ransomware operation has recently joined attacks exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities that allow bypassing authentication on vulnerable devices and executing malicious code remotely. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-fortinet-flaws-now-exploited-in-qilin-ransomware-attacks/
β€ŠMicrosoft shares script to restore inetpub folder you shouldn’t delete

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help restore an empty 'inetpub' folder created by the April 2025 Windows security updates if deleted. As Microsoft previously warned, this folder helps mitigate a high-severity Windows Process Activation privilege escalation vulnerability. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-shares-script-to-restore-inetpub-folder-you-shouldnt-delete/
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β€ŠMalicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories

Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application directories. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-npm-packages-posing-as-utilities-delete-project-directories/
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β€ŠSupply chain attack hits Gluestack NPM packages with 960K weekly downloads

A significant supply chain attack hit NPM after 15 popular Gluestack packages with over 950,000 weekly downloads were compromised to include malicious code that acts as a remote access trojan (RAT). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/supply-chain-attack-hits-gluestack-npm-packages-with-960k-weekly-downloads/
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β€ŠNew Mirai botnet infect TBK DVR devices via command injection flaw

A new variant of the Mirai malware botnet is exploiting a command injection vulnerability in TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices to hijack them. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-mirai-botnet-infect-tbk-dvr-devices-via-command-injection-flaw/
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