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β€ŠFake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts

An ongoing phishing campaign impersonates popular brands, such as Unilever, Disney, MasterCard, LVMH, and Uber, in Calendly-themed lures to steal Google Workspace and Facebook business account credentials. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-calendly-invites-spoof-top-brands-to-hijack-ad-manager-accounts/
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β€ŠNorth Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme

In an unprecedented intelligence operation, security researchers exposed how North Korean IT recruiters target and lure developers into renting their identities for illicit fundraising. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korea-lures-engineers-to-rent-identities-in-fake-it-worker-scheme/
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β€ŠCybercrime Goes SaaS: Renting Tools, Access, and Infrastructure

Cybercrime has fully shifted to a subscription model, with phishing kits, Telegram OTP bots, infostealer logs, and even RATs now rented like SaaS tools. Varonis explains how this "crime-as-a-service" economy lowers the barrier to entry and gives low-skill attackers on-demand access to advanced capabilities. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercrime-goes-saas-renting-tools-access-and-infrastructure/
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β€ŠMicrosoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts

Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities for the past 10 hours. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-portal-outage-blocks-access-to-security-alerts/
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β€ŠShai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets

The second Shai-Hulud attack last week exposed around 400,000 raw secrets after infecting hundreds of packages in the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry and publishing stolen data in 30,000 GitHub repositories. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shai-hulud-20-npm-malware-attack-exposed-up-to-400-000-dev-secrets/
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β€ŠFTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-settlement-requires-illuminate-to-delete-unnecessary-student-data/
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β€ŠKorea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras

The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a foreign adult site. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/korea-arrests-suspects-selling-intimate-videos-from-hacked-ip-cameras/
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β€ŠUniversity of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack

The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-phoenix-discloses-data-breach-after-oracle-hack/
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β€ŠAisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aisuru-botnet-behind-new-record-breaking-297-tbps-ddos-attack/
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β€ŠDeep dive into DragonForce ransomware and its Scattered Spider connection

DragonForce expanded its ransomware operation in 2025 by working with English-speaking hackers known for advanced social engineering and initial access. Acronis explains how the "Scattered Spider" collaboration enables coordinated, multistage intrusions across major environments. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/deep-dive-into-dragonforce-ransomware-and-its-scattered-spider-connection/
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β€ŠRussia blocks Roblox over distribution of LGBT "propaganda"

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, has blocked access to the Roblox online gaming platform for failing to stop the distribution of what it described as LGBT propaganda and extremist materials. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-blocks-roblox-over-distribution-of-lgbt-propaganda/
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β€ŠFreedom Mobile discloses data breach exposing customer data

Freedom Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked into its customer account management platform and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/freedom-mobile-discloses-data-breach-exposing-customer-data/
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β€ŠCritical flaw in WordPress add-on for Elementor exploited in attacks

Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions during the registration process. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-flaw-in-wordpress-add-on-for-elementor-exploited-in-attacks/
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β€ŠCritical React, Next.js flaw lets hackers execute code on servers

A maximum severity vulnerability, dubbed 'React2Shell', in the React Server Components (RSC) 'Flight' protocol allows remote code execution without authentication in React and Next.js applications. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-react2shell-flaw-in-react-nextjs-lets-hackers-run-javascript-code/
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