As Cl0p's Higher Education Rampage Continues, Two More Institutions Face the Consequences of Enterprise Software Vulnerabilities December 19, 2025 Executive Summary The University of Phoenix and Baker University have become the latest educational institutions to confirm breaches stemming from the exploitation of CVE-2025-61882—the Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day
A comprehensive analysis of 348 cyber attacks detected across the global threat landscape from December 12-19, 2025 Executive Summary The week of December 12-19, 2025 has shattered expectations for the traditional holiday cybersecurity slowdown. Instead of the anticipated decrease in attack activity, threat intelligence monitoring detected 348 distinct ransomware and
From ransomware negotiators to exploit developers to federal contractors, 2025 exposed a disturbing pattern of trusted security professionals weaponizing their access against the very organizations they were hired to protect. December 19, 2025 Executive Summary The year 2025 will be remembered as a watershed moment in cybersecurity history—not for
Two former cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty to orchestrating ransomware attacks against U.S. companies, marking a stunning betrayal of trust in an industry built on protecting organizations from cyber threats. December 19, 2025 Executive Summary Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin, two former employees of cybersecurity incident response
Amazon measuring deviations in employee keystroke times from pre-established baselines probably shouldn't surprise us at this point. Seems on brand, actually. But what caught my attention wasn't the monitoring itself—it was how 110 milliseconds became the thread that unraveled an entire North Korean intelligence operation.
Bottom Line Up Front: Amazon's threat intelligence team has exposed a critical evolution in Russian state-sponsored cyber operations: APT44 (Sandworm) has shifted from expensive zero-day exploitation to targeting misconfigured network edge devices as their primary attack vector against Western energy and critical infrastructure. This tactical pivot—tracked across
December 19, 2025 - In one of the most significant financial cybercrime cases to date, federal prosecutors have charged 54 individuals connected to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated foreign terrorist organization, with orchestrating a sophisticated nationwide ATM jackpotting operation that netted over $40.73 million as of August 2025.
A comprehensive analysis of the data breaches, ransomware campaigns, and privacy failures that exposed billions of records and reshaped the cybersecurity landscape The Year Privacy Became a Luxury Another year has ended, and with it, thousands of data breaches affecting hundreds of millions of people. The question in 2025 was
The country that wrote the playbook on digital identity had its homework stolen In July 2021, a Tallinn-based hacker exploited a vulnerability in Estonia's Identity Documents Database (KMAIS) and walked away with government ID photos of 286,438 citizens. The breach was particularly embarrassing because Estonia isn'
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, faces an unprecedented convergence of crises in December 2025. Within weeks, the AI giant disclosed a third-party data breach affecting its API users, was ordered by a federal court to hand over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations to The New York Times, and became defendant
On November 8, 2025, analytics giant Mixpanel fell victim to a sophisticated SMS phishing attack that would ultimately expose customer data across hundreds of major organizations—from OpenAI and PornHub to SoundCloud and cryptocurrency platforms. The breach highlights critical vulnerabilities in the analytics industry, where third-party providers collect massive amounts
The adult entertainment platform PornHub is being extorted by the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group following the theft of over 200 million Premium member activity records. The breach, which both parties attribute to a recent compromise at analytics provider Mixpanel, has exposed highly sensitive user data including detailed viewing histories, search
December 12, 2025 - In a stark escalation of cyber tensions, Germany has formally accused Russia's military intelligence agency of orchestrating a sophisticated cyber-attack against its air traffic control systems, joining a growing chorus of nations confronting an unprecedented wave of digital assaults targeting aviation infrastructure worldwide. The
Breaking: Attack highlights ongoing cybersecurity challenges for critical government infrastructure The French Interior Ministry confirmed Friday that its email servers were targeted in a cyberattack this week, marking the latest in a series of high-profile security incidents affecting French government infrastructure throughout 2024 and into 2025. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez
A comprehensive analysis of Fortinet's exploitation crisis and why hospitals keep getting hit Executive Summary While the cybersecurity world focused on SonicWall's troubles, Fortinet products have quietly become one of the most frequently exploited attack vectors in modern ransomware campaigns—with healthcare bearing the brunt of
How the firm documenting 2025's 47% attack surge became a victim of its own research—and why CVE-2024-24919 reveals systemic firewall vendor failures Executive Summary In a stunning display of irony, Check Point Software—the cybersecurity vendor that publishes the industry's most comprehensive threat intelligence reports—
$244 Million in Ransoms, Chinese APT Groups, and Why Federal Agencies Can't Keep Cisco Firewalls Patched Executive Summary While Fortinet and SonicWall have garnered attention for their exploitation crises, Cisco networking equipment—deployed in virtually every major enterprise, government agency, and critical infrastructure organization—has become ground zero
A comprehensive analysis of the August 2025 attack that exposed nearly 800,000 bank and credit union customers Executive Summary In August 2025, Marquis Software Solutions, a Texas-based financial technology vendor serving over 700 banks and credit unions, fell victim to a sophisticated ransomware attack that compromised the personal and
Victoria Dubranova faces life in prison for 99 documented cyberattacks spanning from swimming pools to public water systems In what reads like a script from a techno-thriller, Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, a 20-something Ukrainian woman known online as "Vika" and "Sovasonya," stands accused of orchestrating some of
Warsaw, Poland — In a significant cybersecurity operation, Polish police have detained three Ukrainian nationals carrying sophisticated hacking and surveillance equipment capable of compromising critical national infrastructure. The December 8, 2025 arrests highlight the persistent threat of close-access cyber operations targeting NATO allies in Eastern Europe. The Traffic Stop That Exposed
December 8, 2024 - Pet retail giant Petco has disclosed a significant data breach affecting an undetermined number of customers, with exposed information including Social Security numbers, driver's license details, financial account data, and credit card information. The incident, caused by a misconfigured application setting, highlights the ongoing
Major tech manufacturer faces supply chain attack exposing critical phone camera source code December 8, 2025 Asus, one of the world's largest computer hardware manufacturers, has confirmed a significant cybersecurity incident affecting one of its suppliers after the Everest ransomware group claimed to have stolen over one terabyte
Five of eight Ivy League schools compromised in six months. Elite fundraising operations exposed. And the oldest trick in the book—a convincing phone call—remains the most effective. Related Coverage: * Hackers Strike US Ivy League Schools Already Under Political Pressure * Educational Institutions Under Siege: New Haven Phishing Attack Highlights
When trusted software becomes the attack vector, organizations learn the hardest lesson in cybersecurity: You can do everything right and still lose everything. Related Coverage: * Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploitation: Inside Cl0p's Latest Mass Data Extortion Campaign * Clop Ransomware: Inside One of the World's Most Dangerous