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Port of Seattle says ransomware breach impacts 90,000 people

  • ​Port of Seattle, the U.S. government agency overseeing Seattle's seaport and airport, is notifying roughly 90,000 individuals of a data breach after their personal information was stolen in an August 2024 ransomware attack.

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PoisonSeed phishing campaign behind emails with wallet seed phrases

  • A large-scale phishing campaign dubbed 'PoisonSeed' compromises corporate email marketing accounts to distribute emails containing crypto seed phrases used to drain cryptocurrency wallets.

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Australian pension funds hit by wave of credential stuffing attacks

  • Over the weekend, a massive wave of credential stuffing attacks hit multiple large Australian super funds, compromising thousands of members' accounts.

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Europcar GitLab breach exposes data of up to 200,000 customers

  • A hacker breached the GitLab repositories of multinational car-rental company Europcar Mobility Group and stole source code for Android and iOS applications, as well as some personal information belonging to up to 200,000 users.

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Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet

  • A maximum severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered impacting all versions of Apache Parquet up to and including 1.15.0.

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Hunters International shifts from ransomware to pure data extortion

  • The Hunters International Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation is shutting down and rebranding with plans to switch to data theft and extortion-only attacks.

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Microsoft starts testing Windows 11 taskbar icon scaling

  • ​Microsoft is testing a new taskbar icon scaling feature that automatically scales down Windows taskbar icons to show more apps when it gets too overcrowded.

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CISA warns of Fast Flux DNS evasion used by cybercrime gangs

  • CISA, the FBI, the NSA, and international cybersecurity agencies are calling on organizations and DNS providers to mitigate the "Fast Flux" cybercrime evasion technique used by state-sponsored threat actors and ransomware gangs.

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Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-March

  • Ivanti has released security updates to patch a critical Connect Secure remote code execution vulnerability exploited by a China-linked espionage actor to deploy malware since at least mid-March 2025.

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Texas State Bar warns of data breach after INC ransomware claims attack

  • The State Bar of Texas is warning it suffered a data breach after the INC ransomware gang claimed to have breached the organization and began leaking samples of stolen data.

  • Oracle
     

Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers

  • Oracle has finally acknowledged to some customers that attackers have stolen old client credentials after breaching a "legacy environment" last used in 2017.

  • GitHub
     

Recent GitHub supply chain attack traced to leaked SpotBugs token

  • A cascading supply chain attack on GitHub that targeted Coinbase in March has now been traced back to a single token stolen from a SpotBugs workflow, which allowed a threat actor to compromise multiple GitHub projects.

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Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns

  • The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by authoritarian governments.

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Verizon Call Filter API flaw exposed customers' incoming call history

  • A vulnerability in Verizon's Call Filter feature allowed customers to access the incoming call logs for another Verizon Wireless number through an unsecured API request.

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GitHub expands security tools after 39 million secrets leaked in 2024

  • Over 39 million secrets like API keys and account credentials were leaked on GitHub throughout 2024, exposing organizations and users to significant security risks.

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