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Four Arrested in £440M Cyber Attack on Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods
The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Thursday announced that four people have been arrested in connection with cyber attacks targeting major retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods. The arrested individuals include two men aged 19, a third aged 17, and a 20-year-old woman. They were apprehended in the West Midlands and London on…
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What Security Leaders Need to Know About AI Governance for SaaS
Generative AI is not arriving with a bang, it’s slowly creeping into the software that companies already use on a daily basis. Whether it is video conferencing or CRM, vendors are scrambling to integrate AI copilots and assistants into their SaaS applications. Slack can now provide AI summaries of chat threads, Zoom can provide meeting…
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ServiceNow Flaw CVE-2025-3648 Could Lead to Data Exposure via Misconfigured ACLs
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ServiceNow’s platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in data exposure and exfiltration. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3648 (CVSS score: 8.2), has been described as a case of data inference in Now Platform through conditional access control list (ACL) rules. It has been codenamed Count(er) Strike. “A…
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The man who wants to kill vote-by-mail in Oregon contests May election result
Ben Edtl is working to save his job — and change the way Oregonians cast their ballots.
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Gold Melody IAB Exploits Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys for Unauthorized Access to Targets
The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that access to other threat actors. The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker TGR-CRI-0045, where “TGR” stands for “temporary…
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DoNot APT Expands Operations, Targets European Foreign Ministries with LoptikMod Malware
A threat actor with suspected ties to India has been observed targeting a European foreign affairs ministry with malware capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised hosts. The activity has been attributed by Trellix Advanced Research Center to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called DoNot Team, which is also known as APT-C-35, Mint Tempest,…
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U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned a member of a North Korean hacking group called Andariel for their role in the infamous remote information technology (IT) worker scheme. The Treasury said Song Kum Hyok, a 38-year-old North Korean national with an address in the Chinese province…
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Chinese Hacker Xu Zewei Arrested for Ties to Silk Typhoon Group and U.S. Cyber Attacks
A Chinese national has been arrested in Milan, Italy, for his alleged links to a state-sponsored hacking group known as Silk Typhoon and for carrying out cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies. The 33-year-old, Xu Zewei, has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain…
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Microsoft Patches 130 Vulnerabilities, Including Critical Flaws in SPNEGO and SQL Server
For the first time in 2025, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly known. The patches resolve a whopping 130 vulnerabilities, along with 10 other non-Microsoft CVEs that affect Visual Studio, AMD, and its Chromium-based Edge browser. Of these 10…
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Oregon Democrats denounce Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
THE GORGE — Before the House passed President Donald Trump’s signature spending package, Oregon Democrats in Congress, along with Governor Tina Kotek, warned of its “devastating” impacts during a press conference last Wednesday, repeating a common refrain: working families lose,…

