Month: May 2025

 Microsoft has announced a new “Prevent Screen Capture” feature for Teams that will block unauthorized screenshots during meetings. The feature, scheduled for worldwide rollout in July 2025, represents Microsoft’s continued…

 A newly identified information-stealing malware, dubbed PupkinStealer, Developed in C# using the .NET framework, this lightweight yet effective malware targets sensitive user data, including browser credentials, desktop files, messaging app…

 As artificial intelligence (AI) tools gain mainstream traction for content creation, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the hype with a sophisticated new attack vector, fake AI platforms promising advanced video and…

 In a coordinated effort, Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Dutch National Police have dismantled a sophisticated…

Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users' personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle similar lawsuits brought by other U.S. states. In November 2022, it paid $391 million to a group of 40

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure and shutdown linked to the eXch cryptocurrency exchange over allegations of money laundering and operating a criminal trading platform. The operation was carried out on April 30, 2025, authorities said, adding they also confiscated 8 terabytes worth of data and cryptocurrency assets

 A significant surge in sophisticated recruitment scams has emerged, with cybercriminals exploiting economic vulnerabilities and the competitive job market to target desperate job seekers. These scams employ increasingly refined social…

 A critical remote code execution vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (CVE-2025-31324) is being actively exploited by a Chinese threat actor to compromise enterprise systems worldwide. The vulnerability allows attackers…

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Cybercriminals are flocking to take part in the newly inflamed fight between India and Pakistan. Read More  

 Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a sophisticated attack campaign targeting IT administrators through search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics. Threat actors are leveraging advanced SEO techniques to push malicious versions of…

Exposed data from LockBit's affiliate panel includes Bitcoin addresses, private chats with victim organizations, and user information such as credentials. Read More  

On Dark Reading's 19-year anniversary, Editor-in-Chief Kelly Jackson Higgins stops by Informa TechTarget's RSAC 2025 Broadcast Alley studio to discuss how things have changed since the early days of breaking…

 A seemingly innocent Python package has been unmasked as a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT) targeting the Discord developer community. On March 21, 2022, a package named ‘discordpydebug’ appeared on…