Steel Giant Nucor Confirms Data Stolen in Cyberattack post, juni 24, 2025juni 25, 2025 America’s largest steel producer initially disclosed the breach in May and took potentially affected systems offline to investigation the intrusion and contain any malicious activity. Continue Reading
WhatsApp verboden op telefoons Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden post, juni 23, 2025juni 24, 2025 Berichtendienst WhatsApp wordt per direct verboden op alle elektronische communicatiemiddelen van het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden. Dat meldt de cybersecuritydienst van het Huis. De dienst maakt zich al langer zorgen over de cyberveiligheid. Werknemers is verzocht de app te verwijderen en een alternatief te gebruiken zoals Signal of FaceTime. Leden… Continue Reading
Department of Homeland Security Warns of Iranian Cyberattacks Following Devastating Strikes On Nuclear Sites post, juni 22, 2025juni 23, 2025 Following President Donald Trump’s “massive precision strikes” on Iran’s Nuclear facilities, concerns are mounting over the safety of Americans both abroad and at home—especially amid fears of retaliatory cyberattacks. The United States launched strikes on three sites in Iran early Sunday, marking a significant escalation in Israel’s ongoing conflict aimed… Continue Reading
China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids post, juni 19, 2025juni 23, 2025 Over the past several weeks, I’ve been conducting a large-scale bibliometric study on publicly available Chinese academic literature related to hacking and crashing Western power grids. In this article, I’m sharing the main findings of that study. EDIT (20.6.2025, 8:54 CET): All of the Chinese academic articles I examined are… Continue Reading
Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware post, juni 13, 2025augustus 21, 2025 Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed on February 10, 2025, as part of iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.4, macOS… Continue Reading
Over 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID Accounts Targeted Using Open-Source TeamFiltration Tool post, juni 12, 2025juni 13, 2025 Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new account takeover (ATO) campaign that leverages an open-source penetration testing framework called TeamFiltration to breach Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) user accounts. The activity, codenamed UNK_SneakyStrike by Proofpoint, has targeted over 80,000 user accounts across hundreds of organizations’ cloud tenants since a surge in… Continue Reading
Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages post, juni 12, 2025juni 13, 2025 Update June 12, 17:41 EDT: In new updates, Cloudflare said that all services have been restored and are now fully operational, while Google stated it expects “recovery to complete in less than an hour.” Update June 12, 15:29 EDT: Cloudflare says its services were impacted by Google Cloud’s outage. “This is a Google Cloud… Continue Reading
Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks post, juni 12, 2025juni 13, 2025 Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert. “This incident is part of a broader trend of ransomware actors exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp RMM… Continue Reading
Russische hackers ontregelden maandenlang windpark Oude Maas post, juni 10, 2025juni 11, 2025 Een Russische hack bij een Duitse windturbineproducent had in 2022 ook gevolgen voor Nederlandse windmolens. Sommige stonden maandenlang stil, waaronder die van windmolenpark Oude Maas. Een reconstructie van hoe Europa’s meest gezochte criminelen een hack uitvoerden met potentiële risico’s voor de stroomvoorziening op ons continent. Hoe zit het met de… Continue Reading
Over 70 Organizations Across Multiple Sectors Targeted by China-Linked Cyber Espionage Group post, juni 9, 2025juni 10, 2025 The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets between July 2024 and March 2025. “The victimology includes a South Asian government entity, a European media organization, and more than 70 organizations across a wide range of sectors,” SentinelOne… Continue Reading