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December 19, 2025
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Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattack on water utility

Bleeping Computer reports: Danish intelligence officials blamed Russia for orchestrating cyberattacks against Denmark’s critical infrastructure, as part of Moscow’s hybrid attacks against Western nations. In a Thursday statement, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) identified two groups operating on behalf of the Russian state: Z-Pentest, linked to the destructive water-utility attack, and NoName057(16), flagged as […]

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December 18, 2025
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France arrests 22-year-old over Interior Ministry hack

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The Record reports: French authorities arrested a 22-year-old on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a hack of the country’s Interior Ministry that saw the perpetrators access several email accounts and dozens of confidential documents. The ministry confirmed what was described as a serious incident after a user claimed credit for a hack on […]

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December 16, 2025
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SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted

Bleeping Computer has been reporting on ShinyHunters’ latest activities. Their newest reporting includes incidents involving SoundCloud and PornHub. Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users’ email addresses and profile information. […]

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December 16, 2025
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ASEC warns of expanding Gentlemen ransomware campaigns hitting manufacturing and healthcare

Industrial Cyber reports: Researchers from ASEC detailed Gentlemen, a newly identified ransomware group, which first emerged around August 2025. […] “During the breach, the group employs typical tactics seen in advanced ransomware groups, such as Group Policy Objects (GPO) manipulation and Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD). As of now, there is no clear evidence […]

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December 14, 2025
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NHS cyber breach exposes 169,000 files, including records linked to King Charles’s home

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Geo News reports: Russian hackers have sent shockwaves through Britain’s health system after gaining access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive NHS documents some of them linked to the Royal Household. The cyber breach, blamed on a ransomware gang exploiting a flaw in NHS software, has resulted in around 169,000 confidential files being dumped on […]

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December 13, 2025
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More than 340,000 impacted by cyberattack on library in large Washington county

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The Record reports: A cyberattack on the library system of Pierce County, Washington exposed the information of more than 340,000 people. The Pierce County Library System published breach notifications this week on its website and with regulators in several states. The letters concern a cybersecurity incident that was first discovered on April 21 and required the library system to shut down […]

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December 12, 2025
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Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation

The Register reports: Half of the internet-facing systems vulnerable to a fast-moving React remote code execution flaw remain unpatched, even as exploitation has exploded into more than a dozen active attack clusters ranging from bargain-basement cryptominers to state-linked intrusion tooling. That’s the assessment from Alon Schindel, VP of AI and Threat Research at Wiz, who says CVE-2025-55182 […]

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December 10, 2025
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Ukrainian hacker charged with helping Russian hacktivist groups

Bleeping Computer reports: U.S. prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian national for her role in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, including U.S. water systems, election systems, and nuclear facilities, on behalf of Russian state-backed hacktivist groups. On Tuesday, 33-year-old Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova (also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya) was arraigned on charges related to her […]