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Date: 26/08/2025
55-year-old Davis Lu received four years in prison for sabotaging his former employer’s Windows network. Lu carried out his revenge using custom malware and a special “kill switch” that locked out all employees after his account was disabled.
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Date: 26/08/2025
Researchers at Positive Technologies reported the discovery of a previously unknown toolkit used by the Goffee hacker group (aka Paper Werewolf). It was employed in the later stages of attacks and allowed the attackers to remain undetected within victims’ infrastructure for a long time.
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Date: 26/08/2025
The topic of hacking and stealing cars using the Flipper Zero has once again made headlines in the global media. This time, hackers claim to be selling “secret firmware” for the gadget that supposedly can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and a number of other brands. The Flipper developers explain that this is not true.
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Date: 23/08/2025
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged the alleged developer and administrator of the RapperBot DDoS botnet, which was rented out to cybercriminals. The botnet itself was seized by law enforcement in early August as part of Operation PowerOff.
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Date: 23/08/2025
The maintainers of the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository announced that they will now be countering domain-resurrection attacks, which allow attackers to take over other users’ accounts via password resets.
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Date: 23/08/2025
Users report that recent updates to Windows 11 24H2 may cause data corruption and failures in some SSD and HDD models. Microsoft has not yet been able to reproduce the issue and is asking people to submit information about any problems they’ve identified.
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Date: 23/08/2025
The UAE-based company Advanced Security Solutions, which launched this month, offers up to $20 million for zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits that would allow hacking any smartphone via a text message. This is among the highest prices of any vulnerability broker, at least among those that disclose such figures publicly.
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