Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack

Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted by a hacking collective known as “Scattered Spider” BleepingComputer has learned from multiple sources. Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a British multinational retailer that employs 64,000 employees and sells various products, including clothing, food, and home goods […]

Hitachi Vantara takes servers offline after Akira ransomware attack

Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi, was forced to take servers offline over the weekend to contain an Akira ransomware attack. The company provides data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management, and ransomware recovery services to government entities and some of the world’s biggest brands, including BMW, Telefónica, T-Mobile, and China Telecom. In […]

VeriSource now says February data breach impacts 4 million people

Employee benefits administration firm VeriSource Services is warning that a data breach exposed the personal information of four million people.  VeriSource is a Texas-based employee benefits administration and HR outsourcing solutions provider with diverse clients across the U.S. The firm has begun data breach notifications to impacted individuals about a cybersecurity incident that occurred in […]

Over 1,200 SAP NetWeaver servers vulnerable to actively exploited flaw

Over 1,200 internet-exposed SAP NetWeaver instances are vulnerable to an actively exploited maximum severity unauthenticated file upload vulnerability that allows attackers to hijack servers. SAP NetWeaver is an application server and development platform that runs and connects SAP and non-SAP applications across different technologies. Last week, SAP disclosed an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-31324, […]

Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key

​Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. The announcement comes after OffSec lost the old repo signing key (ED444FF07D8D0BF6) and was forced to create a new one (ED65462EC8D5E4C5) signed by Kali Linux developers using signatures available on the Ubuntu OpenPGP key server. However, […]

Coinbase fixes 2FA log error making people think they were hacked

Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised. As BleepingComputer first reported earlier this month, Coinbase had mistakenly labeled failed login attempts with incorrect passwords as two-factor authentication failures in the Account Activity logs. When a threat actor attempted to access someone’s account […]

Brave’s Cookiecrumbler tool taps community to help block cookie notices

Brave has open-sourceed a new tool called “Cookiecrumbler,” which uses large language models (LLMs) to detect cookie consent notices and then community-driven reviews to block those that won’t break site functionality. The Brave browser has been blocking cookie consent banners by default on all websites since 2022 but found that blocking consent banners may cause website […]

DragonForce expands ransomware model with white-label branding scheme

The ransomware scene is re-organizing, with one gang known as DragonForce working to gather other operations under a cartel-like structure. DragonForce is now incentivizing ransomware actors with a distributed affiliate branding model, providing other ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations a means to carry out their business without dealing with infrastructure maintenance cost and effort. A group’s representative […]

WooCommerce admins targeted by fake security patches that hijack sites

A large-scale phishing campaign targets WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” that adds a WordPress backdoor to the site. Recipients that take the bait and download the update are actually installing a malicious plugin that creates a hidden admin account on their website, downloads web shell payloads, and maintains […]