Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2025-12-02 07:00 PST
- North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 06:57 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
In an unprecedented intelligence operation, security researchers exposed how North Korean IT recruiters target and lure developers into renting their identities for illicit fundraising. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korea-lures-engineers-to-rent-identities-in-fake-it-worker-scheme/ - Google fixes two Android zero days exploited in attacks, 107 flaws
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 06:36 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Google has released the December 2025 Android security bulletin, addressing 107 vulnerabilities, including two flaws actively exploited in targeted attacks. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-two-android-zero-days-exploited-in-attacks-107-flaws/ - Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 06:00 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
An ongoing phishing campaign impersonates popular brands, such as Unilever, Disney, MasterCard, LVMH, and Uber, in Calendly-themed lures to steal Google Workspace and Facebook business account credentials. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-calendly-invites-spoof-top-brands-to-hijack-ad-manager-accounts/ - Microsoft: KB5070311 triggers File Explorer white flash in dark mode
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 05:39 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-kb5070311-triggers-file-explorer-bright-white-flashes-in-dark-mode/ - Iran-Linked Hackers Hits Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks
The Hacker News • 2025-12-02 05:37 • thehackernews.com
Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper.
The activity has been attributed by ESET to a hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/iran-linked-hackers-hits-israeli_2.html - University of Pennsylvania confirms new data breach after Oracle hack
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 04:55 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has confirmed a new data breach after attackers stole documents containing personal information from its Oracle E-Business Suite servers in August. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-pennsylvania-confirms-data-theft-after-oracle-ebs-hack/ - Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
Schneier on Security • 2025-12-02 04:03 • www.schneier.comIn his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?” But in the early decades of this century, Susskind suggested that we face a different question: “To what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems—and o…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/like-social-media-ai-requires-difficult-choices.html - SecAlerts Cuts Through the Noise with a Smarter, Faster Way to Track Vulnerabilities
The Hacker News • 2025-12-02 03:30 • thehackernews.com
Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and keeping track of all the vulnerability alerts, notifications, and updates can be a burden on resources and often leads to missed vulnerabilities.
Taking into account that nearly 10% of
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/secalerts-cuts-through-noise-with.html - Windows 11 KB5070311 update fixes File Explorer freezes, search issues
BleepingComputer • 2025-12-02 03:19 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has released the KB5070311 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 systems, which includes 49 changes, including fixes for File Explorer freezes and search issues. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5070311-update-fixes-file-explorer-freezes-search-issues/ - Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2025. Statistics
Securelist • 2025-12-02 02:07 • securelist.com
Kaspersky Security Bulletin contains statistics on various cyberthreats for the period from November 2024 to October 2025, which are based on anonymized data voluntarily provided by Kaspersky users via Kaspersky Security Network (KSN).
https://securelist.com/kaspersky-security-bulletin-2025-statistics/118189/
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
