The cyberattackers claimed 2.1m pieces of customer data had been stolen from the Legal Aid Agency
Millions of pieces of personal data, including criminal records, have been stolen from legal aid applicants in a massive cyberattack.
The data, including national insurance numbers, employment status and financial data, was breached earlier this year, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The cyberattackers claimed they had stolen 2.1 million pieces of data from people who had applied for legal aid since 2010 but the MoJ only said a “significant amount of personal data” had been breached.
An MoJ source put the breach down to the “neglect and mismanagement” of the previous government, saying vulnerabilities in the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) systems have been known for many years.
“This data breach was made possible by the long years of neglect and mismanagement of the justice system under the last government,” the source said.
Plusieurs comptes SwissPass ont été piratés depuis le début de l’année en Suisse romande. En Valais, la police recense 16 cas pour un préjudice total de 15’400 francs. Ce type de fraude s'étend au-delà du canton.
La police cantonale valaisanne a lancé une alerte après avoir enregistré une série de piratages de comptes SwissPass. Dans un communiqué publié le 20 mai, elle indique avoir reçu plusieurs signalements de connexions frauduleuses à ces comptes. Selon l’autorité, 16 cas ont été recensés depuis le début de l’année 2025 dans le canton, pour un préjudice total de 15’400 francs.
Les fraudeurs accèdent aux comptes grâce à des identifiants compromis, sans qu’un vol physique de la carte ne soit nécessaire. Une fois dans le compte, ils utilisent les moyens de paiement enregistrés comme Twint, la carte de crédit ou le paiement sur facture, pour acheter des billets de train, souvent à destination de la France, de l’Italie ou sur des liaisons transfrontalières. Cette méthode leur permet de détourner des montants importants sans jamais accéder au compte bancaire de la victime.
In April 2025, the Global Threat Hunting system of NSFOCUS Fuying Lab detected a significant increase in the activity of a new Botnet Trojan developed based on Go language. Given that many of its built-in DDoS attack methods are HTTP-based, Fuying Lab named it HTTPBot. The HTTPBot Botnet family first came into our monitoring scope in August 2024. Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks. Monitoring data indicates that its attack targets are primarily concentrated in the domestic gaming industry. Additionally, some technology companies and educational institutions have also been affected. The attack of this Botnet family is highly targeted, with attackers employing a periodical and multi-stage attack strategy to conduct continuous saturation attacks on selected targets.
In terms of technical implementation, the HTTPBot Botnet Trojan uses an “attack ID” to precisely initiate and terminate the attack process. It also incorporates a variety of innovative DDoS attack methods. By employing highly simulated HTTP Flood attacks and dynamic feature obfuscation techniques, it circumvents traditional rule-based detection mechanisms, including but not limited to the following detection bypass mechanisms:
Key Takeaways
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers. While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.
However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at. The rogue components provide additional, undocumented communication channels that could allow firewalls to be circumvented remotely, with potentially catastrophic consequences, the two people said.
Both declined to be named because they did not have permission to speak to the media.
"We know that China believes there is value in placing at least some elements of our core infrastructure at risk of destruction or disruption," said Mike Rogers, a former director of the U.S. National Security Agency. "I think that the Chinese are, in part, hoping that the widespread use of inverters limits the options that the West has to deal with the security issue."
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington said: "We oppose the generalisation of the concept of national security, distorting and smearing China's infrastructure achievements."
Threat actor used malicious Google Invites and hidden Unicode “Private Use Access” characters (PUAs) to brilliantly obfuscate and hide a malicious NPM package.
On March 19th, 2025, we discovered a package called os-info-checker-es6 and were taken aback. We could tell it was not doing what it said on the tin. But what's the deal? We decided to investigate the matter and initially hit some dead ends. But patience pays off, and we eventually got most of the answers we sought. We also learned about Unicode PUAs (No, not pick-up artists). It was a roller coaster ride of emotions!
Twilio has denied in a statement for BleepingComputer that it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be holding over 89 million Steam user records with one-time access codes.
The threat actor, using the alias Machine1337 (also known as EnergyWeaponsUser), advertised a trove of data allegedly pulled from Steam, offering to sell it for $5,000.
When examining the leaked files, which contained 3,000 records, BleepingComputer found historic SMS text messages with one-time passcodes for Steam, including the recipient's phone number.
Owned by Valve Corporation, Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for PC games, with over 120 million monthly active users.
Valve did not respond to our requests for a comment on the threat actor's claims.
Independent games journalist MellolwOnline1, who is also the creator of the SteamSentinels community group that monitors abuse and fraud in the Steam ecosystem, suggests that the incident is a supply-chain compromise involving Twilio.
MellowOnline1 pointed to technical evidence in the leaked data that indicates real-time SMS log entries from Twilio's backend systems, hypothesizing a compromised admin account or abuse of API keys.
During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, competitors earned $435,000 after exploiting zero-day bugs in multiple products, including Microsoft SharePoint, VMware ESXi, Oracle VirtualBox, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Mozilla Firefox.
The highlight was a successful attempt from Nguyen Hoang Thach of STARLabs SG against the VMware ESXi, which earned him $150,000 for an integer overflow exploit.
Dinh Ho Anh Khoa of Viettel Cyber Security was awarded $100,000 for hacking Microsoft SharePoint by leveraging an exploit chain combining an auth bypass and an insecure deserialization flaw.
Palo Alto Networks' Edouard Bochin and Tao Yan also demoed an out-of-bounds write zero-day in Mozilla Firefox, while Gerrard Tai of STAR Labs SG escalated privileges to root on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using a use-after-free bug, and Viettel Cyber Security used another out-of-bounds write for an Oracle VirtualBox guest-to-host escape.
In the AI category, Wiz Research security researchers used a use-after-free zero-day to exploit Redis and Qrious Secure chained four security flaws to hack Nvidia's Triton Inference Server.
On the first day, competitors were awarded $260,000 after successfully exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle VirtualBox, reaching a total of $695,000 earned over the first two days of the contest after demonstrating 20 unique 0-days.
The Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competition focuses on enterprise technologies, introduces an AI category for the first time, and takes place during the OffensiveCon conference between May 15 and May 17.
US man who hacked SEC’s X account to spike Bitcoin price sentenced to prison
Eric Council Jr., 26, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Friday for participating in the hack of the official X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing in a press release. Council and other hackers took over the SEC’s X account in 2024 to falsely announce that the agency had approved Bitcoin exchange traded funds, or ETFs, which shot up the price of the cryptocurrency before later dropping.
According to the DOJ, Council and his co-conspirators performed a SIM swap attack against the cellphone account of a person who had access to the SEC’s X account, which allowed the hackers to take control of their phone number. From there, the hackers reset the password of the SEC’s X account, granting them control of the account.
When Cameron Coward, the Youtuber behind the channel Serial Hobbyism, wanted to review a $6k UV printer and plugged in the USB flash drive with the printer software, the Antivirus software alerted him of a USB-spreading worm and a Floxif infection. Floxif is a file infector that attaches itself to Portable Executable files, so it can spread to network shares, removable drives like USB flash drives or backup storage systems.
The printer company Procolored assured him at first that these were false positives. Nevertheless, Cameron turned to Reddit in the hopes of finding a professional malware analyst who can figure out the truth.
All these software downloads are available on mega.nz with a different mega folder link for each product. Overall, there are 8 GB of files and archives for all six products. Most files were last updated in October 2024, which is six months ago at the time of writing.
Keeping your ears to the ground and eyes wide open for the latest vulnerability news at watchTowr is a given. Despite rummaging through enterprise code looking for 0days on a daily basis, our interest was piqued this week when news of fresh vulnerabilities was announced in a close friend -
Keeping your ears to the ground and eyes wide open for the latest vulnerability news at watchTowr is a given. Despite rummaging through enterprise code looking for 0days on a daily basis, our interest was piqued this week when news of fresh vulnerabilities was announced in a close friend - Ivanti, and their Endpoint Manager Mobile (Ivanti EPMM) solution.
For those out of the loop, don’t worry - as always, we’re here to fill you in.
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) is an MDM solution for system administrators to install and manage devices within an organization. It hopes to prevent you from installing malware or enjoying your life by watching YouTube during any permitted and sanctioned downtime.
Why Is This Important?
Well, short of their intended functionality, MDM solutions are, in a sense, C2 frameworks for enterprises… allowing system administrators to manage software on their devices.
Picture this: You’ve compromised the MDM solution at one of the largest banks and are able to deploy malicious software at scale to employee devices.
And it's Friday!
The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.
Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights advocates.
The sanctions will “prevent victims from getting access to justice,” said Liz Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.
Trump sanctioned the court after a panel of ICC judges in November issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.
Judges found there was reason to believe that the pair may have committed war crimes by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny.
One reason the the court has been hamstrung is that it relies heavily on contractors and non-governmental organizations. Those businesses and groups have curtailed work on behalf of the court because they were concerned about being targeted by U.S. authorities, according to current and former ICC staffers.
Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.
Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.
Staffers at an NGO that plays an integral role in the court’s efforts to gather evidence and find witnesses said the group has transferred money out of U.S. bank accounts because they fear it might be seized by the Trump administration.
The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems.
As of Tuesday, the full-fledged version of the website is up and running.
"The EU is now equipped with an essential tool designed to substantially improve the management of vulnerabilities and the risks associated with it," ENISA Executive Director Juhan Lepassaar said in a statement announcing the EUVD.
"The database ensures transparency to all users of the affected ICT products and services and will stand as an efficient source of information to find mitigation measures," Lepassaar continued.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) first announced the project in June 2024 under a mandate from the EU's Network and Information Security 2 Directive, and quietly rolled out a limited-access beta version last month during a period of uncertainty surrounding the United States' Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.
Register readers — especially those tasked with vulnerability management — will recall that the US government's funding for the CVE program was set to expire in April until the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, swooped in at the 11th hour and renewed the contract with MITRE to operate the initiative.
In September and October 2024, Ivanti published multiple1 security2 advisories3 regarding security policy bypasses and remote code execution vulnerabilities in their Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) product. It was later revealed by FortiGuard Labs Threat Research's work4 that some threat actors had been actively chaining these vulnerabilities as early as September 9, 2024, before any security advisory or patch was publicly released by Ivanti.
In some compromise scenarios, even though the initial access stemmed from the exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, later stages were short of such proficient attacker tradecraft. Threat actors were seen using known malicious tools and noisy payloads for lateral movement, persistence and credential dumping.
Synacktiv's CSIRT was recently in charge of different forensic investigations where the root cause was a vulnerable CSA appliance exposed to the internet. During these engagements, we found a set of open-source tools used by the attacker to achieve its goals. In this article, we take a tour of the OSS toolset from an Ivanti CSA exploiter and discuss related detection capabilities.
In April 2024, I discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Visual Studio Code (VS Code <= 1.89.1) that allows attackers to escalate a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) bug into full Remote Code Execution (RCE)—even in Restricted Mode.
The desktop version of Visual Studio Code runs on Electron. Renderer processes are sandboxed and communicate with the main process through Electron’s IPC mechanism.
An XSS vulnerability in the newly-introduced minimal error rendering mode for Jupyter notebooks enables arbitrary JavaScript code to be executed within the vscode-app WebView for the notebook renderer. The vulnerability can be triggered by opening a crafted .ipynb file if the user has the setting enabled, or by opening a folder containing a crafted settings.json file in VS Code and opening a malicious ipynb file within the folder. This vulnerability can be triggered even when Restricted Mode is enabled (which is the default for workspaces that have not been explicitly trusted by the user).
In this post, we’ll walk through how the bug works and how it bypasses VS Code’s Restricted Mode.
Cyber criminals bribed and recruited a group of rogue overseas support agents to steal Coinbase customer data to facilitate social engineering attacks. These insiders abused their access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small subset of customers. No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed and Coinbase Prime accounts are untouched. We will reimburse customers who were tricked into sending funds to the attacker. We’re cooperating closely with law enforcement to pursue the harshest penalties possible and will not pay the $20 million ransom demand we received. Instead we are establishing a $20 million reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the criminals responsible for this attack.
What happened
Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas. They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support tools for less than 1% of Coinbase monthly transacting users. Their aim was to gather a customer list they could contact while pretending to be Coinbase—tricking people into handing over their crypto. They then tried to extort Coinbase for $20 million to cover this up. We said no.
What they got
Name, address, phone, and email
Masked Social Security (last 4 digits only)
Masked bank‑account numbers and some bank account identifiers
Government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport)
Account data (balance snapshots and transaction history)
Limited corporate data (including documents, training material, and communications available to support agents)
La cybersecurity in Vaticano è un problema serio. La Chiesa cattolica ha duemila anni, il world wide web poco più di trenta, ma entrambi sono innegabilmente stati in grado di cambiare il mondo. Che, a dispetto delle buone intenzioni, resta un posto pericoloso.
Quello virtuale non fa eccezione. Diversi gruppi di attivisti e ricercatori sollecitano da anni il papa affinché si prenda cura degli affari digitali. Perché lo Stato più piccolo del mondo – grande come un paio di quartieri di Roma – è anche agli ultimi posti della classifica del Global cybersecurity index. “Nelle ultime tre posizioni, per la precisione, a fianco dello Yemen e di Timor Est”. A parlare con Wired collegato da Amsterdam è Joe Shenouda, ingegnere informatico dei Paesi Bassi. Shenouda riflette da anni sulla situazione. Soprattutto da quando, nel 2020, all'inizio della pandemia, gli asset digitali della Santa Sede furono attaccati con una perdita di dati senza precedenti. Ai tempi si sospettò della Cina. Da allora, racconta, dice, le minacce sono aumentate.
Così nel 2022 il professionista, che oggi lavora come ciso (chief information security officer) indipendente dopo un passato in alcune società di consulenza, ha messo in piedi, partendo da un post su Linkedin, una rete di volontari che si sono fatti carico di un aspetto poco considerato Oltretevere: la sicurezza informatica. Perché il Vaticano, a dispetto delle dimensioni, è un gigante nella diplomazia. Un colosso delle relazioni internazionali che dispone di una rete capillare di informatori e, soprattutto, di informazioni di prima mano su questioni complesse a livello globale. Per non parlare degli asset economici, inclusi i conti correnti, su cui transitano fiumi di denaro provenienti da donazioni e affitti. Per quanto sia lecito presumere che l’informatizzazione di una realtà estremamente legata alla tradizionale e lenta nei mutamenti non sia così pronunciata come altrove, la strada – per tutti - è inevitabilmente segnata.
Ivanti has released security updates for its Neurons for ITSM IT service management solution that mitigate a critical authentication bypass vulnerability.
Tracked as CVE-2025-22462, the security flaw can let unauthenticated attackers gain administrative access to unpatched systems in low-complexity attacks, depending on system configuration.
As the company highlighted in a security advisory released today, organizations that followed its guidance are less exposed to attacks.
"Customers who have followed Ivanti's guidance on securing the IIS website and restricted access to a limited number of IP addresses and domain names have a reduced risk to their environment," Ivanti said.
"Customers who have users log into the solution from outside their company network also have a reduced risk to their environment if they ensure that the solution is configured with a DMZ."
Ivanti added that CVE-2025-22462 only impacts on-premises instances running versions 2023.4, 2024.2, 2024.3, and earlier, and said that it found no evidence that the vulnerability is being exploited to target customers.
Product Name Affected Version(s) Resolved Version(s)
Ivanti Neurons for ITSM (on-prem only) 2023.4, 2024.2, and 2024.3 2023.4 May 2025 Security Patch
2024.2 May 2025 Security Patch
2024.3 May 2025 Security Patch
The company also urged customers today to patch a default credentials security flaw (CVE-2025-22460) in its Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) that can let local authenticated attackers escalate privileges on vulnerable systems.
While this vulnerability isn't exploited in the wild either, Ivanti warned that the patch won't be applied correctly after installing today's security updates and asked admins to reinstall from scratch or use these mitigation steps to ensure their network is protected from potential attacks.
EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that, in April 2025, China-nexus nation-state APTs (advanced persistent threat) launched high-temp exploitation campaigns against critical infrastructure networks by targeting SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Actors leveraged CVE-2025-31324 [1], an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability that enables remote code execution (RCE). This assessment is based on a publicly exposed directory (opendir) found on attacker-controlled infrastructure, which contained detailed event logs capturing operations across multiple compromised systems.
EclecticIQ analysts link observed SAP NetWeaver intrusions to Chinese cyber-espionage units including UNC5221 [2], UNC5174 [3], and CL-STA-0048 [4] based on threat actor tradecrafts patterns. Mandiant and Palo Alto researchers assess that these groups connect to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) or affiliated private entities. These actors operate strategically to compromise critical infrastructures, exfiltrate sensitive data, and maintain persistent access across high-value networks worldwide.
Uncategorized China-Nexus Threat Actor Scanning the Internet for CVE-2025-31324 and Upload Webshells
EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that, a very likely China-nexus threat actor is conducting a widespread internet scanning and exploitation campaign against SAP NetWeaver systems. Threat actor–controlled server hosted at IP address 15.204.56[.]106 exposed the scope of the SAP NetWeaver intrusions [5].
