Security News > 2025 > January

Google to Iran: Yes, we see you using Gemini for phishing and scripting. We're onto you
2025-01-31 01:30

And you, China, Russia, North Korea ... Guardrails block malware generation Google says it's spotted Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean government agents using its Gemini AI for nefarious...

KuCoin to pay nearly $300 million in penalties after guilty plea
2025-01-31 00:18

KuCoin's operator, PEKEN Global Limited, pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and agreed to pay $297 million in penalties to settle charges in the U.S. [...]

Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China
2025-01-30 23:31

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends...

Data resilience and data portability
2025-01-30 22:01

Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once Sponsored Feature Considering it has such a large share of the data protection market, Veeam doesn't talk much about backups in...

VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation
2025-01-30 22:00

Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed "high severity," in VMware's IT...

Google blocked 2.36 million risky Android apps from Play Store in 2024
2025-01-30 20:57

Google blocked 2.3 million Android app submissions to the Play Store in 2024 due to violations of its policies that made them potentially risky for users. [...]

DeepSeek Locked Down Public Database Access That Exposed Chat History
2025-01-30 19:15

Research Firm Wiz Research began investigating DeepSeek soon after its generative AI took the tech world by storm.

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral
2025-01-30 18:15

‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’ interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China's Salt Typhoon breached American...

Ransomware attack disrupts New York blood donation giant
2025-01-30 17:53

​The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world's largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to reschedule some appointments. [...]

Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested
2025-01-30 16:44

Law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Romania, Italy, France and the USA have seized and shut down Cracked and Nulled, the two largest cybercrime forums in the world. The...