Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also, Taiwan Rail Hack, Massive DDoS Attack and Karakurt Jail SentenceThis week, Microsoft Edge exposed passwords, Taiwan police make arrests in high-speed rail hack and a 2.45 billion-request DDoS attack. A Karakurt negotiator jailed, North Korean IT worker scams led to prison terms and France detained a teen over a government data breach. Another Ivanti zero-day.

Investigators Find Violations of State Cyber RegulationsNew York fined Delta Dental $2.25 million for the company's response to the mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software' MOVEit file transfer application. Delta Dental is one of thousands of organizations caught up in the blast radius of an automated 2023 Memorial Day hack.

Also, Lloyds Data Leak, Dutch Treasury Breach, Citrix Bug Exploit, Pay2Key ActivityThis week, Lloyds data leak hits 450K, Dutch treasury breach, Citrix flaw exploited, Iran-linked ransomware ops, TrueConf zero-day, Russian fraud ring sentenced, Romania targeted, patch gaps persist, and U.S. hospital breach affects 257K.

British Health System Investigates Claim Amid Wave of Enterprise Data TheftsRansomware gang Clop has claimed the United Kingdom's National Health Service among its latest victims. The NHS confirmed that it is listed on a cybercriminal group's dark website, but did not comment on Clop's claims. The hack attack appears tied to Oracle E-Business Suite exploits.

Flaw Enabled Remote Code Execution, Say AWS ResearchersResearchers from AWS said they spotted a hacking campaign taking advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Cisco network access control software before the routing giant patched it earlier this year. The flaw let attackers perform pre-authentication remote code execution.

Williams & Connolly Hit in Zero-Day Campaign Impacting Client EmailsA zero-day vulnerability was used to breach email accounts at the elite D.C. law firm Williams & Connolly, with officials reportedly suspecting the hack is part of a China-linked campaign targeting the U.S. legal sector to support espionage, steal intelligence and establish long-term access routes.

Settlement Is Latest Among Scores of Other MOVEit Lawsuits Still PendingNuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle class action litigation filed after hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software in 2023, stealing data belonging to more than a dozen of Nuance's healthcare clients.

RomCom Group Deployed SnipBot, RustyClaw and Mythic Agent VariantsA Russian speaking hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in WinRAR, a sign of the group's growing sophistication and evolution from a cybercrime outfit into a cyberespionage operation. The campaign exploited a vulnerability now tracked as CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal vulnerability.

But Hacking Groups of All Stripes Now Have Access to Exploit Code, Researchers WarnMicrosoft said an attack campaign targeting zero-day vulnerabilities in on-premises SharePoint servers appears to have begun by July 7, tied to three Chinese hack groups. With proof-of-concept exploit code now in the wild, security experts said hackers of all stripes have joined the fray.

Microsoft Researchers Link Turkish Spy Group to Output Messenger Zero-Day HackA Turkish-linked cyberespionage group known as Marbled Dust exploited a zero-day in the Output Messenger Server Manager application to spy on Kurdish military operations in Iraq. Microsoft reported the hack and called for immediate mitigation to block credential theft and malware delivery.

Unauthenticated Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-31324 to Upload WebshellsThreat actors are exploiting a zero-day flaw in a partially deprecated SAP tool still widely used by governments and businesses. On Friday, SAP's security division, Onapsis, disclosed that CVE-2025-31324 is "actively exploited in the wild."

Also: FamousSparrow Is Back, Snowflake Hacker Agrees to ExtraditionThis week, Signal update, FamousSparrow is back, suspected Snowflake hacker agreed to U.S. extradition, train tickets sales hack in Ukraine, a patched Chrome zero-day, phishing targets SEO pros, DrayTek router outage, South African chicken producer attacked, and bad npm packages.

Hackers Reportedly Exploited Barracuda ESG Zero-DayThe Belgian government opened a federal probe into a suspected Chinese espionage campaign targeting the country's civilian intelligence service. The attack on the Belgian government aligns with the broader Chinese strategy of compromising edge devices for stealth espionage campaigns.

AG Says HealthAlliance Tried But Failed to Fix Zero-Day Flaw That Led to ExploitNew York State has levied a $550,000 fine against a healthcare group that tried - but failed - to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in a Citrix NetScaler appliance used for telemedicine. Hackers exploited the flaw, stealing 196 gigabytes of data in an incident affecting 242,000 people.

Tianfeng Guan Allegedly Developed Zero-Day Exploit of Sophos XG FirewallThe U.S. federal government rolled out its heavy guns Tuesday against a Chinese hacker allegedly at the center of a zero-day exploit used to hack firewalls made by Sophos, unsealing an indictment, rolling out sanctions and offering $10 million for information leading to the suspect's arrest.

Cryptocurrency Users Targeted in Latest Campaign Involving FudModule RootkitA hacking group tied to North Korea exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the open source Google Chromium web browser to try and steal cryptocurrency, Microsoft said. The attack campaign is the latest to involve a sophisticated North Korean rootkit called FudModule. Google has fixed the flaw.

Lazarus Espionage Group's Sophisticated Malware Evades Antivirus MonitoringNorth Korea's Lazarus hacking team, which focuses on cryptocurrency theft and espionage, has once again been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows to install antivirus-suppressing malware dubbed Fudmodule to aid its intrusions.

Increase in Known Vulnerabilities and Zero-Days Is Fueling Mass Hacking CampaignsAttackers are increasingly targeting cybersecurity devices deployed on the network edge to pivot into enterprise environments, as they take advantage of a surge in zero-day and known vulnerabilities in such devices, which organizations can take months to patch.

Government Nurtures Homegrown Talent and Hack-for-Hire Ecosystem, Research FindsChina boasts many of the world's most talented zero-day vulnerability researchers as well as a strict cybersecurity law compelling individuals to assist the state, and the government doesn't appear to shy away from using both those facts to its advantage, a new research study finds.

Outdated Software, Exploited Flaws, Security Loopholes Expose Ivanti's DevicesSupply chain security firm Eclypsium found corporate VPN maker Ivanti's Pulse Secure devices - which underwent much emergency patching amid a likely Chinese espionage zero-day hacking campaign - operate on an 11-year old version of Linux and use many obsolete software packages.