Coindoo reports: Physical attacks on cryptocurrency holders are rising sharply this year, with security experts warning that 2025 could become the most dangerous year yet for investors. At the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, SatoshiLabs founder Alena Vranova described a wave of “wrench attacks” — kidnappings, assaults, and extortion aimed at forcing victims to surrender…
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Why Ransomware Attacks Are Decreasing in 2025
Ogbonda Chivumnovu reports: It started like a domino effect. One by one, the biggest names in ransomware began to vanish in Q2. From LockBit, once considered the most active and resilient ransomware gang, its empire began to unravel under the pressure of global law enforcement. Then, almost in sequence, other major players, 8Base, RansomHub, and…
KR: Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered its second ransomware attack in two months
The following is translation by NAVER for Maiel Business Newspaper. DataBreaches is guessing that the “eat-dog” situation reference is what we call “dog-eat-dog” to refer to brutal competitor actions, but that’s just a guess. Kim Kyusik, Kim Yutae, and Yang Seiho report: Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered another “eat-dog” situation due to ransomware…
Korea wins world’s top hacking contest for 4th consecutive year
Lee Gyu-lee reports: Korean white hat hacker team Maple Mallard Magistrates (MMM) won the Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competition at this year’s DEF CON conference, held in Las Vegas from Thursday through Sunday (local time). The final round of CTF, the largest open computer security hacking competition, was held during the security conference, with…
7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Hackers Write Files and Run Malicious Code
Divya reports: A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute malicious code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55188, affects all versions of 7-Zip prior to the recently released version 25.01 and stems from improper handling of symbolic links…
Connex Credit Union notifies 172,000 members of hacking incident
On August 7, external counsel for Connex Credit Union (“Connex”) in Connecticut notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of a recent hacking incident. According to their notification, unusual activity was discovered on their system on June 3, 2025. An investigation that was promptly launched determined that files may have been accessed or downloaded without authorization…