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InfoSec News Nuggets 5/22/2025
Hackers are distributing a cracked password manager that steals data, deploys ransomware Cybercriminals are distributing a tainted version of a popular password manager, through which they’re able to...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/21/2025
Japan enacts new Active Cyberdefense Law allowing for offensive cyber operations Japan on Friday enacted a new law that would permit the country’s authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries ...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/20/2025
How an alleged Russian hacker slipped away On Jan. 5, 2024, Андрей Владимирович Тарасов (Eng. Andrei Vladimirovich Tarasov), a 33-year-old Russian man, was released from Moabit Prison in Berlin. He’d...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/19/2025
Scientists use AI to encrypt secret messages that are invisible to cybersecurity systems Scientists have found a way to turn ChatGPT and other AI chatbots into carriers of encrypted messages that are...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/16/2025
Chinese Actor Hit Taiwanese Drone Makers, Supply Chains The Chinese-speaking threat group Earth Ammit targeted a broader range of industries than just Taiwanese drone manufacturers, as initially assu...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/15/2025
CISA Planned to Kill .Gov Alerts, Then It Reversed Course The United States' top cyber defense agency reversed a decision Tuesday to stop posting cybersecurity alerts and guidance on its website afte...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/14/2025
U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs Last week, a U.S. congressman announced a plan to introduce a bill that would mandate producers of high-performance AI proces...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/13/2025
160,000 Impacted by Valsoft Data Breach  Canada-based vertical market software (VMS) firm Valsoft Corporation (dba AllTrust) is notifying over 160,000 people that their personal information was compr...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/12/2025
PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now wat...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/9/2025
Cisco Patches CVE-2025-20188 (10.0 CVSS) in IOS XE That Enables Root Exploits via JWT Cisco has released software fixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw in its IOS XE Wireless Controller t...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/8/2025
CrowdStrike lays off 500 in latest example of AI costing people their jobs Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is cutting 500 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce, as it responds to both th...
InfoSec News Nuggets 5/7/2025
US Jury Orders NSO Group to Pay $168 Million to WhatsApp in Landmark Spyware Case A federal jury in California has ordered Israeli spyware maker NSO Group to pay WhatsApp approximately $168 million i...