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Vodafone Germany fined $51M for user data protection failure

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Vodafone Germany is going to have to pay hefty fines after Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) found the telecom company lacking adequate data protection measures for its partners and a vulnerability exposing eSIM profiles. The BfDI has imposed two fines on Vodone.
Interlock ransomware claims Kettering health attack

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Weeks after US healthcare network Kettering Health announced that it suffered a cyberattack, ransomware group Interlock has claimed responsibility for the attack. Kettering was left dealing with a system outage due to the attack, confirmed it had been targeted, but didn’t reveal additional information at the time. While the healthcare firm didn’t reveal who was behind the attack, CNN reported that it was Interlock.
Online grocery shop KiranaPro hacked; AWS and GitHub wiped

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

KiranaPro CEO Deepak Ravindran has taken to X, alleging that a “deliberate attack” deleted the app’s GitHub repository and AWS data. The app has been inoperable since the attack, although Ravindran claims the company is working on rebuilding from its backups. Since the breach, the company has been working with cybersecurity experts to investigate the attack and has started notifying affected customers.
Critical Roundcube webmail flaw went undetected for 10 years

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

The Roundcube email client has a critical remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2025-49113 with a CVSS score of 9.9. The vulnerability has been present in Roundmail for over a decade, allowing hackers to take over targeted systems and run arbitrary code if exploited. Roundcube promptly issued security updates, fixing the bug in versions 1.6.11 and 1.5.10 LTS.
Novel Linux vulnerabilities allow password hash theft

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Two novel information disclosure vulnerabilities have been discovered that affect Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise, and Fedora Linux. If exploited, the vulnerabilities allow a local attacker to gain access to otherwise protected information. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). They affect the apport, systemd-coredump, and core dump handlers for the aforementioned Linux distros.
Whistleblower exposes Conti and TrickBot gang leader

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

German law enforcement authorities have exposed a Russian national named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev as the founder of the infamous TrickBot cybercrime gang. Earlier in May, a whistleblower named Kovale as the founder of the Conti and TrickBot gangs. Kovalev was named in a press release from the Main Public Prosecutor’s Office, Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT), and the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany.
Main Street banks reports data breach of bank customer data

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Main Street Bank’s parent company, MainStreet Bancshares, has disclosed a data breach affecting some of its customers. The breach happened in March 2025 via a third-party vendor used by the bank. The company has filed a report with the SEC claiming “an outside vendor to the core bank had been compromised.” The incident involved hackers breaking into the now-terminated merchant’s payment card environment.
3 Adreno GPU zero-days exploited by hackers patched

3 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Qualcomm has issued security patches for three zero-day security vulnerabilities affecting its Adreno GPU drivers. These vulnerabilities affected multiple chipsets and have already been exploited in the wild. The three vulnerabilities are as follows:CVe-2025-21479: This is a graphics framework incorrect authorisation issue that can cause memory corruption. Reported by Google’s Android security team in late January 2025.
Chinese hackers are using Google Calendar to target governments

4 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Chinese state-sponsored threat actor APT41 is targeting government organisations with a malware variant using Google Calendar as a command-and-control (C2) center. The malware used is dubbed ToughProgress and uses calendar events to communicate with the attacker from the target system. The malicious activity was picked up by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
Fake AI software installers are spreading ransomware

4 weeks ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Illustration: JMiks | ShutterstockSecurity researchers have caught cybercriminals impersonating legitimate AI software to distribute ransomware to unsuspecting users. The campaign was also observed delivering infostealers, backdoors, Remote Access Tools (RATs), and other destructive malware. The ransomware variants being distributed include CyberLock, Lucky_Gh0$t, and a novel variant called Numero, which targets Windows machines.