News for July 13, 2025

News for July 13, 2025

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 12 Jul 2025


Why Are So Many Firms Suing Strategy Over Its Bitcoin Holdings?

https://decrypt.co/327259/why-so-many-firms-suing-strategy-bitcoin-holdings

 

The MFA You Trust Is Lying to You – and Here's How Attackers Exploit It

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-mfa-you-trust-is-lying-to-you-and-heres-how-attackers-exploit-it/

 

Secret Service seizes $400M in crypto, cold wallet among world’s largest

https://cointelegraph.com/news/secret-service-seizes-400m-crypto-cold-wallet

 

North Korean Hackers Exploit Apple Devices with NimDoor Malware

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-07-2025-north-korean-hackers-exploit-apple-devices-with-nimdoor-malware-26615203181738

 

Malware Surge Hits Android: Adware, Trojans and Crypto Theft Lead Q2 Threat

https://hackread.com/android-malware-adware-trojan-crypto-theft-q2-threats/

 

Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/phishing_platforms_infostealers_blamed_for/

 

Inside the ZIP Trap: How APT36 Targets BOSS Linux to Exfiltrate Critical Data

https://gbhackers.com/how-apt36-targets-boss-linux/

 

Posthaste: Copper theft is getting so bad Bell Canada is sounding the alarm

https://financialpost.com/news/bell-canada-sounds-alarm-copper-thefts

 

Ingram Micro Scrambling to Restore Systems After Ransomware Attack

https://www.securityweek.com/ingram-micro-scrambling-to-restore-systems-after-ransomware-attack/

 

SatanLock Ransomware Ends Operations, Says Stolen Data Will Be Leaked

https://hackread.com/satanlock-ransomware-ends-operations-stolen-data-leak/

 

New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong

https://www.quantamagazine.org/frauchiger-renner-paradox-clarifies-where-our-views-of-reality-go-wrong-20181203/

 

Russia’s St. Petersburg hit by major internet outage amid drone strike warnings

https://therecord.media/russia-saint-petersburg-outage-drones

 

How to Use Voice Typing on Your Phone

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-voice-typing-on-your-phone/

 

Gamers hacked playing Call of Duty: WWII—PC version temporarily taken offline

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/07/gamers-hacked-playing-call-of-duty-wwii-pc-version-temporarily-taken-offline

 

The Double Dip Recession Is Here | Danielle DiMartino Booth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7eISpB4u-s

 

Atomic macOS infostealer adds backdoor for persistent attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atomic-macos-infostealer-adds-backdoor-for-persistent-attacks/

 

Houses made from rice: Kyrgyzstan's eco-friendly revolution

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-houses-rice-kyrgyzstan-eco-friendly.html

 

Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Ivanti Exploits, MacOS Stealers, Crypto Heists and More

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/weekly-recap-chrome-0-day-ivanti.html

 

ABOUT THOSE 14 “INACTIVE” BITCOIN WALLETS

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/07/about-those-14-inactive-bitcoin-wallets/

 

Researchers Reveal Scatter Spider’s Tools, Tactics, and Key Indicators

https://gbhackers.com/researchers-reveal-scatter-spiders-tools/

 

Quantum machine learning improves semiconductor manufacturing for first time

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-quantum-machine-semiconductor.html

 

Activision Took Down Call of Duty Game After PC Players Hacked

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/08/2021225/activision-took-down-call-of-duty-game-after-pc-players-hacked

 

Infostealers-as-a-Service Push Identity Hacks to Record Highs

https://hackread.com/infostealers-as-a-service-identity-hacks-record-highs/

 

British-built Hawk-Eye software goes dark during Wimbledon match

https://thenextweb.com/news/british-built-hawk-eye-software-goes-dark-during-wimbledon-match

 

Employee gets $920 for credentials used in $140 million bank heist

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/employee-gets-920-for-credentials-used-in-140-million-bank-heist/

 

Peapods Finance Alerted to Suspicious Transaction

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-08-2025-peapods-finance-alerted-to-suspicious-transaction-26666298383930

 

How Ethereum Whales Use Loops to Leverage Stake Millions in ETH

https://hackernoon.com/how-ethereum-whales-use-loops-to-leverage-stake-millions-in-eth

 

Taiwan flags security risks in popular Chinese apps after official probe

https://securityaffairs.com/179687/security/taiwan-flags-security-risks-in-popular-chinese-apps-after-official-probe.html

 

IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute

https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-rolls-out-new-chips-servers-aims-simplified-ai-2025-07-08/

 

Additional 3 Trillion?!: Clark Slams Exploding U.S. Deficits, Says Markets Are ‘Delusional’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDZJZF-QyU

 

New Report Finds Billions of Leaked Credentials and ULP Files on Dark Web Are Outdated

https://gbhackers.com/new-report-finds-billions-of-leaked-credentials-and-ulp-files/

 

Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/suspected_scattered_spider_domains_target/

 

Bridging Finance's collapse leads to $1.4-billion lawsuit against EY

https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/bridging-collapse-billion-lawsuit-ey

 

Ripple Shareholder Linqto Files for Bankruptcy in Texas Court

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/26671213130809

 

Own Gold, but Avoid the Golden Haircut

https://dailyreckoning.com/own-gold-but-avoid-the-golden-haircut/

 

Exploits, Technical Details Released for CitrixBleed2 Vulnerability

https://www.securityweek.com/exploits-technical-details-released-for-citrixbleed2-vulnerability/

 

NASA Astronaut Shares Rare Picture Of 'Sprite' Phenomenon From International Space Station

https://ground.news/article/nasa-astronaut-captures-rare-phenomenon-from-250-miles-above-earth-see-photo-of-sprite

 

Pakistan’s Transparent Tribe Hits Indian Defence with Linux Malware

https://hackread.com/pakistan-transparent-tribe-indian-defence-linux-malware/

 

Cloud Seeding Company Accused Of Causing Texas Floods

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-07/cloud-seeding-company-accused-causing-texas-floods

 

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/browser_hijacking_campaign/

 

GMX Platform Faces Security Breach on Arbitrum

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-09-2025-gmx-platform-faces-security-breach-on-arbitrum-26716690944961

 

Carbon Qubits Break Record for Longevity in Quantum Circuits

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/07/08/carbon-qubits-break-record-for-longevity-in-quantum-circuits/

 

M&S confirms social engineering led to massive ransomware attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mands-confirms-social-engineering-led-to-massive-ransomware-attack/

 

Falcon Finance Stablecoin USDf Experiences Temporary Depeg

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-08-2025-falcon-finance-stablecoin-usdf-experiences-temporary-depeg-26664761928529

 

11 Google-Verified Chrome Extensions Infected Over 1.7 Million Users

https://gbhackers.com/11-google-verified-chrome-extensions-infected/

 

Did Quantum Fears Prompt a Bitcoin Whale to Make an $8 Billion Move?

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/07/08/did-quantum-fears-prompt-a-bitcoin-whale-to-make-an-8-billion-move/

 

33 Tons Of Gold, Silver Concentrate Hijacked In Mexico

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/33-ton-gold-silver-concentrate-hijacked-mexico

 

US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/us-government-confirms-arrest-of-chinese-national-accused-of-stealing-covid-research-and-mass-hacking-email-servers/

 

Server with Rockerbox Tax Firm Data Exposed 286GB of Records

https://hackread.com/rockerbox-server-tax-firm-exposed-sensitive-records/

 

Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/iranian_ransomware_crew_reemerges/

 

FUNNULL Uses Amazon and Microsoft Cloud to Hide Malicious Infrastructure

https://gbhackers.com/funnull-uses-amazon-and-microsoft-cloud/

 

New ServiceNow flaw lets attackers enumerate restricted data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-servicenow-flaw-lets-attackers-enumerate-restricted-data/

 

Security Vulnerability in TON Virtual Machine Addressed Before TVM11 Launch

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-09-2025-security-vulnerability-in-ton-virtual-machine-addressed-before-tvm11-launch-26707770046290

 

BTQ Launches Quantum Proof-of-Work Simulator, Delivering Demonstration of Quantum Advantage in Blockchain Consensus

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/07/08/btq-launches-quantum-proof-of-work-simulator-delivering-demonstration-of-quantum-advantage-in-blockchain-consensus/

 

Hackers Exploit IIS Machine Keys to Breach Organizations

https://gbhackers.com/hackers-exploit-iis-machine-keys/

 

Nippon Steel Subsidiary Blames Data Breach on Zero-Day Attack

https://www.securityweek.com/nippon-steel-subsidiary-blames-data-breach-on-zero-day-attack/

 

The World According to Rick Rule

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-world-according-to-rick-rule/

 

Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K+ downloads before Google removed it

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malware-anatsa-infiltrates-google-play-to-target-us-banks/

 

Investigation Underway After $40 Million Crypto Attack

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-09-2025-investigation-underway-after-40-million-crypto-attack-26717604046786

 

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

https://www.wired.com/story/a-giant-planet-and-a-small-star-are-shaking-up-conventional-cosmological-theory/

 

Focus Music for Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKOWLSzFqE&list=RDRwKOWLSzFqE

 

Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitcoin-depot-breach-exposes-data-of-nearly-27-000-crypto-users/

 

Linqto Founder Faces Securities Fraud Class Action

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-09-2025-linqto-founder-faces-securities-fraud-class-action-26718850717922

 

Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/qantas_begins_telling_customers_data/

 

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

 

Record-Setting Qubit Performance Marks Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computing

https://gizmodo.com/record-setting-qubit-performance-marks-important-step-toward-practical-quantum-computing-2000626126

 

Ex-CIA Boss John Brennan, Ex-FBI Boss James Comey Under Criminal Investigation

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-cia-boss-john-brennan-ex-fbi-boss-james-comey-under-criminal-investigation

 

How to protect your cell phone number from SIM swap attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/how-to-protect-your-cell-phone-number-from-sim-swap-attacks/

 

Supply Chain Attack Unleashed via Compromised VS Code Extension

https://gbhackers.com/supply-chain-attack-unleashed/

 

ZKSpace Faces Suspicious Transactions and Account Freeze

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-09-2025-zkspace-faces-suspicious-transactions-and-account-freeze-26720365367577

 

Record 24-Million-Year-Old Proteins Recovered From Fossil Tooth Enamel

https://ground.news/article/new-clues-from-2-million-year-old-tooth-enamel-tell-us-more-about-an-ancient-relative-of-humans

 

Qantas confirms data breach impacts 5.7 million customers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qantas-confirms-data-breach-impacts-57-million-customers/

 

BioSig, Streamex Target Gold Tokenization With $1.1B Financing

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/biosig-streamex-target-gold-tokenization-11b-financing

https://www.biosig.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/376/biosig-technologies-inc-and-streamex-exchange-corporation 

 

Microsoft confirms Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) sync is broken

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-windows-server-update-services-wsus-sync-is-broken/

 

McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/2014234/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-bot-exposed-millions-of-applicants-data-to-hackers

 

Schneider Electric Flaws Expose Systems to OS Command Injection Attacks

https://gbhackers.com/schneider-electric-flaws-expose-systems/

 

New System Lets Multiple Users Share a Single Quantum Computer

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/07/09/new-system-that-lets-multiple-users-share-a-single-quantum-computer/

 

Inside a 30,000 phone bot farm stealing crypto airdrops from real users

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/inside-30000-phone-crypto-airdrop-bot-farm/

 

Kinto Confirms Network Vulnerability Affecting Arbitrum Token Deployment

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-10-2025-kinto-confirms-network-vulnerability-affecting-arbitrum-token-deployment-26755390304370

 

Data breach that may have exposed 200,000 Ontario home care patients information ‘appalling’, MPP says

https://ground.news/article/data-breach-that-may-have-exposed-200-000-ontario-home-care-patients-information-appalling-says-liberal-health-critic

 

Red Hat Gives Developers Free Access To Enterprise Linux For Business Use

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/10/0112201/red-hat-gives-developers-free-access-to-enterprise-linux-for-business-use

 

NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/nca_arrests_four_in_connection/

 

SafePay Ransomware Uses RDP and VPN Access to Infiltrate Organizational Networks

https://gbhackers.com/safepay-ransomware-uses-rdp-and-vpn-access/

 

Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn’t allowed to have

https://www.vox.com/politics/419393/trump-tik-tok-letters-dispensing-power-king

 

AI malware can now evade Microsoft Defender — open-source LLM outsmarts tool around 8% of the time after three months of training

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ai-malware-can-now-evade-microsoft-defender-open-source-llm-outsmarts-tool-around-8-percent-of-the-time-after-three-months-of-training

 

ALERT:Their Secret Plan To Revalue Gold Was Just Leaked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEFN-4QQv-o

 

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-succeed-in-reversing-parkinsons-symptoms-in-mice-can-they-do-it-in-humans/

 

Researchers foil $10M DeFi backdoor in thousands of smart contracts

https://cointelegraph.com/news/venn-network-defi-backdoor-rescue

 

Weaponized AI Extension Used by Hackers to Swipe $500,000 in Crypto

https://gbhackers.com/weaponized-ai-extension-used-by-hackers/

 

6 Secret Service Agents Suspended Over Trump Assassination Attempt: Deputy Director

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/6-secret-service-agents-suspended-over-trump-assassination-attempt-deputy-director

 

Microsoft Outlook hit with hours-long outage

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/microsoft-outlook-outage-update.html

 

McDonald’s McHire Vulnerability Leaked Data of 64 Million Job Seekers

https://hackread.com/mcdonalds-mchire-vulnerability-job-seekers-data-leak/

 

PerfektBlue Bluetooth flaws impact Mercedes, Volkswagen, Skoda cars

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/perfektblue-bluetooth-flaws-impact-mercedes-volkswagen-skoda-cars/

 

A Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Actually Happening

https://gizmodo.com/a-bold-mission-to-hunt-for-aliens-on-venus-is-actually-happening-2000627704

 

Cyberattacks on User Logins Jump 156%, Fueled by Infostealers and Phishing Toolkits

https://gbhackers.com/cyberattacks-on-user-logins-jump-156/

 

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/on_call/

 

The TechBeat: 5 Data Breaches That Ended in Disaster (and Lessons Learned)

https://hackernoon.com/7-11-2025-techbeat

 

GMX Hacker Promises to Return Funds Following Exploit

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-11-2025-gmx-hacker-promises-to-return-funds-following-exploit-26790416755650

 

Rockerbox Data Breach Exposes 245,949 Users’ SSNs and Driver’s Licenses

https://gbhackers.com/rockerbox-data-breach-exposes-245949-users/

 

DEUTSCHE BANK’S SOLUTION FOR AMERICAN DEBT CRISIS IS A ...

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/07/deutsche-banks-solution-for-american-debt-crisis-is-a-knee-slapping-howler/

 

FBI Seizes Major Sites Sharing Unreleased and Pirated Video Games

https://hackread.com/fbi-seizes-major-sites-sharing-pirated-video-games/

 

The Collapse Has Begun - Shocking Trends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY56T85-qA

 

Patero’s Post-Quantum Encryption Secures Syllego’s DUST Platform to Enhance Smart City Cybersecurity

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/07/11/pateros-post-quantum-encryption-secures-syllegos-dust-platform-to-enhance-smart-city-cybersecurity/

 

The Food Is Poison & The Lobbyists Know It

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-11/food-poison-lobbyists-know-it

 

Tether to Cease USDT Support on Multiple Blockchains by September 2025

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-11-2025-tether-to-cease-usdt-support-on-multiple-blockchains-by-september-2025-26804234086570

 

SLOW#TEMPEST Hackers Adopt New Evasion Tactics to Bypass Detection Systems

https://gbhackers.com/slowtempest-hackers-adopt-new-evasion-tactics/

 

Citigroup Fires 30,000 Workers as Banking LAYOFFS BEGIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvCWUqwyo1U

 

14 Arrested in Romania for £47 Million UK Tax Phishing Scam

https://hackread.com/14-arrested-romania-47-million-uk-tax-phishing-scam/

 

Fraud experts warn of smishing scams made easier by artificial intelligence, new tech

https://ground.news/article/fraud-experts-warn-of-smishing-scams-made-easier-by-artificial-intelligence-new-tech

 

In Other News: Microsoft Finds AMD CPU Flaws, ZuRu macOS Malware Evolves, DoNot APT Targets Govs

https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-microsoft-finds-amd-cpu-flaws-zuru-macos-malware-donot-apt/

 

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/openai-to-release-web-browser-in-challenge-to-google-chrome.html

 

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/

 

Russian Basketball Player Arrested For Alleged Role In Ransomware Attacks

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/11/2254200/russian-basketball-player-arrested-for-alleged-role-in-ransomware-attacks

 

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

https://gizmodo.com/these-mini-nuclear-plants-fit-on-a-flatbed-and-thats-exactly-the-point-2000627089

 

DoNot APT Hits European Ministry with New LoptikMod Malwarel

https://hackread.com/donot-apt-hits-european-ministry-loptikmod-malware/

 

Economist Questions Bitcoin's Scarcity Amid Supply Redefinition

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/07-12-2025-economist-questions-bitcoin-s-scarcity-amid-supply-redefinition-26847244329810

 

Phishing attack on a county administration in Germany

https://www.odenwaldkreis.de/de/pressemitteilungen/2025/juli/it-sicherheitsvorfall-im-landratsamt/

 

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/airman_admits_dating_app_leaks/?td=rt-3a

 

Pay2Key Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With Incentives to Attack US, Israel

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/pay2key-ransomware-gang-incentives-attack-us-israel

 

Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/over-600-laravel-apps-exposed-to-remote.html

 

0G Labs Sponsors ETHGlobal Cannes Hackathon And Supports $275K Prize Pool

https://hackernoon.com/0g-labs-sponsors-ethglobal-cannes-hackathon-and-supports-$275k-prize-pool

 

Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6LaQIc5-founding-researcher-quant

 

Gentle melodies that bring peace and warmth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUwWqYLMtQc&list=RDiUwWqYLMtQc



 

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