Global crypto payments gateway, CoinPayments.net is ceasing operations in the United States soon and has advised users to withdraw their assets before July 19th, 2022. The short notice given by the exchange via a private email left some customers suspecting if this was an "exit scam" or another mysterious incident. [...]

Thousands of Twitter users across the world are reporting problems connecting to the platform on both desktop and mobile devices. [...]

The record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that Cloudflare mitigated last month originated from a new botnet called Mantis, which is currently described as "the most powerful botnet to date." [...]

A newly discovered phishing kit targeting PayPal users is trying to steal a large set of personal information from victims that includes government identification documents and photos. [...]

For more than a year, North Korean hackers have been running a ransomware operation called HolyGhost, attacking small businesses in various countries. [...]

Security researchers have detected a massive campaign that scanned close to 1.6 million WordPress sites for the presence of a vulnerable plugin that allows uploading files without authentication. [...]

The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, a major release that brings new features to help users fight censorship easier. [...]

Microsoft is investigating user reports that MS Access runtime applications stop opening after installing this month's Patch Tuesday Office/Access security updates. [...]

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). [...]

Threat analysts have uncovered a large-scale campaign targeting Elastix VoIP telephony servers with more than 500,000 malware samples over a period of three months. [...]

Researchers following the activities of advanced persistent (APT) threat groups originating from China, North Korea, Iran, and Turkey say that journalists and media organizations have remained a constant target for state-aligned actors. [...]

The Matrix open network for decentralized communication has announced a record growth of 79% in the past 12 months, now counting more than 60 million users. [...]

65% of end-users openly admit to reusing the same password for one or more (or all!) of their accounts. Password history requirements discourage this behavior by making it more difficult for a user to reuse their old password. [...]

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing issues while trying to sign into, access, and receive emails on the outlook.com portal and via Exchange Online. [...]

After hitting Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the US, and the U.K. the Roaming Mantis operation moved to targeting Android and iOS users in France, likely compromising tens of thousands of devices. [...]

65% of end-users openly admit to reusing the same password for one or more (or all!) of their accounts. Password history requirements discourage this behavior by making it more difficult for a user to reuse their old password. [...]

The FBI warned that cybercriminals are creating and using fraudulent cryptocurrency investment applications to steal funds from US cryptocurrency investors. [...]

A court in Moscow has imposed a fine of $358 million (21 billion rubles) on Google LLC for failing to restrict access to information considered prohibited in the country. [...]

Unknown threat actors are using previously undetected malware to backdoor macOS devices and exfiltrate information in a highly targeted series of attacks. [...]