The Zero Day Initiative is offering a $1 million reward to security researchers who will demonstrate a zero-click WhatsApp exploit at its upcoming Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking contest. [...]

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. [...]

Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors. [...]

Microsoft warns that a cyber-espionage group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is targeting diplomatic missions in Moscow using local internet service providers. [...]

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. [...]

The SafePay ransomware gang is threatening to leak 3.5TB of data belonging to IT giant Ingram Micro, allegedly stolen from the company's compromised systems earlier this month. [...]

Apple has released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks targeting Google Chrome users. [...]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the National Guard in response to a crippling cyberattack that struck the City of Saint Paul, the state's capital, on Friday. [...]

Microsoft has introduced Copilot Mode, an experimental feature designed to transform Microsoft Edge into a web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI). [...]

Orange, a French telecommunications company and one of the world's largest telecom operators, revealed that it detected a breached system on its network on Friday. [...]

Attackers could use a recently patched macOS vulnerability to bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) security checks and steal sensitive user information, including Apple Intelligence cached data. [...]

CISA warns that threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in PaperCut NG/MF print management software, which can allow them to gain remote code execution in cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. [...]

Microsoft has reminded customers today that the last supported editions of Windows 11 22H2 will reach their end of servicing on October 14. [...]

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. [...]

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking Microsoft 365 administrators with business or enterprise subscriptions from accessing the admin center. [...]

Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old woman from Arizona, was sentenced to 102 months in prison after pleading guilty to her involvement in a scheme that enabled North Korean IT workers to infiltrate 309 U.S. companies. [...]

Microsoft has removed a compatibility hold that prevented some Easy Anti-Cheat users from installing the Windows 11 2024 Update because of a known issue that triggers restarts with blue screen of death (BSOD) errors. [...]

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. [...]