A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of ‘Black Kingdom’ ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. The suspect, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is accused of deploying the Black Kingdom malware on roughly 1,500 computers in the United States and abroad, … Read more
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre warned that ongoing cyberattacks impacting multiple UK retail chains should be taken as a “wake-up call.” Part of the GCHQ British intelligence agency, the NCSC provides support and guidance to private and public sector entities following major cybersecurity incidents to protect the UK’s critical services. In a statement … Read more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. The administrative fines imposed by the Irish watchdog consist of a fine of €485 million for its … Read more
Microsoft has resolved an issue with a machine learning model that mistakenly flagged emails from Gmail accounts as spam in Exchange Online. Tracked as EX1064599 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the issue started impacting users on April 25 at 09:24 UTC, automatically moving emails erroneously tagged as malicious to the junk folder. “We’ve identified … Read more
Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be “passwordless by default” to secure them against password attacks such as phishing, brute force, and credential stuffing. The announcement comes after the company started rolling out updated sign-in and sign-up user experience (UX) flows for web and mobile apps in March, optimized for passwordless and … Read more
A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s internal Slack channels and stealing over 1.1 terabytes of internal company data. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a 25-year-old named Ryan Kramer created a malicious program in early 2024 that was promoted as an AI image generation tool on … Read more
A Ukrainian national has been extradited from Spain to the United States to face charges over allegedly conducting Nefilim ransomware attacks against companies. The suspect, Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, 35, was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and extradited to the U.S. on April 30, 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Stryzhak allegedly participated … Read more
Russia-aligned hacktivists persistently target key public and private organizations in the Netherlands with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, causing access problems and service disruptions. The situation was acknowledged via a statement by the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice. “This week, several Dutch organizations have been targeted … Read more
London’s iconic department store, Harrods, has confirmed it was targeted in a cyberattack, becoming the third major UK retailer to report cyberattacks in a week following incidents at M&S and the Co-op. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, Harrods says threat actors recently attempted to hack into their systems, causing the company to restrict access … Read more
Plenty of WordPress users rely on WooCommerce to sell physical and digital products. You can also use it to encourage your visitors to donate to your business. Donation Upsells for WooCommerce is a handy plugin that helps with that. It integrates with GiveWP, so you can raise money for good causes while accepting orders from … Read more