On July 2, 2025, the city of Coppell, Texas, fell victim to a ransomware attack orchestrated by the RansomHub gang, compromising the personal data of approximately 17,000 residents. The attack targeted the city’s IT systems, exposing sensitive information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license details. The breach, discovered after unauthorized access to municipal servers, underscores the growing threat of ransomware targeting local governments, which often lack the robust cybersecurity defenses of larger organizations.

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On the morning of June 26th, Hawaiian Airlines reported a major cybersecurity incident that disrupted its IT systems. Travel alerts were posted by 10:45 a.m. local time, confirming issues that impacted digital check-in, employee portals, and internal communications. The airline's Honolulu-based operations hub was at the center of the disturbance. While the cause wasn't initially disclosed, experts quickly suspected ransomware—a form of attack where hackers encrypt data and demand payment.

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British national Kai West, 25, known online as IntelBroker, was arrested in France in February 2025 and now faces extradition to the U.S. The unsealed indictment from the Southern District of New York accuses him of orchestrating a transnational cybercrime operation that inflicted over $25 million in damages from 2022 to 2025.

Under his alias IntelBroker—and sometimes ‘Kyle Northern’—West ran a cybercriminal operation on BreachForums, reportedly posting more than 158 threads offering stolen data from over 40 companies, including Cisco, Apple, Deloitte, Europol, and more. Many sales were priced in Monero or Bitcoin, with at least $2 million in proceeds.

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On June 12, Aflac detected unauthorized activity on its U.S. network and shut it down within hours—a response detailed in its June 20 SEC filing and press release. There was no ransomware involved, and core operations continued uninterrupted.

Aflac cautions that files containing Social Security numbers, health records, claims data, employee and agent information may have been accessed. The full scale remains unknown, as the review process is ongoing.

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You might want to sit up for this one because a recent report just dropped a bombshell: around a million SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) codes were intercepted. Yep, those little six-digit codes that are supposed to keep your accounts super secure? They’ve been passing through some shady hands. According to a whistleblower in the tech industry, these codes went through an obscure foreign company with ties to government intelligence and digital surveillance firms. This news, reported by 9to5Mac, is a wake-up call about the vulnerabilities of SMS-based 2FA. Let’s dive into what this means and what you can do to protect yourself.

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The U.S. State Department just put a $10 million bounty on the table for info on Iranian hackers tied to a nasty piece of malware called IOControl. This isn’t your average computer virus—it’s a cyberweapon targeting critical infrastructure like water systems, fuel pumps, and industrial controls in the U.S. and beyond. The hackers, linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) through a group called CyberAv3ngers, are causing major headaches by messing with everything from routers to gas station systems.

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Buckle up because the FBI just dropped a major warning about a cyberattack wave that’s hitting hard. The Play ransomware, linked to some seriously shady groups, has seen a skyrocketing number of victims in May 2025, targeting businesses and critical infrastructure across the Americas and Europe. This isn’t just a random hack—it’s a coordinated attack that’s wreaking havoc. 

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A large-scale account takeover (ATO) campaign, dubbed UNK_SneakyStrike, targeted over 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts across approximately 100 cloud tenants, as reported by The Hacker News on June 12, 2025. The campaign, which peaked in January 2025 with 16,500 accounts targeted in a single day, exploits the open-source penetration testing tool TeamFiltration to conduct password-spraying attacks. These attacks, aimed at Microsoft 365 services like Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, highlight the growing misuse of legitimate tools for malicious purposes, compromising hundreds of organizations worldwide.

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A staggering 269,552 websites were infected with the JSFireTruck JavaScript malware between March 26 and April 25, 2025, according to a report by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, published on June 13, 2025. This large-scale campaign, which peaked with over 50,000 compromised web pages on April 12, uses sophisticated obfuscation techniques like JSFuck to evade detection. The malware redirects visitors from search engines to malicious sites hosting fake CAPTCHAs, tech support scams, and additional malware, posing a significant threat to unsuspecting users. The campaign’s scale and stealth highlight the growing challenge of securing websites against advanced cyber threats.

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A recent report highlights cybersecurity as a pressing concern for businesses worldwide. Drawing insights from 1,200 business leaders across more than 20 countries, the report reveals that approximately 75% of respondents experienced heightened anxiety about cybersecurity and privacy over the past year. Malware, flagged by nearly half of those surveyed, and data extortion, cited by over a third, dominate these fears. Against a backdrop of escalating global tensions, the findings emphasize the urgent need for organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity measures to counter increasingly sophisticated threats.

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