July 2025

Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records 2025-07-16 at 14:24 By Connor Jones Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Co-op Group’s chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization’s members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack – Scattered Spider is believed to

Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege 2025-07-16 at 13:22 By Connor Jones Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be ‘deep breach’ of Active Directory Exclusive  Aviation insiders say Serbia’s national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a

Arizona, Texas, Utah leading in US crypto policy: Chainlink 2025-07-16 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai At least 50% of US states have strong congressional representative support on blockchain policy, while 36% have an active pro-crypto task force. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitcoin ETF inflows show institutions ‘doubled down’ on BTC at $116K 2025-07-16 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin institutions have no desire to sell as BTC/USD drops $7,000 from all-time highs — in fact, they’re adding more and more BTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

CLARITY Act isn’t perfect, but it’s the bill US Congress must pass this summer 2025-07-16 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Bill Hughes The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act isn’t perfect, but Congress should pass it this summer to establish the US as the global leader in digital asset regulation. This article is an excerpt from

UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that 2025-07-16 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark Peter Kyle promised alternative to ‘ball and chain’ of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Comment  Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud

Deepfakes. Fake Recruiters. Cloned CFOs — Learn How to Stop AI-Driven Attacks in Real Time 2025-07-16 at 12:25 By Social engineering attacks have entered a new era—and they’re coming fast, smart, and deeply personalized. It’s no longer just suspicious emails in your spam folder. Today’s attackers use generative AI, stolen branding assets, and deepfake tools

Urgent: Google Releases Critical Chrome Update for CVE-2025-6558 Exploit Active in the Wild 2025-07-16 at 12:25 By Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score: 8.8), which has

New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code 2025-07-16 at 12:25 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an

Vitalik Buterin proposes minimalism as key to layer-2 blockchain success 2025-07-16 at 12:00 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responds to Jason Chaskin’s call for layer-1 blockchains to become Ethereum layer-2s, suggesting an approach to L2 design. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Security shop Adarma ceases trading, confirms it will enter administration 2025-07-16 at 11:30 By Connor Jones Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Crosschain swaps move $21B in illicit funds, up 200% in two years: Elliptic 2025-07-16 at 11:18 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Crypto criminals are using cross-chain tools like bridges, DEXs and coin swappers to obscure $21.8B in illicit flows across multiple blockchains. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto exchange BigONE loses $27M in third-party attack 2025-07-16 at 11:18 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas BigONE crypto exchange has confirmed a $27 million loss after a third-party attack on its hot wallet infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Google AI “Big Sleep” Stops Exploitation of Critical SQLite Vulnerability Before Hackers Act 2025-07-16 at 11:18 By Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in the SQLite open-source database engine before it could have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6965 (CVSS

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn’t make a mistake – forever 2025-07-16 at 10:48 By Mark Pesce CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line Column  Agentic AI will make jobs – but many will involve picking its