Threat actors have launched a deluge of cyberattacks during the first six months of 2025, resulting in record-high credential theft, ransomware, and data breach incidence, Cybernews reports.
CyberScoop reports imminent threats posed by quantum computing have prompted Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to introduce new legislation that would mandate the development of a federal quantum cybersecurity strategy, as well as the implementation of quantum-safe encryption pilot programs.
Cybernews reports that widely used email marketing platform Mailchimp was claimed to have been compromised by the Everest ransomware gang, which alleged the theft of a 767 MB database containing 943,536 lines of data from internal corporate files.
Cryptocurrency platform FTX Japan had personal and financial information from 35,668 users inadvertently exposed by an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket more than a year after its shutdown, Cybernews reports.
Cybernews reports that New York-based financial services provider RiteCheck Cashing had information from more than 68,000 individuals confirmed to have been exfiltrated following a cyberattack almost a year ago.
Major global tech distributor and service provider Ingram Micro had 3.5 TB of corporate data threatened to be exposed by the SafePay ransomware operation should it refuse to pay an undisclosed amount as ransom by August 1, The Register reports.
Seychelles Commercial Bank has disclosed the discovery and containment of a recent cyberattack that has resulted in the theft of its customers' personal information, following claims by its attacker, Security Affairs reports.
