Data Security

DKnife's modular architecture allows for a wide range of malicious activities, including hijacking binary downloads and Android application updates to deliver malware like the ShadowPad and DarkNimbus backdoors.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani reported that several government foreign offices, including the one in Washington, were targeted by cyberattacks identified as being of Russian origin.

The exposure, which did not compromise passwords or payment details, could have leaked user names, email addresses, IP data, and activity logs.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-67987, allows any user with a subscriber-level account or higher to inject commands into the database.

The study identified approximately 4.96 million IP addresses with publicly accessible .git directories.

Nearly 165,000 more accounts were discovered by leading South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang to have been impacted by the massive data breach in November, which was confirmed to have impacted 33.7 million users, reports Korea JoongAng Daily.

Automated investment platform Betterment was reported by data breach notification Have I Been Pwned to have had data from nearly 1.4 million user accounts compromised following a cyberattack last month, according to The Register.

TechCrunch reports that major U.S. government technology provider Conduent had data from over 25 million individuals confirmed to have been stolen as a result of a SafePay ransomware intrusion in January 2025, which resulted in government service outages.