This Week In Cybersecurity: September 1–5, 2025
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This Week In Cybersecurity: September 1–5, 2025
News Stories Jaguar Land Rover Cyberattack Severely Disrupts Production Systems Taken Offline Jaguar Land Rover halted operations after a cyberattack ...
Cloudflare Confirms Salesforce Breach in Growing Supply Chain Attack
Cloudflare confirmed its Salesforce instance was breached through compromised SalesLoft and Drift integrations, exposing customer data in a campaign affecting 700+ companies. The company’s detailed ...
Hackers Threaten Google with Data Leak Unless it Fires Threat Intelligence Employees
Hackers calling themselves Scattered LapSus Hunters threatened to leak Google databases unless two employees are dismissed, linking their demand to recent Salesforce-driven phishing attacks.
SK Telecom Hit with Record US$96.9 Million Fine After Data Breach Exposes 23 Million Users
SK Telecom has been fined $96.9 million after a breach exposed 23 million users’ data, marking the largest privacy penalty ever imposed on a South ...
TransUnion Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 4.4 Million
TransUnion confirmed a cyberattack exposing data of over 4.4 million U.S. consumers, tied to Salesforce breaches attributed to ShinyHunters and UNC6395 extortion groups.
PromptLock Ransomware Uses AI to Encrypt and Steal Data
Researchers uncovered PromptLock, the first AI-powered ransomware generating malicious Lua scripts via LLM prompts. Though only a proof-of-concept, it highlights risks of weaponized AI in ...
Senator Wyden Demands Independent Review After Federal Court Cyber Breaches
Senator Ron Wyden is urging an independent review of federal court cybersecurity after breaches exposed sealed case files. Citing outdated systems and weak defenses, he ...
Gmail Breach Exposes 2.5 Billion Accounts in Social Engineering Attack
Google confirmed a massive breach exposing 2.5 billion Gmail accounts, with hacker group ShinyHunters exploiting Salesforce access through social engineering and launching large-scale phishing and ...
Researcher Harvests 270k Employee Records Exploiting Intel Flaw
Researcher Eaton Zveare found four flaws that exposed 270,000 Intel employee records via unauthenticated APIs and hardcoded credentials, then received only an automated “Thank You ...
PayPal Denies Breach Amid 16M Login Leak on Dark Web
A forum post claims 15.8 million PayPal credentials were leaked; PayPal says the data ties to a 2022 incident. Researchers could not verify the full ...
Cloudflare Confirms Salesforce Breach in Growing Supply Chain Attack
September 4, 2025
Cloudflare confirmed its Salesforce instance was breached through compromised SalesLoft and Drift integrations, exposing customer data in a campaign affecting
Hackers Threaten Google with Data Leak Unless it Fires Threat Intelligence Employees
September 3, 2025
Hackers calling themselves Scattered LapSus Hunters threatened to leak Google databases unless two employees are dismissed, linking their demand to
SK Telecom Hit with Record US$96.9 Million Fine After Data Breach Exposes 23 Million Users
September 3, 2025
SK Telecom has been fined $96.9 million after a breach exposed 23 million users’ data, marking the largest privacy penalty
TransUnion Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 4.4 Million
September 2, 2025
TransUnion confirmed a cyberattack exposing data of over 4.4 million U.S. consumers, tied to Salesforce breaches attributed to ShinyHunters and
PromptLock Ransomware Uses AI to Encrypt and Steal Data
August 28, 2025
Researchers uncovered PromptLock, the first AI-powered ransomware generating malicious Lua scripts via LLM prompts. Though only a proof-of-concept, it highlights
Senator Wyden Demands Independent Review After Federal Court Cyber Breaches
August 26, 2025
Senator Ron Wyden is urging an independent review of federal court cybersecurity after breaches exposed sealed case files. Citing outdated
Gmail Breach Exposes 2.5 Billion Accounts in Social Engineering Attack
August 25, 2025
Google confirmed a massive breach exposing 2.5 billion Gmail accounts, with hacker group ShinyHunters exploiting Salesforce access through social engineering
Researcher Harvests 270k Employee Records Exploiting Intel Flaw
August 19, 2025
Researcher Eaton Zveare found four flaws that exposed 270,000 Intel employee records via unauthenticated APIs and hardcoded credentials, then received
PayPal Denies Breach Amid 16M Login Leak on Dark Web
August 19, 2025
A forum post claims 15.8 million PayPal credentials were leaked; PayPal says the data ties to a 2022 incident. Researchers
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