Bulletproof hosting service Zservers/XHost had 127 of its servers confirmed to be sequestered by the Dutch police just days after the service was sanctioned by the U.S., UK, and Australian authorities over its association with the LockBit ransomware operation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Newly appointed U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been urged by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., to oppose the UK's reported order for Apple to develop a backdoor that would enable government access to encrypted iCloud data, which they argued to be detrimental to U.S. government and citizen data security, according to The Register.
Operations of the Virginia Attorney General's office were reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch to have been significantly impacted by a cyberattack this week, which took down most of its computer systems, according to The Associated Press.
SecurityWeek reports that open-source database management system PostgreSQL has been impacted by a new zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-1094, which has been leveraged as part of the attacks against vulnerable BeyondTrust Remote Support systems that impacted the U.S. Treasury Department.
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