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Ransomhub ransomware gang claims the hack of Mexican government Legal Affairs Office

Security Affairs

Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. Today they are going to send me a report on the supposed hacking.” This is not the first time Mexico’s presidential office has been targeted in a hack involving sensitive information.

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FBI warns of malicious free online document converters spreading malware

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” Fake file converters and download tools may perform advertised tasks but can provide resulting files containing hidden malware, giving criminals access to victims’ devices. “To conduct this scheme, cyber criminals across the globe are using any type of free document converter or downloader tool. .

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Cloak ransomware group hacked the Virginia Attorney General’s Office

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Initially, the group published screenshots of stolen data as proof of the attack, now the whole archive can be downloaded from the leak page. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, ransomware)

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The popular xrpl.js Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack

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is the recommended library for integrating a JavaScript/TypeScript app with the XRP, it has more than 140.000 weekly downloads. Hundreds of thousands of applications and websites use this package, the package has been downloaded over 2.9 It is the official SDK for the XRP Ledger, with more than 140.000 weekly downloads.”

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Malicious Minecraft mods distributed by the Stargazers DaaS target Minecraft gamers

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“Since March 2025, Check Point Research has been tracking malicious GitHub repositories targeting Minecraft users with an undetected Java downloader.” Upon launching the game, the fake mod downloads a second-stage stealer, which then fetches an additional.NET-based stealer.

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BadBox 2.0 botnet infects millions of IoT devices worldwide, FBI warns

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Cyber criminals gain unauthorized access to home networks by either configuring the product with malicious software prior to the users purchase or infecting the device as it downloads required applications that contain backdoors, usually during the set-up process. 3 ” reads the alert published by the FBI. ” BADBOX 2.0

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Experts warn of a new wave of Bumblebee malware attacks

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Once executed, it downloads the payload directly into memory. “Once opened, the LNK file executes a Powershell command to download an MSI file from a remote server, renames it as “%AppData%y.msi”, and then executes/installs it using the Microsoft msiexec.exe tool.” lnk” that, once executed, starts the attack chain.

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