July 24, 2025 - Cyber Briefing

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👉 What's going on in the cyber world today? 

Interlock ransomware uses drive-by downloads and double extortion across Windows/Linux, WordPress sites hit by a stealth mu-plugins backdoor (wp-index.php), and GitLab rushes patches for high-sev XSS in the K8s proxy. Beluga Vodka battles a crippling ransomware hit, France Travail leaks data on 340k jobseekers via an infostealer-compromised partner, and Chinese actors exploit on-prem SharePoint to breach hundreds of orgs. Sam Altman warns of an AI-driven fraud wave (esp. voice auth), Europol nabs the XSS.is admin in Kyiv, and Google launches OSS Rebuild to harden the open-source supply chain..

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