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United Natural Foods Expects $400M revenue impact from June cyber attack Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2025 United Natural Foods Projects (UNFI) expects a $350–$400M sales hit from a June cyberattack, with $50–$60M in net income impact. United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), the main distributor for Amazon’s Whole Foods, said the June 2025 cyberattack will slash its fiscal 2025 sales by $350 to $400 million. United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is a Providence, Rhode Island–based natural and organic food company. The largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty food in the United States and Canada, it is Whole Foods Market‘s main supplier, with their traffic making up over a third of…
This week at the International Conference on Cyber Security, Assistant Director Brett Leatherman spoke about the FBI’s efforts to counter the Salt, Volt, Flax, and other “Typhoon” cyber threats, according to a post by the FBI’s Cyber Division on LinkedIn. The Chinese Communist Party uses these cyber operations to collect sensitive data in peacetime and potentially to inflict damage during a conflict—ultimately in the hopes of reshaping the global balance of power. AD Leatherman recounted some of the FBI’s successes, such as initiating the takedown of a massive botnet, numbering some 200,000 infected devices, operated by CCP-sponsored hackers known as…
Researchers discovered a security flaw in Google’s Gemini AI chatbot that could put the 2 billion Gmail users in danger of being victims of an indirect prompt injection attack, which could lead to credentials being stolen or phishing attacks. The post Google Gemini AI Flaw Could Lead to Gmail Compromise, Phishing appeared first on Security Boulevard.
In brief Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company is going public via a merger with Cantor Equity Partners I. The firm will be led by Bitcoin whale and Blockstream Capital CEO Adam Back. It will launch with more than $3.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and $1.5 billion in PIPE financing. Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR) will go public with more than 30,000 Bitcoin after a business combination with Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO), a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with connections to global financial giant Cantor Fitzgerald. BSTR will open with more than $1.5 billion in PIPE financing on top of a balance sheet…
At Cisco, we believe that complexity is the enemy of security. Organizations today face an overwhelming number of tools, threats, and processes, all of which can make it harder, not easier, to stay secure. When security is complex, it creates blind spots, wastes valuable time, and diverts critical resources. That’s why we made it our mission to simplify and strengthen endpoint protection, empowering organizations to focus on what matters most: staying ahead of evolving threats. But we didn’t do this alone. Our customers guided us every step of the way. Listening to Our Customers We know that the best way…
Palo Alto, California, July 17th, 2025, CyberNewsWire SquareX announced the official launch of The Browser Security Field Manual at Black Hat USA 2025. In addition to a comprehensive practical guide to the latest TTPs attackers are using to target employees in the browser, this comprehensive manual features industry perspectives from leading CISOs from multiple Fortune 500 enterprises and other iconic companies, who share their perspectives on the evolving browser security landscape, the importance of each threat vector, and how they expect these attacks to evolve in the near future. Major contributors include: Rathi Murthy, CTO of Varo Bank, Fmr. CTO…
At the upcoming Black Hat USA 2025 in Las Vegas, Stellar Cyber will debut its Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) capabilities, fully embedded into its open, unified, AI-driven SecOps platform. See Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) capabilities in action at Booth 5642, August 2–7, 2025, or book your meeting here. ITDR marks a step forward on the journey to a human-augmented autonomous SOC, empowering security teams with identity-centric visibility and control—without requiring yet another tool or console. Identity is the new perimeter of attack in cybersecurity: According to Verizon’s 2024 DBIR, 70% of breaches began with compromised credentials,…
A newly identified Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) operation is using GitHub repositories to spread a mix of infostealer families. This campaign was spotted by cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos, who published their findings earlier today, detailing how the threat actors behind this activity are using the Amadey bot to pull malware directly from public GitHub pages onto infected systems. This operation surfaced in April 2025, but its activity traces back to at least February, around the same time Ukrainian organizations were being hit with SmokeLoader phishing emails. Talos analysts noticed a notable overlap in tactics and infrastructure between that campaign and the…
A 21-year old former U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and extorting at least ten telecommunications and technology companies in the country. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested in Texas on December 20, 2024 and indicted in the Western District of Washington on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records. In February 2025, the man pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon, for which Connor Moucka and John Binnswere had been indicted in November 2024, linking their activities to the major Snowflake hacking incident. According to the latest U.S. DoJ announcement, Wagenius was active in the underground cyberspace…