Cybersecurity

How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts • Graham Cluley

A literal insider threat: we head to a Romanian prison where “self-service” web kiosks allowed inmates...

Hieu – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript All Hieu Minh Ngo wanted was to make money online. But when he stumbled into the dark web, he found...

Petya/NotPetya copycat with UEFI Secure Boot bypass

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware,...

Troy Hunt: Weekly Update 474

You're not going to believe this - the criminals that took the...

Threat Intelligence Executive Report – Volume 2025, Number 5 – Sophos News

The Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) research team analyzes security threats to help organizations protect their systems. Based on observations in July and August, CTU™...

Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT

The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target...

Sophos’ Secure by Design 2025 Progress – Sophos News

In 2024, we became one of the first organizations to commit to CISA’s Secure by Design initiative. Aligned with our core organizational values around...

Maverick: a new banking trojan abusing WhatsApp in a massive scale distribution

A malware campaign was recently detected in Brazil, distributing a malicious LNK file using WhatsApp. It targets mainly Brazilians and uses Portuguese-named URLs. To...

Clipboard Pictures Exfiltration in Python Infostealer

For a while, clipboard content has been monitored by many infostealers. Purposes can be multiple, like simply searching and exfiltrating juicy data or on-the-fly...

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet...

BreachForums seized, but hackers say they will still leak Salesforce data

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and France have seized control of domains linked to the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, commonly used for...

Oak Cliff Swipers – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript He started small, swiping cards, buying gift cards, and cashing out. It spiraled into a full‑blown criminal enterprise. Dozens...

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