Cybersecurity

Chinese Hackers Deploy MarsSnake Backdoor in Multi-Year Attack on Saudi Organization

May 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage Threat hunters have exposed the tactics of a China-aligned threat actor called UnsolicitedBooker that targeted an unnamed international...

Kaspersky industrial threat report for Q1 2025

Trends Relative stability from quarter to quarter. The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked remained unchanged from Q4 2024 at 21.9%....

xorsearch.py: Python Functions – SANS Internet Storm Center

A couple years ago I published tool xorsearch.py for this diary entry: "Small Challenge: A Simple Word Maldoc - Part 4". It could be used...

Prescription For Disaster: Sensitive Patient Data Leaked in Ascension Breach

Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare companies in the United States, has confirmed that the personal data of some 437,329 patients has been...

Rachel – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript Rachel Tobac is a social engineer. In this episode we hear how she got started doing this and a...

Can we counter online disinformation?

Ever wondered why a lie can spread faster than the truth? Tune...

Weekly Update 451

The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I've often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at...

NICKEL TAPESTRY expands fraudulent worker operations – Sophos News

With this post, the X-Ops blog is thrilled to present research from our Sophos siblings newly joining us from Secureworks, of which CTU (the...

Fake AI Tools Used to Spread Noodlophile Malware, Targeting 62,000+ via Facebook Lures

May 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Artificial Intelligence Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into...

Lumma Stealer, coming and going – Sophos News

In September 2024, a threat hunt across Sophos Managed Detection and Response’s telemetry uncovered a Lumma Stealer campaign using fake CAPTCHA sites that instructed...

Kaspersky ransomware report for 2024

Global ransomware trends and numbers With the International Anti-Ransomware Day just around the corner on May 12, Kaspersky explores the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape and...

No Internet Access? SSH to the Rescue!

This quick diary is a perfect example of why I love Linux (or UNIX in general) operating system. There is always a way to...

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