Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested
Law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Romania, Italy, France and the USA have seized and shut down Cracked and Nulled, the two largest cybercrime…
Month: January 2025
Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations
Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google…
Major obstacles facing Labour’s AI opportunity action plan
Among the takeaways from the Public Accounts Committee’s 30th January 2025 session looking at the government’s AI strategy is that achieving tangible results will require…
An international law enforcement operation seized Cracked, Nulled and other cybercrime websites
Operation Talent: An international law enforcement operation seized Cracked, Nulled and other cybercrime websites Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2025 An international law enforcement operation targeted…
DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse…
Hackers Can Exploit AI Platform to Achieve Root Access via RCE Vulnerability
In a critical development within the AI industry, researchers at Noma Security have disclosed the discovery of a high-severity Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in…
Ransomware news trending on Google
Smith Engineering Group Hit by Ransomware Attack Smith Group Plc, a multinational engineering giant based in Britain, has issued a public statement confirming that it…
Microsoft advertisers phished via malicious Google ads
Just days after we uncovered a campaign targeting Google Ads accounts, a similar attack has surfaced, this time aimed at Microsoft advertisers. These malicious ads,…
TeamViewer fixed a bug in Windows client and host applications
TeamViewer fixed a vulnerability in Windows client and host applications Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2025 TeamViewer has patched a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting its…
Major GitHub outage affects pull requests and other services
GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. “We…
Cybercriminals Hijack Government Sites to Lauch Phishing Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a persistent trend in which threat actors exploit vulnerabilities in government websites to further phishing campaigns. Based on data spanning November…
Halcyon Reduces Ransomware Downtime And Recovery Costs
Modern defensive cyber solutions, while impressive, have failed in the face of cheap and easy-to-create – and most importantly lucrative – ransomware, according to Austin,…