NSO group slapped with $168m penalty for spreading Pegasus Malware
After an intense six-year legal battle, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has emerged victorious in its fight against the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group,…
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Oxford Uni adds cyber resilience module to MBA programme
The Saïd Business School at Oxford University is to introduce its first cyber resilience elective as part of its MBA programme, working with security readiness…
Masimo says cyberattack has impacted its ability to fulfill orders
Medical device maker Masimo Corp. is investigating a cyberattack that has impacted its manufacturing facilities and limited its ability to fulfill orders, the company said…
Play ransomware exploited Windows logging flaw in zero-day attacks
The Play ransomware gang has exploited a high-severity Windows Common Log File System flaw in zero-day attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges and deploy malware on compromised…
Top Ransomware Groups Target Financial Sector, 406 Incidents Revealed
Flashpoint analysts have reported that between April 2024 and April 2025, the financial sector emerged as a prime target for cyber threat actors, with 406…
AI-driven Deception and its Threat to Business
Deepfakes and disinformation are fueling fraud and business risks. Powered by advancements in large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence can create realistic images, cloned voices,…
OttoKit WordPress Plugin with 100K+ Installs Hit by Exploits Targeting Multiple Flaws
May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Web Security A second security flaw impacting the OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) WordPress plugin has come under active exploitation in the…
Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons
IT architects tasked with the design of storage systems for artificial intelligence (AI) need to balance capacity, performance and cost. AI systems, especially those based…
Canary Exploit tool allows to find servers affected by Apache Parquet flaw
Canary Exploit tool allows to find servers affected by Apache Parquet flaw Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2025 F5 Labs researchers released a PoC tool to…
NSO Group fined $167M for spyware attacks on 1,400 WhatsApp users
A U.S. federal jury has ordered Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group to pay WhatsApp $167,254,000 in punitive damages and $444,719 in compensatory damages for a…
SpyCloud Analysis Reveals 94% of Fortune 50 Companies Have Employee Data Exposed in Phishing Attacks
SpyCloud, the leading identity threat protection company, today released an analysis of nearly 6 million phished data records recaptured from the criminal underground over the…
Searchlight Cyber adds AI capabilities to summarize dark web posts and threads
Searchlight Cyber has launched new AI capabilities within its dark web investigations platform, Cerberus. The new Cerberus AI Insights feature summarizes dark web posts and…