This Is the Group That’s Been Swatting US Universities
A self-proclaimed leader of an online group linked to the violent extremist network The Com tells WIRED he is responsible for the flurry of hoax…
Month: August 2025
Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the…
Healthcare Services Group discloses 2024 data breach that impacted 624,496 people
Healthcare Services Group discloses 2024 data breach that impacted 624,496 people Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2025 Healthcare Services Group suffered a 2024 breach, exposing personal…
We’re All in Fractal Microcults
I think we’re all in microcults now. Fractal microcults. Infinitely small ones. Cults of one. Not everyone, of course, but so many of the people…
Microsoft details Storm-0501’s focus on ransomware in the cloud
A financially motivated threat group operating since 2021 has refined its technical tradecraft, honing its focus on cloud-based systems that allow it to expand ransomware…
Over 28,000 Citrix devices vulnerable to new exploited RCE flaw
More than 28,200 Citrix instances are vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-7775 that is already being exploited in the wild.…
CISA releases New ICS Advisories Surrounding Vulnerabilities and Exploits
CISA released three significant Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 26, 2025, alerting organizations to critical vulnerabilities affecting widely-deployed automation systems. These advisories highlight…
Cephalus Ransomware Exploits RDP for Initial Access in Latest Attack Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress identified a novel ransomware variant dubbed Cephalus, deployed in two separate incidents targeting organizations lacking robust access controls. This emerging threat,…
AI Excites and Depresses Me
I think, looking back, we might say that the first week of July 2025 was the start of AGI. Like, proto-AGI. All because of Claude…
Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
Aug 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Artificial Intelligence Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot…
Incident response planning cuts the risk of claiming on cyber security insurance
Although at their heart they focus on post-breach mitigation and remediation, cyber incident response plans are emerging as a very important cyber security control when…
This is Intelligence | Daniel Miessler
pnpm install -g ccusage I have a friend named Marcus Hutchins who doesn’t believe modern AI is intelligent. He thinks it’s basically autocomplete. We actually…