4.4 Million US Consumers’ Data Stolen
A TransUnion data breach exposed 4.4 million US consumers’ Social Security numbers via a Salesforce hack. The attack is linked to hacker groups UNC6395. A…
Month: August 2025
Rethinking the Analyst’s Role in the Human-Augmented SOC
29 Aug From Pyramid of Pain to Pyramid of Influence: Rethinking the Analyst’s Role in the Human-Augmented SOC Posted at 11:02h in Blogs by Taylor…
UL NO. 432: Can You Summarize Your Work in a Sentence?
Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue > Unsupervised Learning is a Security/AI newsletter about how to transition from Human 2.0 to Human…
NightSpire Ransomware Group Claims to Exploit The Vulnerabilities of Orgs to Infiltrate Their Systems
Since its emergence in February 2025, the NightSpire ransomware group has rapidly distinguished itself through a sophisticated double-extortion strategy that combines targeted encryption with public…
Data Privacy Claims on The Rise as Evolving Regulation, Wave of Litigation, And AI Shape Future Risk Landscape
Cyber claims have continued their upwards trend over the past year, driven in large part by a rise in data and privacy breach incidents. The…
VS Code Marketplace Abused by Threat Actors to Deliver Malware via Trusted Extensions
A recently uncovered vulnerability in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace has allowed malicious actors to hijack discontinued extension names and slip malware past…
Abandoned Sogou Zhuyin Update Server Hijacked, Weaponized in Taiwan Espionage Campaign
An abandoned update server associated with input method editor (IME) software Sogou Zhuyin was leveraged by threat actors as part of an espionage campaign to…
Home Office ‘back door’ seeks world-wide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
The Home Office sought access to data and messages stored by Apple users on its cloud storage in the UK and overseas by demanding a…
My OpenAI Event Predictions (May 2024)
I don’t have any insider knowledge—unless you count the >Information > article > that just leaked about a possible Her-like assistant—but I think I have…
Top FBI official says Chinese reliance on domestic firms for hacking is a weakness
China’s reliance on domestic technology companies to carry out large-scale hacking operations—as highlighted by the U.S. government and its allies this week—is a weakness that…
Microsoft says recent Windows update didn’t kill your SSD
Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and…
New TAOTH Campaign Exploits End-of-Support Software to Distribute Malware and Collect Sensitive Data
In June 2025, a previously undocumented campaign leveraging end-of-support software began surfacing in telemetry data gathered across Eastern Asia. Dubbed TAOTH, the operation exploits an…