SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years – Krebs on Security
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today,…
Month: August 2025
BioCatch Trust wins best scam-prevention solution
BioCatch Trust has won the 2025 Fraud Impact Award for Best Scam and APP Fraud Prevention Solution. Launched in Australia in November of 2024 and…
OpenAI says GPT-6 is coming and it’ll be better than GPT-5 (obviously)
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman told reporters that GPT-6 is already in the works, and it’ll not take as long as GPT-5. The GPT-6 announcement doesn’t…
Britain targets Kyrgyz financial institutions, crypto networks aiding Kremlin
Britain targets Kyrgyz financial institutions, crypto networks aiding Kremlin Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2025 The UK has imposed new sanctions on Kyrgyz financial institutions and…
AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing the AI-powered Lovable website creation and hosting platform to generate phishing pages, malware-dropping portals, and various fraudulent websites. The malicious sites…
Tulsi Gabbard to slash US intelligence workforce by 40%, cut budget by US$700 million
The Office of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than US$700 million annually, the Trump administration announced on…
RingReaper Malware Targets Linux Servers, Stealthily Evading EDR Solutions
A new malware campaign dubbed RingReaper has emerged, targeting servers with advanced post-exploitation capabilities that exploit the kernel’s io_uring asynchronous I/O interface to bypass Endpoint…
Google Unveils Enhanced Features to Empower Defenders and Strengthen AI Security
Google Cloud has announced a suite of advanced security enhancements at the 2025 Security Summit, aimed at fortifying AI ecosystems and leveraging artificial intelligence to…
Russian State Hackers Exploit 7-Year-Old Cisco Router Vulnerability
FBI and Cisco warn Russian hackers are exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco Smart Install vulnerability on outdated routers and switches worldwide. Thousands of outdated Cisco devices…
FBI, Cisco warn of Russia-linked hackers targeting critical infrastructure organizations
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Hackers linked to the Russian government have…
Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old schemes that could make them…
Threat Actors Impersonate as Google support to sniff out Your login credentials
Threat actors are posing as Google support agents in an increasing number of complex social engineering attacks in order to take advantage of account recovery…