Ransom Cartel Leader Sentenced to 16 Years in U.S.
Ransom Cartel Leader Sentenced to 16 Years in U.S. Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2026 A U.S. court sentenced Ransom Cartel founder Maksim Silnikau to 16…
Month: August 2026
Hackers grow more willing to destroy, not just disrupt OT systems
Experts said the alarming trend has further stressed infrastructure providers that are already struggling with strong passwords, comprehensive logging and other basics. Source link
Capitol Hill wants to know if executive branch, foreign allies coordinated enough to combat scams
Senators from both parties Thursday probed Trump administration officials about whether federal agencies and foreign governments are coordinated enough in the battle against scammers, something…
US presses China over alleged scam bosses despite growing police cooperation
US President Donald Trump has personally pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping over transnational criminal organisations involved in Southeast Asia’s sprawling online scam industry, a senior…
NatJack exploits put NAT security assumptions to the test at Black Hat
NAT has been hacked before. Security researcher Samy Kamkar disclosed NAT Pinning at DEF CON 18 and Black Hat in 2010, an early technique for…
Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims
Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still…
Route Amazon Bedrock Guardrails interventions to Amazon Security Lake
Security teams investigating AI-related incidents need guardrail intervention data alongside their existing security telemetry. Routing Amazon Bedrock Guardrails violations to Amazon Security Lake makes this…
Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts
Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. The Federal Office for Information Technology and Telecommunication (BIT)…
SilverFox Hijacks Trusted Software and Kernel Drivers to Disable Security Tools
SilverFox has expanded its malware toolkit in a campaign that targeted a Japanese industrial manufacturer. The attackers used a fake invoice email to lure a…
Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds
For years, the security team’s job has been to defend against cyberattacks. New research from Proton suggests that job now needs to extend to a…
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions – Krebs on Security
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy…
The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop
Agentic AI has permanently changed cybersecurity by making it quicker and easier to discover vulnerabilities in software and fix them—or develop so-called exploits to weaponize…