Inside the trend of tech ‘spinouts’ solving real-world problems
Silicon Valley has created the impression of the archetypal technology company as founded by smart, young guns in a garage who tinker around to find…
Author: Cybernoz
US to deport Venezuelans who emptied bank ATMs using malware
South Carolina federal prosecutors announced that two Venezuelan nationals convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.S. banks in an ATM jackpotting scheme…
New Watering Hole Attacking EmEditor Users with Stealer Malware
A major security threat has emerged targeting developers who use EmEditor, a popular text editor favored by Japanese programming communities. In late December 2025, the…
Fake Captcha Exploits Trusted Web Infrastructure to Distribute Malware
Fake Captcha and “ClickFix” lures have emerged as among the most persistent and deceptive malware-delivery mechanisms on the modern web. These pages mimic legitimate verification…
Spammers abuse Zendesk to flood inboxes with legitimate-looking emails, but why?
Short answer: we have no idea. People are actively complaining that their mailboxes and queues are being flooded by emails coming from the Zendesk instances…
Ransomware, reputation, risk: Black Hat Europe in review, 2026 in view
Common failures in security that enable vulnerabilities to be exploited, as well as the politicisation of technology leading to its use by nation-states for cyber…
NIST is rethinking its role in analyzing software vulnerabilities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reevaluating its role in analyzing software vulnerabilities as it tries to meet skyrocketing demand for vulnerability analysis…
Microsoft to Add Brand Impersonation Protection Warning to Teams Calls
A new security feature for Teams Calling now alerts users to suspicious external calls that try to impersonate trusted organizations. The feature will begin deployment…
TrustAsia Pulls 143 Certificates Following Critical LiteSSL ACME Vulnerability
TrustAsia has revoked 143 SSL/TLS certificates following the discovery of a critical vulnerability in its LiteSSL ACME service. The flaw, disclosed on January 21, 2026,…
Halo Security Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance, Demonstrating Sustained Security Excellence Over Time
Halo Security, a leading provider of external attack surface management and penetration testing services, today announced it has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance…
CISA Updates KEV Catalog with Four Actively Exploited Software Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananJan 23, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited…
UK government ‘blindly accepted’ Iver datacentre environmental assurances, it is claimed
The UK government is facing scrutiny for failing to do its due diligence on the environmental impacts of hyperscale datacentres, after admitting its decision to…