By Matthew DeChant, CEO of Security Counsel In late January, two days into the new administration, the Department of Homeland Security sent out a memo…
Microsoft says it partially mitigated a week-long Exchange Online outage causing delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages. While the company didn’t publicly…
Symantec’s threat hunters have demonstrated how AI agents like OpenAI’s recently launched “Operator“ could be abused for cyberattacks. While AI agents are designed to boost…
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has held a day-long secret hearing into an appeal brought by Apple against a government notice requiring it to provide…
The U.S. has succeeded in extraditing a suspected LockBit ransomware developer who was arrested last year. Rostislav Panev, 51, a dual Russian and Israeli national,…
The attorney general for California announced this week a wide-ranging investigation into the way companies collect, process and use consumer location data. The investigation will…
Dive Brief: Five technology vendors united behind adoption of cross-industry data safety standards Thursday. Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat jointly sponsored the launch…
Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update…
A new, surprisingly simple method called Context Compliance Attack (CCA) has proven effective at bypassing safety guardrails in most leading AI systems. Unlike complex prompt…
Dive Brief: A newly discovered ransomware strain, tracked as SuperBlack, has been used in a series of attacks targeting critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet since late…
The Black Basta ransomware operation created an automated brute-forcing framework dubbed ‘BRUTED’ to breach edge networking devices like firewalls and VPNs. The framework has enabled…
Mar 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware A 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national who is alleged to be a developer of the LockBit ransomware group…
