US indicts 8Base ransomware operators for Phobos encryption attacks
The U.S. Justice Department announced the names of two Phobos ransomware affiliates arrested yesterday in Thailand, charging them on 11...
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US sanctions LockBit ransomware’s bulletproof hosting provider
The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, for supplying...
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Over 12,000 KerioControl firewalls exposed to exploited RCE flaw
Over twelve thousand GFI KerioControl firewall instances are exposed to a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-52875. KerioControl...
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Sky ECC encrypted service distributors arrested in Spain, Netherlands
Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands....
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Hacker pleads guilty to SIM swap attack on US SEC X account
Today, an Alabama man pleaded guilty to hijacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on X in a...
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Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks
Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that the company says was exploited in targeted and...
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Cyberattack disrupts Lee newspapers’ operations across the US
Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused...
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Police arrests 4 Phobos ransomware suspects, seizes 8Base sites
A global law enforcement operation targeting the Phobos ransomware gang has led to the arrest of four suspected hackers in...
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Microsoft raises rewards for Copilot AI bug bounty program
Microsoft announced over the weekend that it has expanded its Microsoft Copilot (AI) bug bounty program and increased payouts for...
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A Cybersecurity Leader’s Guide to SecVal in 2025
For many security leaders security validation has become a top priority. After the introduction of the Continuous Threat Exposure Management...
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Brave now lets you inject custom JavaScript to tweak websites
Brave Browser is getting a new feature called ‘custom scriptlets’ that lets advanced users inject their own JavaScript into websites,...
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Massive brute force attack uses 2.8 million IPs to target VPN devices
A large-scale brute force password attack using almost 2.8 million IP addresses is underway, attempting to guess the credentials for...
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