Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake
Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin ransomware administrators is fake. The…
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Microsoft asks customers for feedback on SSD failure issues
Microsoft is seeking further information from customers who reported failure and data corruption issues affecting their solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) after…
Why Certified VMware Pros Are Driving the Future of IT
By Brenda Emerson, VMUG President IT isn’t getting any simpler. For many, the cloud’s gone hybrid, AI’s moved in permanently, and security threats seem to…
FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting…
Scattered Spider hacker gets sentenced to 10 years in prison
Noah Michael Urban, a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to…
Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers
Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of…
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…
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…
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…
Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks
Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack.” Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is…
“Rapper Bot” malware seized, alleged developer identified and charged
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced charges against the alleged developer and administrator of the “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire botnet. Ethan Foltz, 22, of Eugene, Oregon, allegedly rented…
Why email security needs its EDR moment to move beyond prevention
Security leaders today are rethinking email security, not because traditional methods have failed outright, but because the threat landscape and business needs have evolved beyond…