Deep dive into DragonForce ransomware and its Scattered Spider connection
Security researchers have conducted an in-depth analysis of DragonForce ransomware that initially emerged in 2023 and has since evolved into what it calls a “ransomware…
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ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users
OpenAI’s AI-powered ChatGPT is down worldwide with users receiving errors when attempting to access chats, with no reasons currently given. If you are affected, you…
Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack
In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak…
University of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack
The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in…
Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras
The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a…
FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations…
ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users
OpenAI’s AI-powered ChatGPT is down worldwide, and the reason is unclear. If you are affected, you will see errors, “something seems to have gone wrong,”…
Shai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets
The second Shai-Hulud attack last week exposed around 400,000 raw secrets after infecting hundreds of packages in the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry and publishing stolen…
Google fixes two Android zero days exploited in attacks, 107 flaws
Google has released the December 2025 Android security bulletin, addressing 107 vulnerabilities, including two flaws actively exploited in targeted attacks. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are…
Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts
Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities for the past 10 hours. According…
Renting Tools, Access, and Infrastructure
These days, the cybercrime ecosystem functions more and more like a subscription-based technology sector. Similar to the “as-a-service” model of legitimate cloud services, crime-as-a-service (CaaS)…
North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme
In an unprecedented intelligence operation, security researchers exposed how North Korean IT recruiters target and lure developers into renting their identities for revenue generation. Famous…