Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space
How much private and sensitive data can you get by pointing $600 worth of satellite equipment at the sky? Quite a bit, it turns out.…
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 175 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days
Microsoft addressed 175 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including two actively exploited zero-days, the company said in its latest security update. It’s…
Officials crack down on Southeast Asia cybercrime networks, seize $15B
Federal authorities seized 127,271 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $15 billion, from Chen Zhi, the alleged leader of a sprawling cybercrime network based in Cambodia, the…
LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital…
Flax Typhoon can turn your own software against you
By Derek B. Johnson For more than a year, hackers from a Chinese state-backed espionage group maintained backdoor access to a popular software mapping tool…
Red, Blue, and Now AI: Rethinking Cybersecurity Training for the 2026 Threat Landscape
Cybersecurity today is defined by complexity. Threats evolve in real time, driven by AI-generated malware, autonomous reconnaissance, and adversaries capable of pivoting faster than ever. …
Fortra cops to exploitation of GoAnywhere file-transfer service defect
Fortra, in its most forceful admission yet, confirmed a maximum-severity defect it disclosed in GoAnywhere MFT has been actively exploited in attacks, yet researchers are…
Russian spyware ClayRat is spreading, evolving quickly, according to Zimperium
A fast-spreading Android spyware is mushrooming across Russia, camouflaging itself as popular apps like TikTok or YouTube, researchers at Zimperium have revealed in a blog…
SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal
A brute-force attack exposed firewall configuration files of every SonicWall customer who used the company’s cloud backup service, the besieged vendor said Wednesday. An investigation…
Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign
Clop, the notorious ransomware group, began targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers three months ago and started exploiting a zero-day affecting the enterprise platform to steal…
Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began…
Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul
Voting rights groups are asking a court to block an ongoing Trump administration effort to merge disparate federal and state voter data into a massive…