Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps
Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It’s…
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U.S. Sanctions 10 North Korean Entities for Laundering $12.7M in Crypto and IT Fraud
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea’s global financial…
Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox
Nov 05, 2025The Hacker NewsMobile Security / Enterprise IT Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth, “Android isn’t secure.” Android phones, such as the…
Mysterious ‘SmudgedSerpent’ Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran–Israel Tensions
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Cyber Espionage A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting…
CISA Adds Gladinet and CWP Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation Evidence
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Gladinet and Control…
A Cybercrime Merger Like No Other — Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters Join Forces
The nascent collective that combines three prominent cybercrime groups, Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters, has created no less than 16 Telegram channels since August 8,…
Europol and Eurojust Dismantle €600 Million Crypto Fraud Network in Global Sweep
Nov 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Money Laundering Nine people have been arrested in connection with a coordinated law enforcement operation that targeted a cryptocurrency money…
Critical React Native CLI Flaw Exposed Millions of Developers to Remote Attacks
Nov 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Supply Chain Security Details have emerged about a now-patched critical security flaw in the popular “@react-native-community/cli” npm package that could…
Microsoft Teams Bugs Let Attackers Impersonate Colleagues and Edit Messages Unnoticed
Nov 04, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four security flaws in Microsoft Teams that could have exposed users to serious impersonation and…
Operation SkyCloak Deploys Tor-Enabled OpenSSH Backdoor Targeting Defense Sectors
Nov 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage Threat actors are leveraging weaponized attachments distributed via phishing emails to deliver malware likely targeting the defense sector…
U.S. Prosecutors Indict Cybersecurity Insiders Accused of BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
Nov 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cybercrime Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have accused a trio of allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies with…
Google’s AI ‘Big Sleep’ Finds 5 New Vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari WebKit
Nov 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Google’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity agent called Big Sleep has been credited by Apple for discovering as many…