The Next Evolution of Ransomware That No One is Ready For
For many years, ransomware has been associated with online extortion, causing businesses to become immobilized as they attempt to recover encrypted data. With cybersecurity teams…
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Cybercriminals Exploit EC2 Instance Metadata Vulnerability to Launch Attacks on Hosted Websites
Cybercriminals have launched a sophisticated campaign targeting websites hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances. This campaign, observed in March 2025, exploits a vulnerability…
New GenAI Supply Chain Threat: Code Package Hallucinations
Code-generating large language models (LLMs) have introduced a new security issue into software development: Code package hallucinations. Package hallucinations occur when an LLM generates code…
An Idea for a Web Application
How about a web app that filters meritocracy sites (Digg, Reddit, Hacker News) into new feeds based on thresholds of upvotes? So, one feed is…
Chinese law enforcement places NSA operatives on wanted list over alleged cyberattacks
China stepped up its allegations of U.S. cyberattacks Tuesday, with local law enforcement saying they were investigating three National Security Agency operatives they had placed…
Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack
4chan, an infamous online forum, was taken offline earlier today after what appears to be a significant hack and has since been loading intermittently. Members…
Why 78% of Security Leaders Are Rethinking Their Entire Cyber Strategy in 2025
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape of 2025, cybersecurity has reached an inflection point that has prompted an unprecedented reassessment among security professionals. According to…
ChatGPT Image Generator Abused for Fake Passport Production
OpenAI’s ChatGPT image generator has been exploited to create convincing fake passports in mere minutes, highlighting a significant vulnerability in current identity verification systems. This…
Fake PDFCandy Websites Spread Malware via Google Ads
CloudSEK uncovers a sophisticated malware campaign where attackers impersonate PDFCandy.com to distribute the ArechClient2 information stealer. Learn how this scam works and how to protect…
Oxford Mathematician Shows Decisions Six Seconds Before They’re Made
John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) shows Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and current…
Microsoft blocks ActiveX by default in Microsoft 365, Office 2024
Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three…
How and Why Threat Hunting Teams Investigate Linux Malware Attacks
Linux cyber threats are less widespread than Windows ones yet it can make them even more dangerous. Underestimated and under-anticipated, they stab endpoints and networks…