Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds
01
Aug
2025

Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds

Social engineering — an expanding variety of methods that attackers use to trick professionals to gain access to their organizations’…

SafePay Ransomware Strikes 260+ Victims Across Multiple Countries
01
Aug
2025

SafePay Ransomware Strikes 260+ Victims Across Multiple Countries

The SafePay ransomware organization has quickly become a powerful operator since its initial detection in September 2024, marking a startling…

The Lock and Code logo, which includes the Malwarebytes Labs insignia ensconced in a pair of headphones
01
Aug
2025

How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about…

01
Aug
2025

Cursor AI Code Editor Fixed Flaw Allowing Attackers to Run Commands via Prompt Injection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched, high-severity security flaw in Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI) code editor, that could…

SonicWall
01
Aug
2025

SonicWall firewall devices hit in surge of Akira ransomware attacks

SonicWall firewall devices have been increasingly targeted since late July in a surge of Akira ransomware attacks, potentially exploiting a…

Qilin Ransomware Sees Surge After Collapse of Dominant RansomHub RaaS
01
Aug
2025

Qilin Ransomware Sees Surge After Collapse of Dominant RansomHub RaaS

The ransomware landscape underwent significant disruption, marked by the abrupt cessation of operations from several prominent Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups, including…

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01
Aug
2025

VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private…

Meta Offers $1M bounty at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 for WhatsApp exploits
01
Aug
2025

Meta Offers $1M bounty at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 for WhatsApp exploits

Meta Offers $1M bounty at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 for WhatsApp exploits Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2025 Meta backs Pwn2Own Ireland…

01
Aug
2025

Increased Worker Pressure from AI

My latest depressing thought about AI is that with all the pressure to adopt AI and replace employees with automation,…

Pi-hole
01
Aug
2025

Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in…

LockBit Operators Use Stealthy DLL Sideloading to Mask Malicious App as Legitimate One
01
Aug
2025

LockBit Operators Use Stealthy DLL Sideloading to Mask Malicious App as Legitimate One

Operators of LockBit ransomware have improved their tactics, methods, and procedures (TTPs) to avoid detection and increase damage in the…

ChatGPT
01
Aug
2025

OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google

A little-known ChatGPT “feature” is now gone. It could be a good thing. On X, OpenAI Chief Information Security Officer…