A senior officer of Baruipur Police District said, “Based on preliminary assessments, we suspect that the young man committed suicide after hacking the woman to death, likely due to tensions arising from a strained relationship. Both bodies have been recovered and sent to a hospital for post-mortem examination. An investigation into the incident has been...Read More
A United States federal court has sentenced Aleksei Volkov, a 26-year-old Russian national, to 81 months in prison for operating as an initial access broker. Volkov played a critical part in enabling major cybercrime syndicates, including the Yanluowang ransomware group, to breach corporate networks across the country. His illicit activities resulted in more than $9...Read More
Below, Joe Tidy shares five key insights from his new book, Ctrl + Alt + Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet. Joe is the BBC’s first Cyber Correspondent and a leading voice on cybercrime. He has covered major global cyber-attacks and produced widely viewed international documentaries, including a high-profile investigation into Russia’s most wanted...Read More
Exploitation timelines continued to compress in enterprise environments, with newly disclosed flaws reaching active use almost immediately and older weaknesses remaining active years after disclosure. (Source: Cisco Talos) Findings from Cisco Talos’ 2025 Year in Review show how attackers combined rapid weaponization with long-term exposure spanning infrastructure, identity systems, and user workflows. Top-targeted vulnerabilities show...Read More
The Enforcement Directorate has identified proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 35,925.58 crore in 257 cybercrime cases up to February 28, a fact revealed to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, provided details of this finding in a written reply. The ED works closely with law...Read More
PLANO, Texas— Marquis Software Solutions, a Plano-based fintech vendor whose 2025 ransomware attack has impacted numerous credit unions, has now disclosed that the incident affected 672,075 individuals, sharply expanding the known scope of one of the most significant third-party vendor breaches to hit the financial-services sector in the past year. Marquis, which says it serves...Read More
The RAT module maintains regular communication with an attacker-controlled C2 server, executing commands to terminate its own process, change the working directory, list files and directories, navigate to the application directory, retrieve directory details, upload a file, execute Node.js code, and run arbitrary shell commands, among others. StoatWaffle also exhibits custom behavior depending on the...Read More
Recently, a dangerous new version of the hacking tool DarkSword appeared online, putting millions of iPhones and iPads in jeopardy. The tool, which was uploaded to GitHub, can be used by anyone to exploit devices running older versions of iOS, especially those that haven’t yet updated to iOS 26. Cybersecurity researchers are now warning that...Read More
The global defense cybersecurity market, valued at USD 26.35 billion in 2025, is on course to reach USD 77.41 billion by 2035, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 11.38% over the forecast period. This near-tripling of market value over a decade reflects the accelerating pace at which military organizations worldwide are committing capital...Read More
Recently, a dangerous new version of the hacking tool DarkSword appeared online, putting millions of iPhones and iPads in jeopardy. The tool, which was uploaded to GitHub, can be used by anyone to exploit devices running older versions of iOS, especially those that haven’t yet updated to iOS 26. Cybersecurity researchers are now warning that...Read More
