Layla, a woman in her 70s, was initially hesitant to reveal her bank details to a caller pretending to be a bank official and requesting an update of her ATM debit card. She surrendered when the scammer insisted her ATM visa card would stop working if she declined to cooperate. Strangely enough, the scammer...Read More
VECT 2.0 ransomware can leave victims with files that even the attacker’s own decryptor cannot reliably restore. While researchers previously exposed a cross-platform design flaw that discards nonces for earlier parts of large files, our Windows-focused analysis shows additional implementation errors that create more recovery gaps. These errors can leave files renamed, partially encrypted, inconsistently...Read More
Another week in information security means another week where AI is in the headlines, either because someone’s used it to bypass a platform’s security, or because hackers are using AI to supercharge their attacks and target more people. In the first case, we reported that hackers used Meta’s AI chatbot to gain access to high-profile...Read More
In our first jobs in cybersecurity, at the Pentagon in 1998, Greg Rattray and I had to help the Air Force to “normalize” cyber and other information operations. But was it more “normal” to treat such operations as an aspect of intelligence or instead as warfighting in a new domain? Our answer matters little to...Read More
Cybersecurity threats are something any business should proactively defend against to avoid becoming a ransomware victim and suffering reputation and revenue loss. Key threats include third-party breaches, AI-powered scams like deepfake videos, and autonomous ransomware models based on sophisticated code. Statista reported that 63% of global businesses were affected by ransomware attacks as of 2025....Read More
For every dark, depressing or just plain bad news story you read, there are countless people out there working toward a better world — shifting the narrative, shining light, and pushing back on the ills of society. Take this week, for example. On Wednesday, NC Newsline reported on the newly released 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment...Read More
The cybercrime wing of Cyberabad police arrested seven persons across multiple States in connection with seven cases detected between May 27 and June 2, officials said on Friday. Of the seven cases detected during the week, three were linked to trading frauds, two to ‘digital arrest’ scams, and two were categorised under operation crackdowns on...Read More
A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365 environments using the Brickstorm backdoor and previously undocumented malware named Plenet and AgentPSD. An investigation into the incident revealed that the threat actor had gained access to the victim network at least 18 months before detection, and had also compromised the victim organization’s...Read More
Terry Gerton You have a lot of background on a very important topic, CMMC. In fact, your company received quite a bit of attention last fall when you released a report that found only 1% of defense contractors said they felt ready for the CMMCs rules that were just then going into effect. We’re about...Read More
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images Critics of Meghan Markle always have something to say about her, so of course, people have opinions about her social media habits. Meghan has long been criticized for sharing details from her personal life on social media, including photos of her children, after previously taking a break from social media and saying...Read More
