Across the security industry, BitLocker is trusted to protect a device by default. Modern frameworks have adopted this to satisfy requirements for data at rest compliance. Our belief that least privilege principles combined with EDR are enough to contain most post compromise activity. Two novel Windows zero-day vulnerabilities just challenged those assumptions. As disclosed by...Read More
Combating spam and phishing attacks is now, thanks to AI, almost a full-time job. These hackers and criminals are constantly adjusting their attacks with increasingly clever social engineering, and now their latest target is AI itself. And sometimes even AI falls for it. Recently, Meta hastily patched a Meta AI chatbot security hole that allowed...Read More
OpenAI has announced the rollout of a new security-focused feature called Lockdown Mode, a protective setting designed to reduce the risk of sensitive information being stolen through one of the most persistent and challenging threats facing artificial intelligence systems today: prompt injection attacks. The feature, which is being introduced to eligible ChatGPT users across multiple...Read More
Ruag paid ransom to blackmailers after hacker attack Keystone-SDA The federally owned defence company RUAG has paid hackers a ransom. This was in response to a demand from the hacker group Akira, which hacked and blackmailed the RUAG subsidiary LLC in the US last autumn. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...Read More
Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative’s Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from roughly 16 yards (15 meters) away, with no pairing or physical contact, in a blog post published on June 3. By exploiting an unauthenticated Bluetooth interface and the absence of firmware signing, an attacker can...Read More
A new cybercrime group called Pink is targeting corporate data for financial extortion. Palo Alto Networks’ research division, Unit 42, first exposed this threat, believed to be linked with the broader Com network. The researchers tracked the group under the cluster code CL-CRI-1147, and reported that Pink launched a dedicated data leak site on 31...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Threat Intelligence / Cloud Security The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. “Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail...Read More
After graduating college, it’s not uncommon for students to further their careers by going to new cities, new states, and even new countries. For recent Rogers State University graduate Alyssa Allen, her career path was a significantly shorter one — from Herrington Hall to the Dr. Carolyn Taylor Center. ×
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28 Feb HACK BLOTTER: Cybercrime Arrests And Convictions Posted at 19:07h in Hack Blotter by Cybercrime Magazine From the Editors at Cybercrime Magazine Our weekly feed reports on law enforcement and police globally. We cover the latest noteworthy arrests, extraditions, convictions, sentencing, and release of cybercriminals globally. If there’s something you should know about, then we’re...Read More
Anthropic has published an analysis of cyber-related misuse of its AI systems, examining 832 accounts that were banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026. The company mapped the observed behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which documents tactics and techniques used by attackers. “These 832 cases are just a subset of...Read More
