On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the […]
Indian professor in California held in suspected child predator activity (image: X: @CollinRugg) An Indian-origin associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, has come under fire after a viral video posted by ‘People and Predators’ showed him being confronted in an alleged online child predator sting, as per reports. San Diego police officers […]
Security researchers have identified a sophisticated new tactic employed by Akira ransomware operators, who are exploiting legitimate Windows drivers to evade antivirus and endpoint detection systems while targeting SonicWall VPN infrastructure. This development represents a significant escalation in the group’s technical capabilities and poses serious challenges for enterprise cybersecurity defenses. Campaign Overview and Timeline From […]
Critical infrastructure cybersecurity firm OPSWAT has published its inaugural Threat Landscape Report, revealing key findings from over 890,000 sandbox scans conducted over the past 12 months. The report highlights a 127% rise in malware complexity and warns that traditional detection methods are falling behind, with one in 14 files initially deemed ‘safe’ by legacy systems […]
Making a stronger case for a zero-day abuse, Arctic Wolf said, “In some instances, fully patched SonicWall devices were affected following credential rotation.” Some accounts were also compromised despite TOTP MFA being enabled, it added. Both times, Arctic Wolf confirmed, a short interval was observed between initial SSLVPN account access and ransomware encryption. SonicWall did […]
Austin, TX, USA, August 6th, 2025, CyberNewsWire SpyCloud Investigations, now with AI Insights, empowers security teams to act decisively with finished intelligence built from billions of breach, malware, and phishing records. SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to its SaaS Investigations solution: the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that […]
The PPC Group is actively participating in the European research project XTRUST-6G (Extended Zero-Trust and Intelligent Security for Resilient and Quantum-Safe 6G Networks and Services – GA no. 101192749), contributing to the pilot deployment of its technological solutions in PPC’s existing e-mobility infrastructure. Within this framework, advanced technologies are being tested to ensure secure and […]
A new report by cybersecurity firm GuidePoint Security reveals a clever new method used by the Akira ransomware group to attack computer networks. Researchers found that following initial access into systems, the hackers have been using two specific software drivers to secretly disable security tools, a key step before deploying their ransomware. The discovery by […]
A sophisticated evasion technique employed by Akira ransomware affiliates, exploiting legitimate Windows drivers to bypass antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems during recent SonicWall VPN attack campaigns. The attacks, which have escalated from late July through early August 2025, demonstrate the threat actors’ evolving tactics to maintain persistence and avoid detection in compromised […]
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SpyCloud Investigations, now with AI Insights, empowers security teams to act decisively with finished intelligence built from billions of breach, malware, and phishing records. SpyCloud SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to […]
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