⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [6 Jan]
Jan 06, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan
Every tap, click, and swipe we make online shapes our digital lives, but it also opens doors—some we never meant to unlock. Extensions we trust, assistants...
New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits
Dec 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Compliance
The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with...
Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
Dec 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware
A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company's network in...
LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages
A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation since its inception in...
CISA and FBI Raise Alerts on Exploited Flaws and Expanding HiatusRAT Campaign
Dec 17, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / IoT Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing...
⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips
Dec 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threats / Weekly Recap
This past week has been packed with unsettling developments in the world of cybersecurity. From silent but serious attacks on popular business...
FBI Busts Rydox Marketplace with 7,600 PII Sales, Cryptocurrency Worth $225K Seized
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the shutdown of an illicit marketplace called Rydox ("rydoxru" and "rydoxcc") for selling stolen personal information, access devices, and other...
U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls
Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Breach
The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020.
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Microsoft Fixes 72 Flaws, Including Patch for Actively Exploited CLFS Vulnerability
Microsoft closed out its Patch Tuesday updates for 2024 with fixes for a total of 72 security flaws spanning its software portfolio, including one that it said has been...
ZLoader Malware Returns With DNS Tunneling to Stealthily Mask C2 Comms
Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the ZLoader malware that employs a Domain Name System (DNS) tunnel for command-and-control (C2) communications, indicating...
