Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years, $13M Restitution for SIM Swapping Crypto Theft
Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime
A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S....
Weak Passwords and Compromised Accounts: Key Findings from the Blue Report 2025
As security professionals, it's easy to get caught up in a race to counter the latest advanced adversary techniques. Yet the most impactful attacks often aren't from cutting-edge exploits,...
From Impact to Action: Turning BIA Insights Into Resilient Recovery
Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means a growing number of risks, along with an increase...
Public Exploit for Chained SAP Flaws Exposes Unpatched Systems to Remote Code Execution
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Espionage
A new exploit combining two critical, now-patched security flaws in SAP NetWeaver has emerged in the wild, putting organizations at risk of system...
Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware
Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called...
⚡ Weekly Recap: NFC Fraud, Curly COMrades, N-able Exploits, Docker Backdoors & More
Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News
Power doesn't just disappear in one big breach. It slips away in the small stuff—a patch that's missed, a setting that's wrong, a...
Microsoft Windows Vulnerability Exploited to Deploy PipeMagic RansomExx Malware
Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on the threat actors' exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy the PipeMagic...
Noodlophile Malware Campaign Expands Global Reach with Copyright Phishing Lures
Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Enterprise Security
The threat actors behind the Noodlophile malware are leveraging spear-phishing emails and updated delivery mechanisms to deploy the information stealer in attacks aimed...
U.S. Sanctions Garantex and Grinex Over $100M in Ransomware-Linked Illicit Crypto Transactions
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday renewed sanctions against Russian cryptocurrency exchange platform Garantex for facilitating ransomware actors and other cybercriminals...
Simple Steps for Attack Surface Reduction
Aug 14, 2025The Hacker NewsEndpoint Security / Application Security
Story teaser text: Cybersecurity leaders face mounting pressure to stop attacks before they start, and the best defense may come down...
