Casting a wider hiring net.
The Feds look to cast a wider hiring net. Legislators focus on deepfakes. Cookie stealers bypass MFA on Google accounts. A Fast food hiring chat bot got hacked. Medusa casts her gaze toward extortion....
12 Jan 202429min
Unveiling the Shadow Strike: A zero-day assault on Ivanti VPN users.
A zero-day hits Ivanti VPN customers. CISA highlights an active MS Sharepoint Server flaw. Cisco patches a critical vulnerability. Atomic Stealer gets updates. Sensitive school emergency planning docu...
11 Jan 202426min
A pivotal global menace.
The World Economic Forum names AI a top global threat. The SEC suffers social media breach. The FTC settles with a data broker over location data sales. A massive data leak hits Brazil. Chinese resear...
10 Jan 202427min
Swatting on the rise.
Swatting is on the rise. LoanDepot, the Toronto Zoo and the World Council of Churches all confirm ransomware attacks. Iran-linked hackers target Albania. Sea Turtle focuses on espionage and informatio...
9 Jan 202424min
A conclusion on the xDedic Marketplace investigation.
The DOJ concludes its xDedic Marketplace investigation. A cyberattack shuts down a major mortgage lender. The Swiss Air Force suffers third party breach. An update on SilverRAT. The Space Force emphas...
8 Jan 202423min
Encore:Johannes Ullrich: Superhero origin stories and lessons that last. [Education] [Career Notes]
Dean of Research, Johannes Ullrich, relays his experiences from studying the hard sciences to his career shift to cybersecurity. Basic principles, superhero origin stories, physics labs and radiation ...
7 Jan 20245min
Diving deep into Phobos ransomware. [Research Saturday]
Guilherme Venere from Cisco Talos joins to discuss their research on "A deep dive into Phobos ransomware, recently deployed by 8Base group." Cisco Talos discovered that 8Base’s Phobos ransomware paylo...
6 Jan 202422min
Disruptions to the internet.
BGP attack disrupts Internet service. Data breach law firm breached. Remcos RAT returns. Poison packages in the PyPI repository. Hacktivist personae and GRU fronts. BreachForums impresario re-arrested...
5 Jan 202425min
