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Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks A federal court sentenced two cybersecurity professionals to four-year prison terms for their roles in BlackCat ransomware attacks that targeted multiple organizations. Key Details The individuals, who worked in the cybersecurity field, received their sentences following convictions tied to the BlackCat ransomware group. BlackCat, also...
China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists
China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists China-linked hackers have targeted governments in Asia, a NATO member state, journalists, and activists in a series of cyber operations detected in recent months. Cybersecurity firms report the attacks aimed to steal sensitive data and monitor dissent, with operations linked to groups backed by Beijing....
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events
Science news: Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, surviving mass extinction events by retreating into oxygen-rich deep-sea refuges. For millions of years, their evolution barely changed—until a…
Medieval Encrypted Letter Decoded
Sent by a Spanish diplomat. Apparently people have been working on it since it was rediscovered in 1860.
What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of software developers working on those systems failed to find. This capability will have major security implications, compromising the…
Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox
That’s a lot. No, it’s an extraordinary number: Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser. We wrote previously about our collaboration with Anthropic to scan Firefox with Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive bugs in Firefox 148. As part…
Fast16 Malware
Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It’s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet: “…the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software…
30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign
Cybercriminals have compromised 30,000 Facebook accounts through a phishing campaign that targeted users of Google AppSheet, a no-code app development platform. The attacks, detected in recent weeks, tricked users into entering login credentials on fake sites mimicking AppSheet’s interface. Attack Details The phishing operation involved emails and messages posing as notifications from Google AppSheet. Victims...
Cybercrime Groups Using Vishing and SSO Abuse in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks
Cybercrime groups have begun combining vishing attacks with single sign-on (SSO) abuse to carry out fast extortion campaigns against software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, security researchers report. These operations, which demand ransom payments within hours, target companies reliant on cloud services for operations. Attack Sequence The attacks start with phone calls mimicking IT support or executives. Attackers...
Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access
Trellix has confirmed a security incident involving unauthorized access to a source code repository. The cybersecurity firm disclosed the breach, noting that attackers obtained access to some of its proprietary source code. Incident Details Trellix detected the unauthorized access to one of its repositories. The company stated the breach allowed external parties to view and...