Co-creator of Empire Market dark web marketplace given 40-year sentence
Raheim Hamilton, 30, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a drug conspiracy charge and agreed to forfeit more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin and several p...
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FBI Seizes Flax Typhoon Hacking Tools Linked to Chinese Contractor
The FBI and DOJ seized domains and disrupted scanning and spear-phishing tools used by Flax Typhoon, a China-linked…
FBI disrupts Chinese hacking tools used to breach critical infrastructure
The FBI has seized seven domains used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon to operate two hacking tools, MicroScan and FishHub, used in a...
Leader of 764 pleads guilty, faces up to 30 years in prison
Prasan Nepal ran the nihilistic violent extremist network for almost four years and played a crucial role facilitating the grooming, manipulation and extorti...
Anthropic rolls out program for ‘long-term commitment’ to secure critical infrastructure, open source software
The critical infrastructure defense program will seek to pair Claude models, Anthropic engineers and threat research with the expertise of cybersecurity comp...
Routers on Trial, AI Found More Bugs - PSW #947
Lawmakers warn Google could expose Spirit Airlines data in $10 million AI training deal
The proposed sale would include about 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, employment contracts, employee and timecard records and payro...
Four US states allege TP-Link defrauded customers, seek damages
Four states sue TP-Link over alleged security misrepresentations and ties to China.
Ransomware attack disrupts Japan's IDCF Cloud used by govt clients
IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that cause...
DOJ, FBI seize Flax Typhoon-linked hacking tools Microscan, FishHub
The seizures of the tools, allegedly operated by the Chinese firm Integrity Tech, accompanied a warning from the FBI, CISA and NSA. The post DOJ, FBI seize F...
Ransomware recovery CEO indicted after allegedly paying hackers and pocketing millions
Zohar Pinhasi allegedly deceived ransomware recovery clients into a payment scheme disguised as a specialized service that helped victims avoid paying cyberc...
Italy’s Foreign Ministry Under Cyberattack as Embassy Sites Come Under Review
Italy’s Foreign Ministry is defending its website against a cyberattack, checking embassy sites and pushing for EU action to identify attackers. On the morni...
Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware
A malware campaign dubbed 'Midnight Mimosa' has been discovered on low-cost Android smartphones that ship with malicious software embedded in their firmware,...
International coalition seizes tools used by cyber firm behind Flax Typhoon
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Transforming MDR: How AI challenges and strengthens protection services
By automating a lot of the grunt work, AI makes enterprise-grade MDR affordable for SMBs.
FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails
Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious instit...
As AI gains autonomy, who remains accountable?
As AI takes autonomous action, organizations must keep accountability firmly in human hands.
ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories
The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself.
Hunt.io Finds New Infrastructure Of BraZetsu Access Broker Months Before Disclosure
Hunt.io traced BraZetsu ‘s infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated.
OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media
The two campaigns were rated 4 and 5 out of 6 for severity, the first time OpenAI has reported what it considers a high-impact influence campaigns. The post ...