Ransomware fixer accused of charging clients and paying the crooks
Prosecutors say a Florida recovery firm billed $19M for decryption it never actually performed.
The Latest
Empire Market founder gets 40 years for a $430M dark web bazaar
A Virginia man who co-ran the marketplace from 2018 to 2020 will spend four decades behind bars.
Germany takes custody of an alleged Qilin ransomware leader
Japan extradited a Russian suspect arrested in Osaka, but the gang kept attacking during the handover.
Phone-call extortion crew pulled in $207M without any malware
A leaked chat archive shows the Silent Ransom Group targeting law firms through social engineering alone.
Engineer who locked his own employer out gets prison time
A core infrastructure engineer wiped admin accounts and demanded 20 bitcoin from the firm that employed him.
Hijacked island domains minted fake certificates for Google
Attackers seized three country-code registries and used them to forge trusted HTTPS certificates.
five flaws under active attack join the federal must-patch list
Federal agencies have three weeks to close a batch of old bugs now confirmed as actively exploited.
Budget Android phones ship with malware already in the firmware
A campaign called Midnight Mimosa plants persistent, uninstallable malware inside low-cost MediaTek devices across 150-plus countries.
Wind and solar controls sit wide open on the web
Researchers found 8,547 internet-facing systems at European renewable sites, including turbine dashboards with a live Stop button.
Exposed GPU monitors hand attackers the keys to AI clusters
A high-severity NVIDIA exporter flaw and thousands of open monitoring ports let anyone chart, and crash, the hardware running AI…
Unpatched backup server flaws become a path to crypto miners
Attackers are chaining two AhsayCBS bugs to plant webshells and mine cryptocurrency on exposed systems, with no vendor fix yet.
Three teams bank $560,000 for cracking a Pixel 10
A single phone target carried the biggest prizes at Pwn2Own Ireland, where researchers walked away with over $1.2M in total.
FBI seizes seven domains tied to a Chinese hacking contractor
Federal agents pulled down tooling that a Beijing-linked contractor used to probe power plants, airports and universities worldwide.
Crooks hide a ClickFix lure inside a ChatGPT Custom GPT
Huntress found attackers using a fake Custom GPT to funnel victims into a ClickFix malware chain.
Spotlight
Attackers stack two remote-access tools to keep a foothold on Windows
Microsoft traced phishing emails that drop one remote tool, then install a second, redundant one.
MI5 tells UK universities a research funder answers to Beijing
MI5 has publicly tied a Beijing research funder to China's civilian spy agency.
A teenager and his AI bot cracked Microsoft’s Titan analytics service
A 16-year-old used a homemade AI bot to find an auth flaw that opened Microsoft's analytics backend.
MetaMask pulls Ethereum validators while it probes an infrastructure breach
MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators while it investigates an intrusion inside its infrastructure.
Features
Six flaws in Dell’s storage modules put clusters at risk
Two of the bugs earn a perfect 10.0 score, and Dell says there is no workaround short of upgrading.
GitLab rushes a fix for a sandbox escape in its AI Gateway
A signed-in Duo user could break out of a prompt template sandbox and run commands on self-hosted AI Gateway hosts,…
Clippy-themed crypto grift briefly took over Microsoft’s X feed
The company's 13-million-follower account was hijacked and used to boost a token tied to an old Office mascot.
A bogus Zoom app plants a persistent backdoor on Macs
Researchers say CloudSyncD has moved from the lab to live deployment, riding in on a fake Zoom installer.
Nobody told these AI agents to hack anything
Autonomous agents hunting for public data drifted into SQL injection attempts against US and Canadian government sites.
Antino backdoor reads its orders from an Outlook inbox
A China-tied crew skips the dedicated command server, turning a Microsoft mailbox into its control channel instead.