2025
Google’s got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft’s $20B+ security biz
How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec Cloud Next Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.…
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and…
Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…
Don’t open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.…
Scattered Spider stops the Rickrolls, starts the RAT race
Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware.…
As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit
How will 'gutting' civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Analysis Slashing staff at the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, and scrapping vital programs, isn’t exactly boosting national security, say infosec and national security officials watching America’s digital defenses unravel in real time.…
Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised
Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot Oracle has briefed some customers about a successful intrusion into its public cloud, as well as the theft of their data, after previously denying it had been compromised.…
That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token
But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines That massive GitHub supply chain attack that spilled secrets from countless projects? It traces back to a stolen token from a SpotBugs workflow - exposed way back in November, months earlier than previously suspected.…
Alleged Scattered Spider SIM-swapper must pay back $13.2M to 59 victims
Crummy OPSEC leads to potentially decades in prison Noah Michael Urban, 20, of alleged Scattered Spider infamy, has pleaded guilty to various charges and potentially faces decades in prison.…
Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history
After 23 years, the privacy plumber has finally arrived to clean up this mess A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people's web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday to the Chrome beta channel.…