2025
Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5×
A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…
Supply chain attacks surge with orgs ‘flying blind’ about dependencies
Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.…
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins
Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…
UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise … payday loans
Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.…
Don’t panic, but it’s only a matter of time before critical ‘CitrixBleed 2’ is under attack
Why are you even reading this story? Patch now! Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active…
Beware of fake SonicWall VPN app that steals users’ credentials
A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites Unknown miscreants are distributing a fake SonicWall app to steal users' VPN credentials.…
The vulnerability management gap no one talks about
If an endpoint goes ping but isn't on the network, does anyone hear it? Partner content Recently, I've been diving deep into security control data across dozens of organizations, and what I've found has been both fascinating and alarming. Most security teams I work with can rattle off…
Four REvil ransomware crooks walk free, escape gulag fate, after admitting guilt
Russian judge lets off accused with time served – but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony Four convicted members of the once-supreme ransomware operation REvil are leaving captivity after completing most of their five-year sentences.…
‘Psylo’ browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address
Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple's App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for…
Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate ‘signed’ by the Los Angeles Police Department
Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China’s ‘Typhoon’ crews and has infected at least 1,000 devices, primarily in the US and…