The British government has announced its preparation for a bold and decisive move in the fight against cybercrime—a sweeping ban on ransom payments following ransomware attacks. This new prohibition will apply to public sector...
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Chenguang Gong, a 59-year-old engineer from Silicon Valley holding dual citizenship in the United States and China, has pleaded guilty to the theft of over 3,600 confidential documents containing critical military technology developments. Among the...
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Microsoft has released the preview cumulative update KB5062660 for Windows 11 version 24H2, introducing 29 new features and enhancements. As part of the traditional end-of-month optional update cycle, this release does not include security...
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In the latest security update for Windows Server 2019, released on July 8, a critical flaw has emerged—one that threatens the stability of entire clustered infrastructures. Patch KB5062557 disrupts the proper functioning of the...
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spraycharles Low and slow password spraying tool, designed to spray on an interval over a long period of time. Includes spraying plugins for Office365, OWA, EWS, Okta, ADFS, Cisco SSL VPN, Citrix Netscaler, Sonciwall, NTLM over HTTP, and SMB. Associated blog post by @sprocket_ed covering NTLM over HTTP,...
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Dell has officially confirmed a cybersecurity breach and subsequent data leak within its IT environment, while emphasizing that the compromised files hold no real value. According to the company, the leaked data primarily consists...
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Google has released the findings of its investigations into coordinated influence operations conducted across its platforms during the second quarter of 2025. In total, more than 11,000 accounts and assets were removed, including 10,910...
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PyWhisker pyWhisker is a Python equivalent of the original Whisker made by Elad Shamir and written in C#. This tool allows users to manipulate the msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute of a target user/computer to obtain full control over that object. It’s...
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Microsoft has unveiled an enhanced data migration feature designed to ease the transition for users moving from Windows 10, whose official support will end in less than three months. This new tool enables the...
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Amid the relentless surge of digital threats, companies across the globe find themselves under a barrage of cyberattacks. According to the latest data from Check Point Research, each organization now endures an average of...
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Cybercriminals are mastering increasingly sophisticated methods of delivering malicious code, leveraging unconventional file formats to evade security defenses. A recent case documented by researchers illustrates how a seemingly innocuous audio message in WAV format...
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ExpressVPN has resolved a vulnerability in its Windows client that allowed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections to bypass the VPN tunnel, thereby exposing users’ real IP addresses. The issue affected versions 12.97 through 12.101.0.2-beta...
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This past weekend, Indian cryptocurrency platform CoinDCX suffered a large-scale cyberattack, resulting in the theft of over $44 million in digital assets. The breach affected only the company’s internal operational account, with user funds...
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The Chinese cyber group known as SilverFox, active since June 2023, has launched one of the most expansive malware distribution campaigns targeting Windows to date. Focusing on Chinese-speaking users worldwide—including business professionals operating outside...
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An eBPF agent that captures traffic flowing through the Linux kernel. By attaching to TLS/SSL functions, data is intercepted before and after encryption and then passed to flexible plugins with full visibility along with...
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Over the past several months, researchers at Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) have been closely monitoring a large-scale and technically sophisticated phishing campaign known as Scanception. Its hallmark lies in the use of...
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Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has issued a warning about a new wave of extortion emerging within the platform. The scheme involves fraudsters demanding that users surrender valuable digital assets—rare Telegram gifts, premium...
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The China-linked cyber-espionage group APT41 has launched a new surveillance campaign targeting government IT services in Africa—an unexpected turn for a region previously considered an unlikely target. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab uncovered the operation...
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Cybersecurity specialists at cside have uncovered a vast and covert cryptocurrency mining campaign that has compromised over 3,500 websites—marking the largest incident of its kind in recent years and signaling the resurgence of tactics...
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Turkish cybersecurity experts at Malwation have uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign targeting enterprises in the defense and aerospace sectors. Threat actors are disguising malicious attachments as official documents purportedly issued by TUSAŞ, Turkey’s state-owned...
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