Ransomware doesn’t hit all at once—it slowly floods your defenses in stages. Like a ship subsumed with water, the attack starts quietly, below the surface, with subtle warning signs that are easy to miss. By the time encryption starts, it’s too late to stop the flood. Each stage of a ransomware attack offers a small…
Google Cloud has announced quantum-safe digital signatures in Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) for software-based keys as a way to bulletproof encryption systems against the threat posed by cryptographically-relevant quantum computers. The feature, currently in preview, coexists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. “After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable security risk to Australian Government, networks and…
Thai police said it was expecting to soon welcome 7,000 human trafficking victims, forced to work on cybercrime scams in call centers in Mynmar, in a first wave of people being freed from captivity.
What is the Vulnerability?A recent authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software is under active exploitation as has been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-0108 enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication required by the PAN-OS…
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday revealed that a “sophisticated” attack led to the theft of over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its Ethereum cold (offline) wallets, making it the largest ever single crypto heist in history. “The incident occurred when our ETH multisig cold wallet executed a transfer to our warm wallet….
OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool. The social media listening tool is said to likely originate from China and is powered by one of Meta’s Llama models, with the accounts in question using the AI company’s…
One of 2024’s most active ransomware outfits has been asleep through early 2025, thanks to reality-show-style, behind-the-scenes drama.
In addition to using CVE-2018-0171 and other Cisco bugs to break into telecom networks, the China-sponsored APT is also using stolen login credentials for initial access.
Estonia and Monaco back up their citizens’ information to a data center in Luxembourg, while Singapore looks to India as its safe haven for data. But geopolitical challenges remain.