Cybersecurity

Bytes over DNS – SANS Internet Storm Center

I was intrigued when Johannes talked about malware that uses BASE64 over DNS to communicate. Take a DNS request like this: label1.label2.tld. Labels in a...

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M – Krebs on Security

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges...

How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts • Graham Cluley

A literal insider threat: we head to a Romanian prison where “self-service” web kiosks allowed inmates...

MG – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript In this episode we talk with MG (https://x.com/MG), the brilliant (and notorious) hacker and hardware engineer behind the OMG...

Are cybercriminals hacking your systems – or just logging in?

As bad actors often simply waltz through companies’ digital front doors with...

Inside the Synthient Threat Data

Where is your data on the internet? I mean, outside the places...

Threat Intelligence Executive Report – Volume 2025, Number 5 – Sophos News

The Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) research team analyzes security threats to help organizations protect their systems. Based on observations in July and August, CTU™...

Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets

Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Data Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known...

Most frequently encountered malware and abused software – Sophos News

This appendix to our Annual Threat Report provides additional statistics on incident data and telemetry detailing the tools used by cybercriminals targeting small and...

Malicious package with AdaptixC2 framework agent found in npm registry

Incident description The first version of the AdaptixC2 post-exploitation framework, which can be considered an alternative to the well-known Cobalt Strike, was made publicly available...

TikTok Videos Promoting Malware Installation

Attackers are everywhere! They try to abuse victims using new communication channels and social engineering techniques! Somebody pointed my to the following Tik-Tok video:...

Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition – Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least two vulnerabilities that are...

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