UN General Assembly Adopts Cybercrime Treaty

Sophos Firewall is once again pioneering new innovations.

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in preloaded Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz that could enable any app installed on the device to perform a factory reset and encrypt an application. A brief description of the three flaws is as follows – CVE-2024-13915 (CVSS score: 6.9) – A pre-installed “com.pri.factorytest” application on…

The lesson from the breach is not just about what went wrong — but what could have gone right.

In what’s an instance of hacking the hackers, threat hunters have managed to infiltrate the online infrastructure associated with a ransomware group called BlackLock, uncovering crucial information about their modus operandi in the process. Resecurity said it identified a security vulnerability in the data leak site (DLS) operated by the e-crime group that made it…

Data exfiltration was the most common malware in Sonatype report, with more than 4,400 packages designed to steal secrets, personally identifiable information, credentials, and API tokens.

Real IDs have been in the works since 2005. Are their security standards still rigorous enough in 2025?