CISA Releases the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report

Teaching employees to detect malicious emails isn’t really having an impact. What other options do organizations have?

Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have disclosed that they are tracking a new cluster of activity possibly linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as Cl0p. The malicious activity involves sending extortion emails to executives at various organizations and claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite. “This…

The OPC UA communication protocol is widely used in industrial settings, but despite its complex cryptography, the open source protocol appears to be vulnerable in a number of different ways.

State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree – using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyber attacks themselves,” the…

Cybersecurity experts have released a decryptor for a ransomware strain called FunkSec, allowing victims to recover access to their files for free. “Because the ransomware is now considered dead, we released the decryptor for public download,” Gen Digital researcher Ladislav Zezula said. FunkSec, which emerged towards the end of 2024, has claimed 172 victims, according…

A combination of propagation methods, narrative sophistication, and evasion techniques enabled the social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to take off the way it did over the past year, according to new findings from Guardio Labs. “Like a real-world virus variant, this new ‘ClickFix’ strain quickly outpaced and ultimately wiped out the infamous fake browser…