Sophos Endpoint: Consistently AAA rated – Q2 2025 SE Labs Endpoint Protection Report

AI tools shook up development. Now, product security must change too.

A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc. “Through forensic analysis of his device,…

The recent report of how Volt Typhoon compromised systems at a water utility highlight security technologies and processes that helped detect the compromise and clean up the network.

In one of the largest coordinated law enforcement operations, authorities have dismantled Kidflix, a streaming platform that offered child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025,” Europol said in a statement. “On March 11, 2025, the server, which contained around…

The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more important security factor, and passphrases are…

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the Aviatrix Controller cloud networking platform has come under active exploitation in the wild to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said it’s currently responding to “multiple incidents” involving the weaponization of CVE-2024-50603 (CVSS score: 10.0), a maximum severity bug that could result in