SANS Institute Launches AI Cybersecurity Hackathon

The intelligence-gathering cyber campaign introduces the novel HazyBeacon backdoor and uses legitimate cloud communication channels for command-and-control (C2) and exfiltration to hide its malicious activities.

The alleged administrator of the LeakBase cybercrime forum has been arrested by Russian law enforcement authorities, state media reported Thursday. According to TASS and MVD Media, a news website linked to the Russian Interior Ministry, the suspect is a resident of the city of Taganrog. The suspect is said to have been detained for creating…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS score: 2.8) – Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file…

AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, and false positives add hidden costs. Are the productivity gains worth it?

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…