Akira Ransomware Attack

Some fear frontier LLMs like Claude Mythos and Anthropic’s GPT-5.5 will lead to cybersecurity annihilation. Ari Herbert-Voss notes this could be an opportunity.

The popular HTTP client known as Axios has suffered a supply chain attack after two newly published versions of the npm package introduced a malicious dependency. Versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 of Axios have been found to inject “plain-crypto-js” version 4.2.1 as a fake dependency. According to StepSecurity, the two versions were published using the compromised…

Running a SOC often feels like drowning in alerts. Every morning, dashboards light up with thousands of signals; some urgent, many irrelevant. The job is to find the real threats fast enough to keep cases from piling up, prevent analyst burnout, and maintain client or leadership confidence. The toughest challenges, however, aren’t the alerts that…

The threat actor known as Bitter has been assessed to be a state-backed hacking group that’s tasked with gathering intelligence that aligns with the interests of the Indian government. That’s according to new findings jointly published by Proofpoint and Threatray in an exhaustive two-part analysis. “Their diverse toolset shows consistent coding patterns across malware families,…

As the summer event season kicks off, venue managers and security firms aim to make AI part of the solution for keeping control of crowds and protecting against cyber-physical threats.

The networking giant said this week that an employee suffered a voice phishing attack that resulted in the compromise of select user data, including email addresses and phone numbers.