Medusa Rides Momentum From Ransomware-as-a-Service Pivot
Shifting to a RaaS business model has accelerated the group’s growth, and targeting critical industries like healthcare, legal, and manufacturing hasn’t hurt either.
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CISA Layoffs Are a Momentary Disruption, Not a Threat
Layoffs may cause short-term disruptions, but they don’t represent a catastrophic loss of cybersecurity capability — because the true cyber operations never resided solely within CISA to begin with.
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Secure Communications Evolve Beyond End-to-End Encryption
Signal, Wickr, WhatsApp, and Cape all have different approaches to security and privacy, yet most are finding ways to make secure communications more private.
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SpotBugs Access Token Theft Identified as Root Cause of GitHub Supply Chain Attack
The cascading supply chain attack that initially targeted Coinbase before becoming more widespread to single out users of the “tj-actions/changed-files” GitHub Action has been traced further back to the theft of a personal access token (PAT) related to SpotBugs. “The attackers obtained initial access by taking advantage of the GitHub Actions workflow of SpotBugs, a…
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Have We Reached a Distroless Tipping Point?
There’s a virtuous cycle in technology that pushes the boundaries of what’s being built and how it’s being used. A new technology development emerges and captures the world’s attention. People start experimenting and discover novel applications, use cases, and approaches to maximize the innovation’s potential. These use cases generate significant value, fueling demand for the…
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Rafts of Security Bugs Could Rain Out Solar Grids
At least three major energy solution and renewable energy companies have nearly 50 vulnerabilities — many of them “basic” mistakes — indicating a lack of developed cybersecurity safeguards.
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Critical Ivanti Flaw Actively Exploited to Deploy TRAILBLAZE and BRUSHFIRE Malware
Ivanti has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security vulnerability impacting its Connect Secure that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22457 (CVSS score: 9.0), concerns a case of a stack-based buffer overflow that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. “A stack-based buffer overflow in…
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OPSEC Failure Exposes Coquettte’s Malware Campaigns on Bulletproof Hosting Servers
A novice cybercrime actor has been observed leveraging the services of a Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider called Proton66 to facilitate their operations. The findings come from DomainTools, which detected the activity after it discovered a phony website named cybersecureprotect[.]com hosted on Proton66 that masqueraded as an antivirus service. The threat intelligence firm said it
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CERT-UA Reports Cyberattacks Targeting Ukrainian State Systems with WRECKSTEEL Malware
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed that no less than three cyber attacks were recorded against state administration bodies and critical infrastructure facilities in the country with an aim to steal sensitive data. The campaign, the agency said, involved the use of compromised email accounts to send phishing messages containing links…
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Critical Flaw in Apache Parquet Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code
A maximum severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Apache Parquet’s Java Library that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source columnar data file format that’s designed for efficient data processing and retrieval, providing support for complex data, high-performance