Cloudflare recorded a dramatic decline in the number of DDoS attacks during the second quarter of 2025, mitigating 7.3 million incidents—down sharply from the 20.5 million reported in the first quarter. However, despite the...
Hackers have devised a method to conceal malware in places where detection is nearly impossible—in DNS records that map domain names to IP addresses. This technique enables the delivery of malicious binaries without relying...
Bolthole A proof-of-concept ClickOnce payload for Red Teams to establish initial access in authorized penetration tests. Overview Bolthole provides operators with: Reverse SSH tunnel into the target environment CMD shell access as the executing...
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled a new program titled the Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI), aimed at deepening collaboration with independent experts in vulnerability discovery. This initiative seeks to bolster...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has announced the dismantling of a transnational cybercriminal syndicate responsible for large-scale tech support scams. The operation, codenamed Chakra V, was carried out on July 7,...
The Trump administration is planning to allocate $1 billion over the next four years toward offensive operations in cyberspace. These funds will be disbursed through the Department of Defense as part of a sweeping...
There is no shortage of protective tools today, yet unfortunately, the number of threats continues to outpace them—particularly those that operate subtly and invisibly, penetrating the very core mechanisms of an operating system. Detecting...
The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security has concluded its work in New York. After nearly five years of...
A counterfeit extension for the Cursor AI development environment, masquerading as a legitimate Ethereum utility, has resulted in a major cybersecurity incident—a Russian cryptocurrency developer lost half a million dollars due to the extension’s...
Over the weekend, an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency under Elon Musk’s purview, inadvertently exposed a confidential key that granted direct access to over 50 of xAI’s language models....