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South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom, has reported a dramatic decline in operating profit for the third quarter — nearly 90% lower than in 2024. The company attributed the plunge to costs stemming...
Former employees of the U.S.-based company DigitalMint, which specialized in negotiating with hackers on behalf of ransomware victims, have themselves been implicated in conducting cyberattacks. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged them with...
Peter Williams, former chief executive of Trenchant—a division within the defense contractor L3Harris—has recently pleaded guilty to stealing and selling classified cyber-espionage tools to a foreign intermediary. Court documents and a TechCrunch investigation have...
FortiGuard’s mid-year report for 2025 reveals that financially motivated attackers are increasingly eschewing complex exploits and bespoke malware. Rather than deploying heavy toolsets, they rely on legitimate accounts and authorized remote-access applications to slip...
Luminaut is a utility to scope cloud environment exposure for triage. The goal is to quickly identify exposed resources and collect information to start an investigation. Starting from the public IP addresses of AWS...
Experts from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have described a new attack vector targeting multi-agent systems, known as agent session smuggling — a technique in which a malicious remote agent embeds hidden instructions during...
Developer Joel Severin has unveiled an experimental build of the Linux kernel ported to the WebAssembly format, enabling it to run directly within a web browser. The demonstration version operates in a shell environment...
The story of one of the most notorious cyberthreats of the past decade has taken an unexpected turn. The developer behind the ZeroAccess botnet—which once infected millions of devices across the globe—has resurfaced years...
Following the end of official support for Windows 10, an increasing number of users have been seeking ways to upgrade to Windows 11, even on devices that technically fail to meet Microsoft’s new system...
The Chinese hacking group Storm-1849 continues its aggressive campaign against Cisco ASA devices used by government agencies and major organizations worldwide. The findings come from Unit 42, the threat intelligence division of Palo Alto...
Minimalism enthusiasts in the Windows community have once again set a record. An independent developer known as @XenoPanther has managed to shrink a fully bootable copy of Windows 7 to a mere 69 megabytes—smaller...
Across Eastern Europe, security researchers have observed a sharp surge in malicious Android applications exploiting contactless data transfer technologies to steal banking information. According to Zimperium, more than 760 apps have been detected in...