State-backed spyware attacks are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users CISA warns
CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued a new warning that cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are using spyware to...
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Operation Endgame disrupts Rhadamanthys information-stealing malware
International cybercrime-fighting agencies, co-ordinated by Europol, took down over 1000 servers and seized 20 domains earlier this month as part of Operation E...
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Privacy concerns raised as Grok AI found to be a stalker’s best friend
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, has been found to exhibit more alarming behaviour - this time revealing the home addresses of ordinary people...
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Ransomware may have extorted over $21 billion between 2022-2024 but it’s not all bad news claims FinCEN report
A new report from the United States's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has shone a revealing light on the state of the criminal industry of ransomw...
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Best Practices
AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor
VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
Amazon Web Services has given Nutanix a lovely Christmas present: Support for its AHV hypervi...
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Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug
Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas
Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the...
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Windows is testing a new wider Run dialog box Here’s how to try it
You’ll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it
The Windows 11 Run dialog box is one of the oldest pieces of user interface still in use. It works jus...
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Around 1000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency
On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs
Romania's cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on ...
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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”
Snowflake pushed an update this week that caus...
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New Threats and Vulnerabilities
There’s so much stolen data in the world South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
South Korea's government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify th...
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UK government confirms Foreign Office cyber attack
Reports blame Chinese hacking group but minister insists the source of the attack is unclear
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Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings
Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet
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ClickFix attacks that bypass cyber controls on the rise
NCC’s monthly threat report details the growing prevalence of ClickFix attacks in the wild
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Patch Management
Record 297 Tbps DDoS Attack Linked to AISURU Botnet with up to 4 Million Infected Hosts
Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second (T...
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Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation
Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company's November 2025 Patch Tuesday ...
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Malicious Rust Crate Delivers OS-Specific Malware to Web3 Developer Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that's capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and features malicious functio...
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MS Teams Guest Access Can Remove Defender Protection When Users Join External Tenants
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections via the gue...
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