Cybersecurity

Kaspersky industrial threat report for Q2 2025

Statistics across all threats In Q2 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 1.4 pp from the previous...

Help Wanted: What are these odd reuqests about?

Looking at our web honeypot data, I came across an odd new request header I hadn't seen before: "X-Forwarded-App". My first guess was that...

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages – Krebs on Security

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers...

US citizen charged in latest twist of notorious data breach

The Vastaamo hack was the worst data breach in Finnish history.Psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo found itself the victim of an extortionist who hacked its systems...

Jason’s Pen Test – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript Join us as we sit down with Jason Haddix, a renowned penetration tester who has made a name for...

A Petya/NotPetya copycat comes with a twist

HybridPetya is the fourth publicly known real or proof-of-concept bootkit with UEFI...

Weekly Update 469

So I had this idea around training a text-to-speech engine with my voice, then using that to speak over the Sonos at home to...

September Patch Tuesday handles 81 CVEs – Sophos News

.Microsoft on Tuesday announced 81 patches affecting 15 product families. Nine of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity,...

AI-Powered Villager Pen Testing Tool Hits 11,000 PyPI Downloads Amid Abuse Concerns

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing tool linked to a China-based company has attracted nearly 11,000 downloads on the Python Package Index (PyPI)...

Analyzing the TTPs of hacktivists and APTs targeting Russian organizations

Hacktivism and geopolitically motivated APT groups have become a significant threat to many regions of the world in recent years, damaging infrastructure and important...

DShield SIEM Docker Updates – SANS Internet Storm Center

Since the last update , over the past few months I added several enhancements to DShield SIEM and webhoneypot sensor collection that included an...

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions – Krebs on Security

In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks...

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