A for-profit vendor built a proprietary national biometric database by extracting iris scans from public county jail booking rooms, one intake at a time, then turned around and sold federal access to the biometrics of prisoners. Plymouth County Correct…
Cybercriminals are using SEO poisoning and fake Gemini and Claude installer sites to infect developers with fileless malware and steal data.
A 5-year study on the Ransomware Economy found that 30,515 exposed databases were hit by ransom attacks, causing massive damage despite victims never paying. Database extortion doesn’t look like the ransomware stories that usually grab headlines. There’s no slick branding, no leak-site countdown, no gang posting memes on Telegram. In most cases, there’s just a […]
Some internet connectivity is returning in Iran after nearly 90 days offline, web monitoring groups say. But it isn’t clear if the reconnection is permanent.
Anthropic says its Claude Mythos AI identified more than 10,000 software vulnerabilities in one month, including critical flaws in open-source code.
Microsoft wants to call its EU commitment a “contractually binding court-fight clause.” Apparently that means Brad Smith pledges to the EU customers he will sue the US government rather than suspend EU operations. From where I’m sitti…
An open letter to the editors of If You’re Listening and ABC News In-depth. Your episode on YouTube “The fascism expert at the heart of Palantir” contains errors serious enough to require retraction. You called an appointment an elect…
Attackers have poisoned four Laravel-Lang Composer packages by rewriting hundreds of Git tags, putting many Laravel apps at risk. Hackers compromised four popular Laravel-Lang Composer packages and injected malware by rewriting more than 700 Git tags tied to historical versions. Laravel-Lang is a community-driven project that provides translation and localization files for Laravel applications. The […]
Nimbus Manticore accelerated cyberattacks during wartime, using AI-assisted malware, fake Zoom installers, and SEO poisoning. When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran at the end of February 2026, most analysts expected the country’s cyber apparatus to hunker down and weather the storm. That’s not what happened. Instead, researchers at Check Point have […]
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group is using a stealthy memory-only RAT that leaves almost no forensic traces behind. North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has never been shy about its ambitions, the threat actor has been tied to some of the most audacious financial heists in recent memory, draining hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency exchanges and […]