A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to nearly six years for secretly helping BlackCat extort victims while betraying his clients. A U.S. court sentenced former ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino, 41, to 70 months in prison for conspiring with the BlackCat ransomware gang. While negotiating on behalf of five victims, he secretly shared confidential information about […]
Microsoft uncovered GigaWiper, a modular Go backdoor combining three malware families with espionage, remote control, and destructive wiping features. In October 2025, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team identified destructive wiping activity inside compromised environments and traced it to a previously unknown piece of malware they’re now calling GigaWiper. The malicious code is written in Go, it […]
I was thinking about doing a Cold War themed conference for cyber security to infuse more NatSec, but now I’m thinking of starting a conference called Empty Hat, which is focused on examples of integrity breaches. Based on my earlier post about t…
The information security industry confirmed this week it remains locked in a decades-long standoff over whether to abbreviate “command and control” as C2 or C&C, with sources describing an opinion survey as “the most important thi…
She was just blocks from her government office when she was killed with a vehicle. The Globe has identified the person who died when hit by a driver on Tremont Street at Parker Street on Mission Hill this morning as Louisa Gag, a planner for the Boston…
INTERPOL’s Operation First Light 2026 led to 5,811 arrests, blocked $293M in criminal assets, and disrupted global fraud and money laundering networks. INTERPOL coordinated a four-month operation across 97 countries and territories that ended with 5,811 arrests and the interception of USD 293 million in illicit assets. Operation First Light 2026 ran from January 15 […]
Microsoft details GigaWiper, a destructive Windows backdoor that can wipe disks, encrypt files and give attackers remote access to compromised systems globally.
A YouTube channel content creator has made a living in Germany covering and converting Nazi marches. A documentary explains how he saw an opportunity to talk kids out of joining the AfD.
GodDamn ransomware uses the signed PoisonX driver to disable security tools, marking a more advanced version of the Beast ransomware family. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team found a new ransomware family called GodDamn that first appeared in the wild on May 21, 2026, and analyzed an attack that took place in early June. The group behind […]
Germany says it has made a defense deal with Trump to buy Tomahawk missiles. And, as you would expect, it’s immediately not going well. CSIS reported in May that the US fired more Tomahawks while losing the Iran war than in any other campaign in …