These five formidable bits of kit can help hobbyist hackers enhance their security knowledge as well as assist red teamers in spotting chinks in corporate armors.

Qilin’s attack on Synnovis severely impacted key NHS hospitals in London earlier this month

The ICO said a lack of security controls led to a large-scale data breach at the London Borough of Hackney Council

The threat actor who claimed the recent Disney hack previously targeted AI-centric games and applications with commodity malware and ransomware

Fortinet observed an 80-90% increase in darknet activity targeting the Olympics between 2023 and 2024

Netskope found that 96% of organizations use generative AI applications, with sensitive data frequently shared with these tools

Interpol claims hundreds of arrests were made as police disrupted the West African Black Axe cybercrime gang

CISA has told federal agencies to patch a critical GeoServer GeoTools vulnerability under active exploitation

Void Banshee targeted North American, European and Southeast Asian regions with the Atlantida stealer

The Iranian APT group has shifted away from using legitimate remote monitoring tools to compromise its victims

Disney unreleased projects and internal data are part of a data leak claimed by hacktivist group ‘NullBulge’

CyberDragon and Cyber Army of Russia, among others, have claimed responsibility for the attacks

JumpCloud found that half of SME IT teams believe they lack the resources and staffing to defend their organization against cyber-threats

A crucial infrastructure company overseeing gas storage and distribution faces a serious cybersecurity threat. So, they involve a penetration test team to assess the company’s security posture. They uncovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability…

Cyble reveals a cyberattack targeting crypto users using RDPWrapper, Tailscale, and malicious files to gain RDP access. Stay informed.

The group — which has targeted Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other nations — often uses spear-phishing and legitimate remote management tools but is developing a brand-new homegrown tool set.

A new UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will update the NIS Regulations

This post is part of a series on privacy-preserving federated learning. The series is a collaboration between NIST and the UK government’s Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA), previously known as the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. Learn more…

New figures suggest a massive 1170% increase in people impacted by data breaches in Q2 2024 versus a year ago