A new malware campaign is exploiting a weakness in Discord’s invitation system to deliver an information stealer called Skuld and the AsyncRAT remote access trojan. “Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them to silently redirect users from trusted sources to malicious servers,” Check Point said in a technical report. “The attackers combined […]
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Video of the stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) from offshore Vancouver Island. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Tags: squid Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
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Graham CLULEY June 13, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Dutch police have announced that they have identified 126 individuals linked to the now dismantled Cracked.io cybercrime forum. Cracked.io was an online platform used by cybercriminals to trade stolen data, access to compromised accounts, hacking tools, and fraud […]
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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a “large-scale campaign” that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, these malicious injects are obfuscated using JSFuck, which refers to an “esoteric and educational programming style” that uses only a limited set of characters to write and execute […]
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What is the Bert ransomware? Bert is a recently-discovered strain of ransomware that encrypts victims’ files and demands a payment for the decryption key. Why is it called Bert? I truly have no idea. Maybe whoever created Bert put all of their efforts into the coding of their ransomware, rather than thinking of its marketing. […]
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Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office… to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead. Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit… well, risky. Denmark’s relationship with the US is under strain, following Donald […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday disclosed that ransomware actors are targeting unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) instances to compromise customers of an unnamed utility billing software provider. “This incident reflects a broader pattern of ransomware actors targeting organizations through unpatched versions of SimpleHelp RMM since January 2025,” the […]
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Introduction: Security at a Tipping Point Security Operations Centers (SOCs) were built for a different era, one defined by perimeter-based thinking, known threats, and manageable alert volumes. But today’s threat landscape doesn’t play by those rules. The sheer volume of telemetry, overlapping tools, and automated alerts has pushed traditional SOCs to the edge. Security teams […]
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Paragon is an Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of its product. Citizen Lab caught it spying on multiple European journalists with a zero-click iOS exploit: On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they […]
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