Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware, Miscellaneous News, News
October 10, 2025
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LockBit, DragonForce, and Qilin form a ‘cartel’ to dictate ransomware market conditions

CSO reports: Three of the most notorious ransomware-as-a-service operations have formed a criminal cartel aimed at coordinating attacks and sharing resources in what they describe as an increasingly “challenging” ransomware business environment. DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit announced the partnership in early September, with DragonForce proposing the collaboration shortly after LockBit reemerged with its LockBit 5.0 […]

Miscellaneous News
May 18, 2025
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The simple daily phone habit that could save you from hackers

EuroWeekly reports an easy-to-use tip that may prevent your phone from falling prey to hackers: Why restarting your phone daily could protect your privacy [Ronan] Farrow’s advice is refreshingly straightforward: restart your phone every day.‘It sounds basic,’ he said in an interview, “but restarting your device regularly can actually disrupt spyware and prevent a lot […]

New Threats, Miscellaneous News
April 08, 2025
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New Black-Hat Automated Hacking Tool Xanthorox AI Advertised in Hacker Forums

Cyber Security News reports: A new malicious AI platform named Xanthorox AI has emerged, positioning itself as a friendly tool for hackers. First spotted in late Q1 2025, Xanthorox AI is being promoted in underground cybercrime forums as a modular, self-hosted solution for automated hacking operations, marking a new era in the sophistication of cyber […]

News, Miscellaneous News
April 06, 2025
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CYBER KIDS: How Kim Jong-un is grooming world’s best hackers from age of 5 & handpicking them from primary school to target the West 

The Sun reports: KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned. The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks. North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun […]

Consumer Alerts, Miscellaneous News
March 28, 2025
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UK warns of emerging threat from ‘sadistic’ online ‘Com networks’ of teenage boys

The Record reports: Online networks of teenage boys “dedicated to inflicting harm and committing a range of criminality” are among the most significant concerns for British law enforcement, officials announced this week. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is warning of a “new generation of young, English-speaking cyber criminals” who are “predominantly teenage boys that often […]

Miscellaneous News
March 14, 2025
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U.S. intel vets helped crypto firm soar, unaware of infamous hacker behind it

You may not always know who your partners are. The Washington Post reports: An innovative company lionized for devising ways to crack passwords to huge cryptocurrency accounts has fallen into disarray since it began emerging that the firm was secretly co-founded by a once-celebrated hacker publicly accused of repeated sexual assaults. The previously unreported role […]

Miscellaneous News
March 04, 2025
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It’s hard to know what to believe

CISA Series reports: CISA is pushing back against reports that it has been directed to stop tracking Russian cyber threats, calling the claims “fake” and a risk to national security. This is an update to a story that first appeared over the weekend, in which The Guardian reported that a memo deprioritizing Russia was issued—an allegation that […]

Malware Ransomware, Miscellaneous News
February 27, 2025
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EncryptHub breaches 618 orgs to deploy infostealers, ransomware

Bleeping Computer reports that “EncryptHub,” a/k/a “Larva-208,”  has been targeting organizations worldwide with spear-phishing and social engineering attacks: According to a report by Prodaft, which was published internally last week and made public yesterday, since June 2024, when EncryptHub initiated operations, it has compromised at least 618 organizations. After gaining access, the threat actors install Remote Monitoring and […]