HHS Releases Updated Security Risk Assessment Tool
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IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns
It started with cybercrime but has expanded to real world violence. Both the FBI and the NCA have issued warnings about a concerning trend whereby teens are being recruited to engage in real life harm such as violent attacks on others. The Register reports: A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pro-Russian hackers attack Italian websites after president compares invasion of Ukraine to Nazis
Associated Press reports: A pro-Russian hacker group attacked Italian government websites on Tuesday in what it said was a reaction to a speech by Italian President Sergio Mattarella that compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the Nazis ‘ “wars of conquest.” The NoName57 hacker group, which announced the attacks on social media, hit the websites of the defense, interior and transport ministries, as […]