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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brian Krebs reports that a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team has a criminal past: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to […]
Forbes reports that some new research suggests that 100 million macOS users are at risk from a new attack involving a Banshee Stealer variant: A new variant of the macOS Banshee Stealer threat, capable of hacking browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and other sensitive data, has been monitored by security researchers since late last year. Now those […]
