Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline Summary The state of Nevada has been dealing with a sustained cyberattack since the early hours of 24 August. The…
FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption Summary The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), led by Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, has sent a warning letter…
Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1.1 Million People After Salesforce Attack Summary Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach affecting 1,111,386 customers after attackers exploited a third‑party database tied to Salesforce…
A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, high-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng presented a vulnerability-discovery framework that blends traditional static analysis with modern…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary New research from Darktrace shows threat actors are abusing inexpensive commercial VPS services to spin up attack infrastructure rapidly and quietly. Attackers…
K-12 School Incident Response Plans Fall Short Summary K-12 schools are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals — especially ransomware gangs — because many districts run outdated systems, hold highly sensitive student…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison Summary Noah Michael Urban, 20, a known member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal collective (nicknamed “King Bob”), pleaded guilty and was…
Easy ChatGPT Downgrade Attack Undermines GPT-5 Security Summary Researchers at Adversa describe a simple prompt-based technique — nicknamed PROMISQROUTE — that tricks ChatGPT’s routing layer into sending malicious prompts to…
Video Game Anti-Cheat Systems: A Cybersecurity Goldmine Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, University of Birmingham researchers Sam Collins and Marius Muench discussed their work “Watching the Watchers: Exploring and…
System Shocks? EV Smart Charging Tech Poses Cyber-Risks Summary This Dark Reading interview from Black Hat USA 2025 features Salvatore Gariuolo, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, discussing security concerns…
