K-12 School Incident Response Plans Fall Short Summary This Dark Reading piece warns that K-12 schools are increasingly targeted by ransomware and other cyberattacks, yet many districts remain underprepared. Schools’…
A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary In a Dark Reading News Desk interview from Black Hat USA 2025, high-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng describe a new hybrid…
Video Game Anti-Cheat Systems: A Cybersecurity Goldmine Summary This article reports on a Dark Reading interview at Black Hat USA 2025 with Sam Collins and Marius Muench from the University…
Summary Security vendor Darktrace published research showing threat actors are abusing commercial virtual private server (VPS) services to rapidly deploy attack infrastructure that is cheap, quiet and fast. The report…
System Shocks? EV Smart Charging Tech Poses Cyber-Risks Summary This piece summarises a Dark Reading interview with Salvatore Gariuolo of Trend Micro at Black Hat USA 2025 about ISO 15118,…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison Summary Noah Michael Urban, a 20-year-old member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal collective, pleaded guilty to charges related to cryptocurrency theft…
Insurers May Limit Payments in Cases of Unpatched CVEs Summary Cyber insurers are exploring policy language that would limit or exclude payouts for breaches that exploit known, unpatched Common Vulnerabilities…
Do Claude Code Security Reviews Pass the Vibe Check? Summary If you’re worried about AI-assisted “vibe coding” introducing more risk into already brittle development pipelines, this Dark Reading piece walks…
Interpol Arrests Over 1K Cybercriminals in ‘Operation Serengeti 2.0’ Summary Interpol led Operation Serengeti 2.0, a multi-country effort that resulted in the arrest of 1,209 alleged cybercriminals across 18 African…
Apple Patches Zero-Day Flaw Used in ‘Sophisticated’ Attack Summary Apple on 20 August patched a zero-day vulnerability in its ImageIO framework, tracked as CVE-2025-43300. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write…
