Hacktivist Tied to Multiple Cyber Groups Sentenced to Jail Summary Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, a 26-year-old from South Yorkshire, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for participating in hacktivist campaigns…
Summary K-12 schools are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals—ransomware, data theft and direct extortion are now common. The article explains that many districts operate ageing systems, hold highly sensitive student data…
A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, high-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng presented a novel vulnerability-discovery framework that blends traditional static analysis with…
Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks Summary Recent FBI alerts and incidents such as Scattered Spider show attackers increasingly favour phone-based, high-touch social engineering to bypass perimeter…
Video Game Anti-Cheat Systems: A Cybersecurity Goldmine Summary Rob Wright of Dark Reading interviews Sam Collins and Marius Muench from the University of Birmingham at Black Hat USA 2025 about…
How Architectural Controls Help the AI Security Gap Summary This is a Dark Reading News Desk interview from Black Hat USA 2025 with David Brauchler, technical director and AI/ML security…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary New research from Darktrace shows threat actors are abusing commercial virtual private server (VPS) providers to spin up attack infrastructure quickly, cheaply…
System Shocks? EV Smart Charging Tech Poses Cyber-Risks Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, Salvatore Gariuolo of Trend Micro warns that ISO 15118 — the global communication standard enabling smart…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison Summary Noah Michael Urban, 20, a member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal collective, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison…
Easy ChatGPT Downgrade Attack Undermines GPT-5 Security Summary Researchers at Adversa describe a simple prompt-manipulation technique they call PROMISQROUTE that can steer ChatGPT away from the newest, most secure GPT-5…
