Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks Summary Paul Underwood argues that help desks are a prime target for modern social engineering campaigns that aim to bypass technical…
Tailing Hackers, Columbia University Uses Logging to Improve Security Summary Columbia University has strengthened its security posture by investing in comprehensive logging and observability, using netflow data, honeypots and a…
How Architectural Controls Help the AI Security Gap Summary In a Dark Reading News Desk interview recorded at Black Hat USA 2025, David Brauchler, technical director and AI/ML security practice…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary New research from Darktrace shows threat actors increasingly abusing commercial virtual private server (VPS) providers to spin up attack infrastructure that is…
Scattered Spider affiliate given 10 year sentence, ordered to pay $13 million in restitution Summary A federal judge has sentenced Noah Michael Urban, 20, to 10 years in prison for…
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Summary Apple has issued emergency updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2025-43300) in its ImageIO framework. The vulnerability…
Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction Summary UK telco Colt Technology Services has admitted that some customer data was stolen following a cyberattack for which…
Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension Summary Security researchers at Koi Security say the FreeVPN.One Chrome extension began silently capturing screenshots roughly a second after page loads…
Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud Summary A major data theft at Orange Belgium in late July exposed records for around 850,000 customer accounts. Attackers accessed full…
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets Summary US authorities have dismantled RapperBot (aka Eleven Eleven Botnet or CowBot), a Mirai-derived DDoS-for-hire service accused of launching…
