RealDefense Opens $10M Fund to Help OEMs Monetise Installs With SmartScan Cybersecurity SDK Summary RealDefense has launched a $10 million SmartScan Prepay Fund to accelerate integrations of its SmartScan SDK…
New Crypto24 Ransomware Attacks Bypass EDR Summary Trend Micro researchers report a notable escalation from the Crypto24 ransomware group: attackers are using a customised variant of the open‑source RealBlindingEDR tool…
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident Summary UK-based Colt Technology Services confirmed a “cyber incident” after customers experienced service disruptions that began on 12 August. The company says…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has documented a rising retail-fraud laundering technique called “ghost-tapping”, used by organised Chinese criminal groups in…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary London-based Colt Technology Services confirmed it is recovering from a cyberattack that earlier this week caused outages to…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A team from King’s College London presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that off-the-shelf large language…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) is still grappling with the aftermath of a cyberattack first…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services, a London-headquartered multinational telco, says a “cyber incident” that began on 12 August forced it to take internal…
Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole Content Summary Cisco has released a patch for a maximum-severity remote code execution flaw in its…
Summary A Cisco Talos report details how a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-7237 compromised a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and install backdoors for…
