‘Samourai’ Cryptomixer Founders Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Summary Two senior executives behind the Samourai Wallet cryptocurrency mixer — CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill — have pleaded…
Citizen Lab Founder Flags Rise of US Authoritarianism Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, Citizen Lab founder Ron Deibert warned that digital human‑rights abuses have created a “vicious cycle” that…
Payback: ‘ShinyHunters’ Clocks Google via Salesforce Summary The ShinyHunters-affiliated group UNC6040 has stolen corporate data from Google’s Salesforce instance by using sophisticated social-engineering techniques (vishing) and trojanised Salesforce tools. Google…
Utilities, Factories at Risk From Encryption Holes in Industrial Protocol Summary The article reports on research presented at DEF CON showing that OPC UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture), a…
Air France, KLM Alert Authorities of Data Breach Summary Air France and KLM disclosed a breach of a customer service platform in which threat actors accessed and exfiltrated customer personal…
Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking Summary At Black Hat USA, researcher Naor Haziz of Sweet Security revealed “ECScape”, a technique that abuses an undocumented Agent…
REvil Actor Accuses Russia of Planning 2021 Kaseya Attack Summary The article reports that Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a convicted REvil affiliate jailed for his role in the July 2021 Kaseya supply-chain…
Black Hat NOC Expands AI Implementation Across Security Operations Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 the Network Operations Centre (NOC), led by Corelight’s James Pope, combined traditional event networking with…
Researchers Warn of ‘Hidden Risks’ in Passwordless Account Recovery Summary Passwordless authentication (biometrics, passkeys, tokens) is growing, but account recovery processes on many sites remain insecure and haven’t kept pace,…
How to Stay a Step Ahead of a Non-Obvious Threat Summary By Dirk Schrader — Resident CISO (EMEA) & VP of Security Research, Netwrix. Published 12 August 2025. This commentary…
