Cybersecurity

Threat Intelligence Executive Report – Volume 2025, Number 4 – Sophos News

The Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) research team analyzes security threats to help organizations protect their systems. Based on observations in May and June, CTU™...

Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell. The "Linux-specific malware infection...

Gh0st RAT-based GodRAT attacks financial organizations

Summary In September 2024, we detected malicious activity targeting financial (trading and brokerage) firms through the distribution of malicious .scr (screen saver) files disguised as...

Airtell Router Scans, and Mislabeled usernames

Looking at new usernames collected by our Cowrie honeypots, you will first of all notice a number of HTTP headers. It is very common...

Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service – Krebs on Security

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed...

Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide • Graham Cluley

A poisoned Google Calendar invite that can hijack your smart home, a man is hospitalised after...

The Mimics of Punjab – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript This episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun (twitter.com/taruns21) comes on the show to tell us a...

Check your risk blind spot

Does your business truly understand its dependencies, and how to mitigate the...

That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA “Data Troll”)

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this...

August Patch Tuesday includes blasts from the (recent) past – Sophos News

Microsoft on Tuesday announced 109 patches affecting 16 product families. Eighteen of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity,...

New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks

Aug 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that's designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called...

Rubrik & Sophos Enhance Cyber Resilience for Microsoft 365 – Sophos News

Cybersecurity attacks are rising sharply in 2025, and Microsoft has been one among many prominent targets. Research shows that 70 percent of M365 tenants...

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