Cybersecurity

NICKEL TAPESTRY expands fraudulent worker operations – Sophos News

With this post, the X-Ops blog is thrilled to present research from our Sophos siblings newly joining us from Secureworks, of which CTU (the...

Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection

May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that...

Lumma Stealer, coming and going – Sophos News

In September 2024, a threat hunt across Sophos Managed Detection and Response’s telemetry uncovered a Lumma Stealer campaign using fake CAPTCHA sites that instructed...

Kaspersky ransomware report for 2024

Global ransomware trends and numbers With the International Anti-Ransomware Day just around the corner on May 12, Kaspersky explores the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape and...

Example of “Modular” Malware – SANS Internet Storm Center

Developers (of malware as well as goodware) don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time. Why rewrite a piece of code that was...

The typo from hell • Graham Cluley

In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are...

Shannen – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did. Read more about her from her book “The...

It’s a wrap! RSAC 2025 highlights – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

From the power of collaborative defense to identity security and AI, catch...

Weekly Update 450

Looking back at this week's video, it's the AI discussion that I think about most. More specifically, the view amongst some that any usage...

Finding Minhook in a sideloading attack – and Sweden too – Sophos News

Late in 2023 and during the first half of 2024, we monitored an attack campaign targeting several of our customers in multiple locations. Though...

Fake Security Plugin on WordPress Enables Remote Admin Access for Attackers

May 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Skimming Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a...

Cybercrime on Main Street 2025 – Sophos News

Small businesses are a prime target for cybercrime, as we highlighted in our last annual report. Many of the criminal threats we covered in...

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