A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting…
Following its attacks on Salesforce instances last year, members of the cybercrime group have broadened their targeting and gotten more aggressive with extortion tactics. – Read More
Microsoft has announced a three-phase approach to phase out New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) as part of its efforts to shift Windows environments toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. The development comes…
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Legal rookies appear to have entered Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit One of the more unexpected revelations in the latest tranche of the so-called ‘Epstein files’ released in recent days is that…
Security Awareness Trainings sollten auf dem Human-Risk-Management-Ansatz basieren. FAMILY STOCK – shutterstock.com Unternehmen investieren Millionen von Dollar in Firewalls, Endpunktsicherheit oder Verschlüsselung. Doch eine einzige Person kann eine Katastrophe auslösen.…
The first time you’ll hear, “We’re always in incident mode,” it won’t be said with drama. It will be said the way you mention the weather. Grey again. Pager again.…
Trailmate launched as its own entity in January 2026 to handle client communication and administrative tasks such as onboarding and evidence collection, describing itself as the first fully autonomous, client-facing…
Security researchers at Point Wild have disclosed a new Windows malware campaign that uses a multi-stage infection chain to establish persistent, memory-resident access on compromised systems and steal sensitive data.…
Every week brings new discoveries, attacks, and defenses that shape the state of cybersecurity. Some threats are stopped quickly, while others go unseen until they cause real damage. Sometimes a…
For mid-market organizations, cybersecurity is a constant balancing act. Proactive, preventative security measures are essential to protect an expanding attack surface. Combined with effective protection that blocks threats, they play…
Last month, while running a routine access audit on our Azure environment, I came across a service account called svc-dataloader-poc. It had not been touched in 793 days — two…
The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility’s update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. “The attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious…
As technology advances at pace, Lord Reed tells Legal Cheek that the profession has a greater duty than ever to uphold trust in the legal system AI is a “public…
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