
How SMBs can fight back against ransomware
Long known to be a sweet spot for cybercriminals, small businesses are more likely to be victimized by ransomware than large enterprises 18 Sep 2025 • , 5 min. read Think your business is too small to be singled out for digital extortion? Think again. Indeed,...

Russian fake-news network back in action with 200+ new sites • The Register
The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an...

ShinyHunters claims 1.5 billion Salesforce records stolen in Drift hacks
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. For the past year, the threat actors have been targeting Salesforce customers in data theft attacks...

Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank • The Register
Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank. In an update to an...

Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupt massive RaccoonO365 phishing service
Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) operation, known as RaccoonO365, that helped cybercriminals steal thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials. In early September 2025, in coordination with Cloudflare's Cloudforce One...

UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand? • The Register
Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible...

BreachForums hacking forum admin resentenced to three years in prison
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, was resentenced today to three years in prison after a federal appeals court overturned his prior sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick,...

Microsoft, Cloudflare shut down RaccoonO365 phishing domains • The Register
Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit calls the "fastest-growing tool used by cybercriminals...

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign
A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was discovered by HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team, which...

FileFix attacks trick victims into executing infostealers • The Register
An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader. FileFix is a variation on ClickFix, a newish type of social-engineering technique first spotted last year...