Jai Vijayan reports: In 2025, cybercriminals needed less time to move from break-in to lateral movement across a network than it takes to watch a typical sitcom. An analysis by CrowdStrike of threat activity last year found attackers took just 29 minutes on average to pivot to other systems after gaining an initial foothold in…
Today’s reminder of the insider threat was reported by Tribune News Service: The cybercrime cell here has registered an FIR against Divyanshu Jain, Director of Divrit Consultancy Pvt Ltd, and Aaina Gupta, a former compliance assistant at a Chandigarh-based chartered accountancy firm, for allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive data of over 2,000 clients and misusing…
If breaches or insider wrongdoing by DOGE employees are suspected, DOGE’s alleged failure to maintain and make transparent required records makes investigation nearly impossible or actually impossible. Mallory Culhane reports: The Department of Government Efficiency and top Trump administration officials are being sued over the agency’s alleged violations of federal record-keeping and transparency laws. DOGE…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOW#REACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. “The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a
Virtualization and networking infrastructure have been targeted by a threat actor codenamed Fire Ant as part of a prolonged cyber espionage campaign. The activity, observed this year, is primarily designed Now to infiltrate organizations’ VMware ESXi and vCenter environments as well as network appliances, Sygnia said in a new report published today. “The threat actor…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday resentenced the former administrator of BreachForums to three years in prison in connection with his role in running the cybercrime forum and possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin), 22, of Peekskill, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of access device conspiracy,…
Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise disclosed on Friday that it has observed a spike in scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks login portals. The company said it observed a nearly 500% increase in IP addresses scanning Palo Alto Networks login portals on October 3, 2025, the highest level recorded in the last three months. It described…
