He’s 20 years old and has just been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced today: WASHINGTON – Marlon Ferro, 20, of Santa Ana, California, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 78 months in prison in connection with his role in a sprawling social engineering conspiracy that stole well over $250 million…
A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could be exploited to access sensitive data….
Sophos has been named as one of the top employers in British Columbia, Canada for the ninth year running.
Rochdi Rais reports: The Clorox Company and its subsidiary, Clorox Services Co., today filed a $380 million lawsuit in California state court against Cognizant Worldwide Ltd. and its New Jersey affiliate, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. The complaint alleges that Cognizant enabled a “catastrophic” cyberattack on Clorox’s corporate network in August 2023 by handing over sensitive…
New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it
Michael Martin reports: Cherry Health says it is dealing with ongoing technology issues, but days into the disruption, officials have not explained what’s causing them. In a notice posted to their website Monday, the health system said it is “experiencing technology issues across Cherry Health, including our phone system.” Their clinics remain open for scheduled……
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lease the phone numbers. According to a new report published by Infoblox, the operation is…
