Faster, safer, stronger: Sophos Firewall v22 security enhancements
Hardened kernel, remote integrity monitoring, an enhanced anti-malware engine, and more.
There are two cases in South Korean news this week of note here today involving enforcement actions by South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission. One involves a travel agency, Modutour. The other involves a court decision about Meta’s data sharing. Modutour Network Fined by PIPC Yun Ye-won reports that Modutour Network, which neglected safety measures…
How many times have we read that paying a threat actor’s extortion demands only encourages more financially motivated crime and doesn’t ensure that the data won’t be retained or re-sold or leaked? Those making that argument appear to be generally correct, but are there exceptions? For years now, DataBreaches has gone back and forth between…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025. These attacks, observed by Recorded Future Insikt Group, targeted various victims, but primarily within the Colombian government across local, municipal, and federal levels. The threat intelligence firm is tracking the activity…
Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information. Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare, the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max plans can opt to give Claude secure access to…
Apple has released software updates to address several security flaws across its portfolio, including a zero-day vulnerability that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24085, has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Core Media component that could permit a malicious application already installed on a device to…
Source: The Nation A coordinated law enforcement operation has taken down the dark web data leak and negotiation sites associated with the 8Base ransomware gang. Visitors to the data leak site are now greeted with a seizure banner that says: “This hidden site and the criminal content have been seized by the Bavarian State Criminal…