From point-in-time audits to continuous confidence: How Sophos IT transformed identity defense
“From logging in and connecting to Entra ID to seeing our first actionable findings — it took less than 45 minutes.”
Jessica Lyons reports: China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official. “There’s a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American,” Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director……
The Russian nation-state hacking group known as Sandworm has been attributed to what has been described as the “largest cyber attack” targeting Poland’s power system in the last week of December 2025. The attack was unsuccessful, the country’s energy minister, Milosz Motyka, said last week. “The command of the cyberspace forces has diagnosed in the…
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) has targeted several organizations and individuals mainly located across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo. The activity, first observed on January 26, 2026, has resulted in the deployment of new…
Beau Yarborough reports: Moreno Valley Unified has warned its employees that sensitive information may have been shared with someone outside the organization. “We are currently investigating a matter involving the accidental sharing of a folder that contained certain documents and information,” Superintendent Alejandro Ruvalcaba wrote in a June 6 email to all employees. “While we continue to determine…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new jailbreaking method called Echo Chamber that could be leveraged to trick popular large language models (LLMs) into generating undesirable responses, irrespective of the safeguards put in place. “Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on adversarial phrasing or character obfuscation, Echo Chamber weaponizes indirect references, semantic
Daryna Antoniuk reports: A little-known hacking group has emerged as a major threat to Russian state institutions and critical industries, carrying out attacks aimed at causing maximum disruption and extracting financial gain, according to a new report. BO Team, also known as Black Owl, has been active since early 2024 and appears to operate independently,…