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The ransomware scene gains another would-be EDR killer
Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don’t see it. Your MFA doesn’t stop it. And when an attacker gets…
Lab-1 Dark-web Research Team Contributors:Alex Necula, Anastasia Sentasnova, Ellis Stannard, Jeffrey Bell, Manuel Boll, Valéry Rieß-Marchive Mannie W writes: Ransomware and data-extortion groups are moving beyond bulk dumps to analyze, index and price stolen data before it is published or sold — removing the “weaponization tax” and turning breaches into searchable, tranched and targetable assets…….
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to…
While the U.K. is considering amending its Computer Misuse Act to exempt or provide some safe harbor for security researchers, Portugal has actually enacted an update to its law. Bill Toulas reports: Portugal has modified its cybercrime law to establish a legal safe harbor for good-faith security research and to make hacking non-punishable under certain strict……
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a “coordinated malware campaign” on the JetBrains Marketplace that has published no less than 15 malicious plugins capable of exfiltrating artificial intelligence (AI) provider keys. “Every plugin poses as an AI coding assistant built on DeepSeek and other large language models, offering chat, commit messages, code review, bug finding, and unit…
Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team said. “StormEncryptor is written in C++ and appends the file name extension .encrypted