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Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and civil society members. The campaign, which targeted around 90 members, involved the use of spyware from an Israeli company known as Paragon Solutions. The attackers were neutralized in December 2024. In a statement to The Guardian,…
The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a “complex infection chain” targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in January 2024. The attacks, which culminated in the deployment of a new modular…
Nicole Wagner reports: Access to Southold’s online record-keeping system Laserfiche remains suspended with no timeline for restoration, more than six weeks after a cyberattack forced the town offline. Southold is currently completing $500,000 security upgrades, funded through a Town Board-approved bond, before restoring public access to the system after hackers breached servers on Nov. 24. Supervisor Al Krupski and the……
Martin Matishak reports: A deal to reopen the U.S. government would also renew an expired cybersecurity information sharing law until the end of January. The Senate on Sunday advanced legislation to end a weeks-long shutdown stalemate that includes a provision to reauthorize the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act through January 30. The law, which incentivizes……
In September 2025, a Helsinki court ordered the release of Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki (aka “Julius Kivimäki” aka “Zeekill”) pending the resolution of his appeal of an April 2024 conviction stemming from the theft of psychotherapy records of 33,000 individuals. Kivimäki was released because he might wind up having spent too much time in prison. But……
Here’s a must-read post, especially if you read and repeated claims that DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit have formed some kind of cartel. Marco A. De Felice writes on SuspectFile: In the recently published “Threat Spotlight: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q3 2025” by ReliaQuest, one particular section drew significant attention: the claim of an alleged “alliance” between three ransomware……