Putting the dampener on tamperers
Taking a dive into Sophos Tamper Protection
When assessing an organization’s external attack surface, encryption-related issues (especially SSL misconfigurations) receive special attention. Why? Their widespread use, configuration complexity, and visibility to attackers as well as users make them more likely to be exploited. This highlights how important your SSL configurations are in maintaining your web application security and
Maristel Policarpio, Sarah Pearl Camiling, and Sophia Nilette Robles write: A new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has emerged and has been making a name for itself in 2025. Anubis is a recently identified group that sets itself apart by partnering encryption with more destructive capabilities—wiping directories which severely impact chances of file recovery. Given its brief history and…
In November 2022, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (“AIIMS“) reportedly suffered a ransomware attack. They may have just escaped another incident thanks to the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability found by a researcher. Ashish Khaitan reports: A critical vulnerability in the AIIMS portal exposed highly sensitive data of voluntary organ and tissue donors…
Daniel Verlaan reports: The cybercriminal group Shinyhunters is responsible for hacking Odido. On the dark web, Odido is being pressured to pay the ransom—over a million euros. “This is your final warning,” the hackers write. “Otherwise, we will leak the data.” Shinyhunters confirmed to RTL Nieuws that it was behind the hack and has shown……
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in Meta’s Llama large language model (LLM) framework that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the llama-stack inference server. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50050, has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.3 out of 10.0. Supply chain security firm Snyk, on the…
Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider. “Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks,” Cloudflare’s Omer