Small world: The revitalization of small AI models for cybersecurity
Sophos X-Ops explores why larger isn’t always better when it comes to solving security challenges with AI
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces the extradition of Liridon Masurica (33, Gjilan, Kosovo), also known as “@blackdb.” Masurica is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and five substantive counts of fraudulent use of 15 or more unauthorized access devices. If convicted on all counts, Masurica faces…
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the supply chain attack targeting Trivy, KICS, and litellm, has now compromised the telnyx Python package by pushing two malicious versions to steal sensitive data. The two versions, 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository on March 27, 2026, concealed their credential harvesting capabilities within a…
Mikael Thalen reports: A company that sells spyware that monitors individuals on parole and probation had its data leaked to a cybercrime forum this week. The leak, according to an analysis by Straight Arrow News, exposed highly sensitive information regarding employees of the corrections system and those under court-ordered supervision. The affected company, RemoteCOM, describes itself……
Google on Wednesday released security updates for the Chrome web browser to address four vulnerabilities, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-10585, which has been described as a type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Type confusion vulnerabilities can have severe…
Jim Dunton reports: The chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency has told MPs that the organisation is still working out the extent of a cyberattack that was uncovered back in the spring. Jane Harbottle told members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that a team of analysts is still exploring how much of the compromised……
Threat hunters have discovered a network of more than 1,000 compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices that have been used to facilitate a prolonged cyber espionage infrastructure campaign for China-nexus hacking groups. The Operational Relay Box (ORB) network has been codenamed LapDogs by SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team. “The LapDogs network has a high concentration…