Sophos ranked #1 overall for Firewall, MDR, and EDR in the G2 Winter 2025 Reports
Sophos was also ranked the #1 solution in 36 individual reports spanning the Antivirus, EDR, Endpoint Protection Suites, XDR, Firewall, and MDR markets.
“Dissent Doe,” DataBreaches.net admin@databreaches.net Zack Whittaker, this.weekinsecurity.com this@weekinsecurity.com February 2026. [Download .pdf version] Key takeaways Three-quarters of respondents in a pilot survey of journalists and security researchers reported receiving one or more threats due to their work; one-quarter reported never receiving any threats. Overall, half of the respondents reported receiving at least one legal threat…….
The Insider reports: In September 2024, the FBI published an indictment against a group of hackers working for GRU Unit 29155, the same military unit that became famous for poisoning Skripal in Salisbury. It has long been known that the GRU has hacker units, The Insider was the first to prove this back in 2017, and then it was…
Last night, DataBreaches received a tip about a website with a new report exposing the Nova RaaS gang (“Nova”). Nova (formerly known as RALord) is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group. The ransomware, reportedly based on Babuk source code, encrypts victims’ files and then attempts to extort them into paying for a decryptor and for data deletion…….
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new technique that cybercriminals have adopted to bypass social media platform X’s malvertising protections and propagate malicious links using its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Grok. The findings were highlighted by Nati Tal, head of Guardio Labs, in a series of posts on X. The technique has been codenamed Grokking. The…
Japan’s CERT coordination center (JPCERT/CC) on Thursday revealed it observed incidents that involved the use of a command-and-control (C2) framework called CrossC2, which is designed to extend the functionality of Cobalt Strike to other platforms like Linux and Apple macOS for cross-platform system control. The agency said the activity was detected between September and December…
There’s an update to the City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida that affected 500,000 residents but also resulted in the city trying to muzzle a whistleblower who tried to inform the community of the true extent of the breach. Jordan Laird reports: Days before the one-year anniversary of the cyberattack that temporarily crippled Columbus’ computer…