Sophos tops G2 Fall 2025 Reports: #1 Overall in MDR and Firewall

Cheap Android smartphones manufactured by Chinese companies have been observed pre-installed with trojanized apps masquerading as WhatsApp and Telegram that contain cryptocurrency clipper functionality as part of a campaign since June 2024. While using malware-laced apps to steal financial information is not a new phenomenon, the new findings from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web point…

An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. “In some of those campaigns, Israeli technology and cyber security professionals were approached by attackers who posed as fictitious assistants to

In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months. “On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to…

The following are just a few of the pictures I took today at a “No Kings” protest held in Nassau County, New York. It was a peaceful protest. There was a larger-than-expected turnout, with minimal and respectful police presence. As I anticipated in my post explaining why I was going, there were a lot of……

The cybersecurity landscape in 2025 will demand a careful balance between robust defense mechanisms and adaptive resilience. The post Anticipating the Cyber Frontier: Top Predictions for 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Some data leaks are not what you might expect from their listing on a dark web leak site. Today’s example is courtesy of a ransomware group that listed a medical practice on its leak site and then published the data. Because it was a medical practice, DataBreaches started to inspect the data tranche. To my…