The State of Ransomware in Retail 2025

Ashutosh reports: The recent npm supply chain breach shows just how fragile open source ecosystems can be when trust in a single maintainer account is abused. Hackers tricked the maintainer of chalk, debug, ansi-styles, and several other popular npm packages with a phishing email disguised as official support. Once they gained access, they pushed malicious……

A 23-year-old Serbian youth activist had their Android phone targeted by a zero-day exploit developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device, according to a new report from Amnesty International. “The Android phone of one student protester was exploited and unlocked by a sophisticated zero-day exploit chain targeting Android USB drivers, developed by Cellebrite,” the international…

Sophos Firewall is once again pioneering new innovations.

Jonathan Greig reports on another vulnerability affecting file transfer software that has been exploited soon after disclosure. In this case, though, there’s some contentious statements about responsible disclosure or lack thereof. Federal cybersecurity officials as well as incident responders at cyber companies say hackers are exploiting a vulnerability within the popular file transfer tool Crush….

Let’s be honest: if you’re one of the first (or the first) security hires at a small or midsize business, chances are you’re also the unofficial CISO, SOC, IT Help Desk, and whatever additional roles need filling. You’re not running a security department. You are THE security department. You’re getting pinged about RFPs in one…

Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances. This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to