Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomware-as-a-service crew in town: VanHelsing, touting a cross-platform locker targeting Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi systems, among others.

DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a lot of their customers’ gateways

Cloudy infosec outfit Wiz has discovered serious vulnerabilities in the admission controller component of Ingress-Nginx Controller that could allow the total takeover of Kubernetes clusters

An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding –

Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss secret government business – including detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen –

The FCC is investigating whether Chinese manufacturers black-listed on its so-called Covered List – including Huawei – are still somehow doing business in America, either

Interview Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from China or another adversarial nation. So

Microsoft’s Security Copilot is getting some degree of agency, allowing the underlying AI model to interact more broadly with the company’s security software to automate

Beleaguered DNA testing biz 23andMe – hit by a massive cyber attack in 2023 – is filing for bankruptcy protection in the US following years

Analysis Is the US retreating from its hardline stance on crypto? On Friday, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions imposed on notorious crypto mixer Tornado

Opinion Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when “but it’s both” is

Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights

Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent. The two orgs last Friday

Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen. A crook late last week

Interview Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a

Interview Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a

The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud. CEO

Infosec newsbytes Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh