Cyber News & Articles
Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time
Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them.
Below is the path from reactive firefighting to a
China-Linked Ink Dragon Hacks Governments Using ShadowPad and FINALDRAFT Malware
The threat actor known as Jewelbug has been increasingly focusing on government targets in Europe since July 2025, even as it continues to attack entities located in Southeast Asia and South America.
Check Point Research is tracking the cluster under the name Ink Dragon. It’s also referenced by the broader cybersecurity community under the names CL-STA-0049, Earth Alux, and REF7707. The
Surveillance at sea: Cruise firm bans smart glasses to curb covert recording
If you’re planning a cruise for your holidays, and cannot bear the idea of being parted from your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, you may want to avoid sailing with MSC Cruises.
The cruise line has updated its list of prohibited items, specifically banning smart glasses and similar wearable devices from public areas.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads
A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious JavaScript code designed to hijack affiliate links, inject tracking code, and commit click and ad fraud.
The extensions have been collectively downloaded over 50,000 times, according to Koi Security, which discovered the campaign. The add-ons are no longer available.
Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign
An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining.
The activity, first detected by Amazon’s GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security monitoring systems on November 2, 2025, employs never-before-seen persistence techniques to hamper
Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and its author to sneak in a cryptocurrency wallet stealer.
The malicious package, named “Tracer.Fody.NLog,” remained on the repository for nearly six years. It was published by a user named “csnemess” on February 26, 2020. It masquerades as “Tracer.Fody,”
The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake
In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids’ homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other’s minds.
Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn’t work unless you want to make your AI dumber; Network Rail delays 32 trains because of an AI photo of a wonky bridge; and our hosts ponder the explosion of progress on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware.
Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025.
Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has
Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as the surface area they must cover is expanding quickly while their staffing levels remain largely