Cyber News & Articles

Cyber News & Articles

Google Adds Multi-Layered Defenses to Secure GenAI from Prompt Injection Attacks 

Google has revealed the various safety measures that are being incorporated into its generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to mitigate emerging attack vectors like indirect prompt injections and improve the overall security posture for agentic AI systems.
“Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections

read more
Cyber News & Articles

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, 7.3 Tbps DDoS, MFA Bypass Tricks, Banking Trojan and More 

Not every risk looks like an attack. Some problems start as small glitches, strange logs, or quiet delays that don’t seem urgent—until they are. What if your environment is already being tested, just not in ways you expected?
Some of the most dangerous moves are hidden in plain sight. It’s worth asking: what patterns are we missing, and what signals are we ignoring because they don’t match old

read more
Cyber News & Articles

Scattered Spider Behind Cyberattacks on M&S and Co-op, Causing Up to $592M in Damages 

The April 2025 cyber attacks targeting U.K. retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been classified as a “single combined cyber event.”
That’s according to an assessment from the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a U.K.-based independent, non-profit body set up by the insurance industry to categorize major cyber events.
“Given that one threat actor claimed responsibility for both M&S and

read more
Cyber News & Articles

Qilin Ransomware Adds “Call Lawyer” Feature to Pressure Victims for Larger Ransoms 

The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals.
The new feature takes the form of a “Call Lawyer” feature on the affiliate panel, per Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason.
The

read more
Cyber News & Articles

Iran’s State TV Hijacked Mid-Broadcast Amid Geopolitical Tensions; $90M Stolen in Crypto Heist 

Iran’s state-owned TV broadcaster was hacked Wednesday night to interrupt regular programming and air videos calling for street protests against the Iranian government, according to multiple reports.
It’s currently not known who is behind the attack, although Iran pointed fingers at Israel, per Iran International.
“If you experience disruptions or irrelevant messages while watching various TV

read more
Cyber News & Articles

Qilin offers “Call a lawyer” button for affiliates attempting to extort ransoms from victims who won’t pay 

Imagine for one moment that you are a cybercriminal.

You have compromised an organisation’s network, you have stolen their data, you have encrypted their network, and you are now knee-deep in the ransomware negotiation.

However, there’s a problem. Your target is stalling for time. Who can you, as the perpetrator of the crime rather than the innocent victim, turn to for advice?

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

read more
Cyber News & Articles

6 Steps to 24/7 In-House SOC Success 

Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That’s when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation.
When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over Easter weekend, they were forced to shut down their online operations, which account for

read more
Cyber News & Articles

Massive 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37.4 TB in 45 Seconds, Targeting Hosting Provider 

Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider.
“Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks,” Cloudflare’s Omer

read more
Cyber News & Articles

67 Trojanized GitHub Repositories Found in Campaign Targeting Gamers and Developers 

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new campaign in which the threat actors have published more than 67 GitHub repositories that claim to offer Python-based hacking tools, but deliver trojanized payloads instead.
The activity, codenamed Banana Squad by ReversingLabs, is assessed to be a continuation of a rogue Python campaign that was identified in 2023 as targeting the Python Package

read more

NEW CUSTOMERS CALL TODAY: 720.221.6804  |  EXISTING CUSTOMERS REQUIRING SUPPORT: 303.617.6442

X