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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is planning to launch an update to a 2021 guideline for SBOM requirements

Transparent Tribe targets Indian government using weaponized .desktop files since 2022, enabling persistence and credential theft.

Depuis plusieurs jours, WhatAapp dévoile, à travers un message destiné à ses utilisateurs, de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour ne pas tomber dans les pièges de « groupes que vous ne connaissez pas ». Ces nouveaux outils répondent à un réel besoin de sécurisation de la plateforme aux 3 milliards d'utilisateurs mensuels.

APT36 uses Linux .desktop files in new attacks on Indian gov & defense, aiming for data theft and persistent espionage access.

A list of topics we covered in the week of August 18 to August 24 of 2025

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Julie-Anne Kearns about what it felt like, as a scam hunter, to fall for a scam.

Malicious Go module published June 24, 2022 steals SSH credentials via Telegram bot, evading detection.

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita confirms ransomware breach exposed personal and health data of nearly 2.7M individuals.

CVE-2024-36401 exploited since 2024 enables stealthy monetization of 7,100 GeoServer instances worldwide.

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Murky Panda (Silk Typhoon) exploits trusted relationships in cloud environments to gain initial access to the networks and data of downstream customers.

Nice short article on the bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

This academic year, I am taking a sabbatical from the Kennedy School and Harvard University. (It’s not a real sabbatical—I’m just an adjunct—but it’s the same idea.) I will be spending the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. I will be organizing a reading group on AI security in the fall. I will be teaching my cybersecurity policy class in the Spring. I will be working with Citizen Lab, the Law School, and the Schwartz Reisman Institute. And I will be enjoying all the multicultural offerings of Toronto...

INTERPOL arrested 1,209 cybercriminals in 18 African nations seizing $97.4M, and dismantling 11,432 malicious infrastructures.

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India.

Une enquête menée par 404 Media révèle les dessous d'un marché peu scrupuleux qui ne cesse d'évoluer. Celui des Flipper Zero, ou plus précisément celui des logiciels que cet outil peut embarquer. Les dernières versions, disponibles à l'achat sous le manteau, permettent de déverrouiller une très large gamme de modèles

Operation Serengeti 2.0 dismantled almost 11,500 malicious infrastructures between June and August. Officials arrested more than 1,200 alleged cybercriminals.

A clickjack attack was revealed this summer that can steal the credentials from password managers that are integrated into web browsers.

The state-linked espionage group has exploited zero-day flaws in Commvault and Citrix Netscaler, researchers say.

The document is primarily meant for federal agencies, but CISA hopes businesses will also use it to push vendors for software bills of materials.

A new infostealer malware targeting Mac devices, called 'Shamos,' is targeting Mac devices in ClickFix attacks that impersonate troubleshooting guides and fixes.

Grok AI chats that users wanted to share with individual people were in fact shared with the broader web and searchable by everyone.

Phishing emails with RAR archives exploit Linux filename injection to deliver VShell backdoor, bypassing antivirus defenses

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave civilian federal agencies until September 11 to implement a fix for CVE-2025-43300 — a vulnerability affecting popular brands of Apple phones, iPads and Macbooks.

The tech manufacturer Data I/O reported a ransomware attack to federal regulators, writing that the incident has taken down critical operational systems.

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Security teams can’t fully trust computers to make autonomous decisions, but they need to trust AI agents to scan environments and act quickly.

Authorities across Africa have dismantled large-scale cybercrime and fraud networks, arresting over three months more than 1,200 people suspected of carrying out ransomware attacks, online scams, and business email compromise schemes, Interpol said.

Operation Serengeti 2.0 operators helped recover $97.4m stolen by cybercriminals

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 security updates are causing severe lag and stuttering issues with NDI streaming software on some Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.

INTERPOL’s Operation Serengeti 2.0 Arrests 1,209 Cybercriminals in Africa, Recovers $97.4M, Dismantles 11,432 Infrastructures