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Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS-for-Hire Domains, Exposes 3M Accounts
International law enforcement coordinated under Operation PowerOFF has seized 53 domains tied to DDoS-for-hire services, commonly known as booters or stressers.
Payouts King ransomware hides payloads inside QEMU VMs to evade endpoint scans
Sophos has documented two active campaigns abusing the open-source QEMU emulator to run hidden Alpine Linux virtual machines on compromised Windows hosts, placi
Sanctioned Grinex exchange loses $13.7M, pins breach on 'Western intelligence'
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-based crypto exchange widely regarded as a rebrand of the seized Russian platform Garantex, halted operations after attackers drained $13.7
Three Defender Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation, Two Remain Unpatched
Three zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Defender are being actively exploited in the wild, with only one of the flaws currently addressed by a patch. The re
Tycoon 2FA Operators Pivot to Device Code Phishing After Takedown Pressure
Operators behind the Tycoon 2FA phishing-as-a-service kit are fragmenting and shifting tactics, moving toward device code phishing as law enforcement and platfo
AI SOCs Stuck at Triage: Why Summarizing Alerts Isn't Running Operations
Vendors are flooding the market with 'AI SOC' platforms, but most simply accelerate the front end of the workflow — summarizing alerts, enriching events, and su
Artemis II crew backs NASA pivot to lunar surface base after deep-space test flight
NASA's Artemis II astronauts, fresh off the first human deep-space mission in over five decades, say building a permanent lunar base is achievable on an acceler
ATHR turns vishing into a productized SaaS — AI agents handle the calls
ATHR is a new underground platform that productizes telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) end-to-end: email lure generation, brand-specific templates, sende
Cisco patches critical Webex SSO flaw, forces customers to rotate SAML certificates
Cisco pushed fixes for four critical vulnerabilities this week, headlined by CVE-2026-20184 in Webex Services. The bug sat in the SSO integration with Control H
Cisco Ships Emergency Fixes for Four Critical ISE and Webex RCE Bugs
Cisco has released patches addressing four critical vulnerabilities across its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Webex product lines, each capable of enabling
Datasette 1.0a27 drops Django-style CSRF for header-based protection, adds rename events
The latest Datasette alpha replaces Django-style CSRF form tokens with a modern header-based approach modeled on Filippo Valsorda's browser-header technique. Th
datasette-export-database 0.3a1 patches CSRF cookie breakage from Datasette 1.0a27
Simon Willison shipped a point release of his datasette-export-database plugin to repair a regression introduced by Datasette 1.0a27. The plugin had been relyin