February 2025

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax 2025-02-25 at 20:06 By Lindsay Clark Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

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Background check, drug testing provider DISA suffers data breach

Background check, drug testing provider DISA suffers data breach 2025-02-25 at 20:06 By Zeljka Zorz DISA Global Solutions, a Texas-based company that provides employment screening services (including drug and alcohol testing and background checks) for over 55,000 organizations, has suffered a cyber incident that led to a data breach, which resulted in the potential compromise

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Apple shareholders expected to reject proposal pressuring them to scrap DEI programs

Apple shareholders expected to reject proposal pressuring them to scrap DEI programs 2025-02-25 at 19:19 By Associated Press Apple shareholders are expected to reject an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into scrapping corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

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LightSpy Expands to 100+ Commands, Increasing Control Over Windows, macOS, Linux, and Mobile

LightSpy Expands to 100+ Commands, Increasing Control Over Windows, macOS, Linux, and Mobile 2025-02-25 at 19:19 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an updated version of the LightSpy implant that comes equipped with an expanded set of data collection features to extract information from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. LightSpy is the name given

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Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware

Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware 2025-02-25 at 19:19 By Opposition activists in Belarus as well as Ukrainian military and government organizations are the target of a new campaign that employs malware-laced Microsoft Excel documents as lures to deliver a new variant of PicassoLoader.  The threat cluster has been assessed to be

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Chinese Botnet Powered by 130,000 Devices Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts

Chinese Botnet Powered by 130,000 Devices Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts 2025-02-25 at 19:11 By Eduard Kovacs A China-linked botnet powered by 130,000 hacked devices has targeted Microsoft 365 accounts with password spraying attacks. The post Chinese Botnet Powered by 130,000 Devices Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Offensive AI Startup Dreadnode Secures $14M to Stress-Test AI Systems

Offensive AI Startup Dreadnode Secures $14M to Stress-Test AI Systems 2025-02-25 at 19:11 By Ryan Naraine Dreadnode is building “offensive machine learning” tools to safely simulate how AI models might be exploited in the wild. The post Offensive AI Startup Dreadnode Secures $14M to Stress-Test AI Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin 2025-02-25 at 18:33 By Richard Speed Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory Scientists reckon the red hue of Mars might have originated in an earlier period in the planet’s past when liquid water was widespread

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware

China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware 2025-02-25 at 18:33 By Zeljka Zorz Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising the malware as legitimate healthcare app (the Philips DICOM viewer), a Windows

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Cybersecurity needs a leader, so let’s stop debating and start deciding

Cybersecurity needs a leader, so let’s stop debating and start deciding 2025-02-25 at 18:09 By Help Net Security Have you ever heard anyone earnestly ask in a business, “Who owns legal?” or “Who sets the financial strategy?” Probably not – it should be obvious, right? Yet, when it comes to cybersecurity, the question of ownership

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Skybox Security Shuts Down, Lays off Entire Workforce 

Skybox Security Shuts Down, Lays off Entire Workforce  2025-02-25 at 18:09 By SecurityWeek News The sudden shutdown follows the sale of Skybox Security’s business and technology assets to rival Israeli cybersecurity firm Tufin.  The post Skybox Security Shuts Down, Lays off Entire Workforce  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Chegg accuses Google of using AI to crush traffic, revenue in antitrust lawsuit: ‘Harmful and unsustainable’

Chegg accuses Google of using AI to crush traffic, revenue in antitrust lawsuit: ‘Harmful and unsustainable’ 2025-02-25 at 17:45 By Thomas Barrabi Chegg has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google – alleging that the company’s use of AI-generated summaries in search engine results has crushed its website traffic and revenue. This article is an

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Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing 2025-02-25 at 17:32 By Connor Jones More than a dozen women came forward with accusations Details about the harassment allegations leveled at DEF CON veteran Christopher Hadnagy have now been revealed after a motion for summary judgment was filed over the weekend.… This article is

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Anti-aging mogul Bryan Johnson claims NY Times preparing ‘hit piece’ about alleged use of prostitutes, drugs

Anti-aging mogul Bryan Johnson claims NY Times preparing ‘hit piece’ about alleged use of prostitutes, drugs 2025-02-25 at 17:19 By Ariel Zilber Bryan Johnson, 47, made his fortune after selling his payment processing company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million in cash in 2013. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product

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Attacks Against Government Entities, Defense Sector, and Human Targets

Attacks Against Government Entities, Defense Sector, and Human Targets 2025-02-25 at 17:08 By Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi In the first part of Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Russia-Ukraine war blog series, we gave a brief look at our major findings as well as the main differences between how Russia and Ukraine wage attacks in the digital frontlines. In

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Open source software vulnerabilities found in 86% of codebases

Open source software vulnerabilities found in 86% of codebases 2025-02-25 at 17:07 By 86% of codebases had open source software vulnerabilities while 81% had high- or critical-risk vulnerabilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Edera Banks $15M for Kubernetes Workload Isolation Tech

Edera Banks $15M for Kubernetes Workload Isolation Tech 2025-02-25 at 16:53 By Ryan Naraine Seattle startup building technology to mitigate lateral movement and block “living off the land” techniques wins interest from investors. The post Edera Banks $15M for Kubernetes Workload Isolation Tech appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Halcyon RDR boosts ransomware protection for organizations

Halcyon RDR boosts ransomware protection for organizations 2025-02-25 at 16:31 By Industry News Halcyon announced Halcyon Ransomware Detection and Recovery (RDR), a no-cost integrated service that is now included with every deployment of the Halcyon Anti-Ransomware Platform. Most 24/7 threat monitoring and response services are not included with software platform purchases and are instead only

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