Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise 2025-08-27 at 23:07 By Thomas Claburn AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]
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Windows Backup for Organizations doesn’t actually save data files 2025-08-27 at 22:49 By Richard Speed Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration Microsoft continues to take what’s familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.… This article is an excerpt from The
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Storm-0501 Exploits Entra ID to Exfiltrate and Delete Azure Data in Hybrid Cloud Attacks 2025-08-27 at 22:48 By The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. “Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware to encrypt
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Will $5K ETH follow Friday’s $5 billion Ether options expiry? 2025-08-27 at 22:05 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman $5 billion in ETH options expire on Friday, possibly opening the door for bulls to push through the $5,000 barrier. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev 2025-08-27 at 22:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects – and more than 30 Department of Defense ones – appears to have a sole maintainer whose online
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Malicious Screen Connect Campaign Abuses AI-Themed Lures for Xworm Delivery 2025-08-27 at 21:47 By Bolesław Szołtysik, Chris Tomboc, Serhii Melnyk During a recent Advanced Continual Threat Hunt (ACTH) investigation, the Trustwave SpiderLabs Threat Hunt team identified a deceptive campaign that abused fake AI-themed content to lure users into executing a malicious, pre-configured ScreenConnect installer. This
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Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S 2025-08-27 at 21:33 By Richard Speed Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default Ever get that sinking feeling when Word crashes before you’ve made your first save? An application update is set to save
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Microsoft has cops arrest 7 anti-Israel protesters who stormed, occupied president’s office 2025-08-27 at 21:05 By Ariel Zilber The action was the latest in a series of confrontations led by “No Azure for Apartheid,” which is urging Microsoft to sever contracts with Israel. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF holdings overtake Coinbase, Binance; ETH may be next 2025-08-27 at 21:05 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly BlackRock is emerging as the top custodian for Bitcoin and Ether as its ETFs continue to reshape market dynamics in 2025. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Ledn, Sygnum refinance $50M Bitcoin loan amid investor scramble for yield 2025-08-27 at 21:05 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The twice-oversubscribed facility underscores rising institutional demand for Bitcoin-backed credit and inflation-resistant yield products. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more 2025-08-27 at 21:05 By Tim Anderson Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit? The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers for MySQL and SQLite, a YAML parser, and
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Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack 2025-08-27 at 20:48 By Connor Jones Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday
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Move over mixtapes, Spotify users can now slide into each other’s DMs to share songs — but not everyone is happy 2025-08-27 at 20:18 By Brooke Steinberg Spotify is giving listeners a new way to slide into someone’s DMs. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post
Uncle Sam throws AI ‘chili cook-off’ to spice up healthcare fraud detection 2025-08-27 at 20:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models
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Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model 2025-08-27 at 20:18 By Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time. The
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The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams 2025-08-27 at 20:03 By Jessica Lyons Don’t let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise’s on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org’s Azure environment. The criminals
Hackers Weaponize Trust with AI-Crafted Emails to Deploy ScreenConnect 2025-08-27 at 20:01 By Kevin Townsend AI-powered phishing attacks leverage ConnectWise ScreenConnect for remote access, underscoring their sophistication. The post Hackers Weaponize Trust with AI-Crafted Emails to Deploy ScreenConnect appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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ScreenConnect Super Admins Hit by Credential Harvesting Campaign 2025-08-27 at 19:39 View original post at Safety Detectives A credential harvesting campaign has been targeting ScreenConnect cloud administrators with super admin privileges, raising concerns about ransomware operations. Mimecast researchers said the attacks, tracked as MCTO3030, have been active since 2022 and rely on spear-phishing emails sent
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Hundreds of Salesforce Customers Hit by Widespread Data Theft Campaign 2025-08-27 at 19:31 By Ionut Arghire Google says the hackers systematically exported corporate data, focusing on secrets such as AWS and Snowflake keys. The post Hundreds of Salesforce Customers Hit by Widespread Data Theft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from
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Hackers Observed Patching Leveraged Linux Exploit 2025-08-27 at 19:24 By An Apache ActiveMQ flaw is being actively exploited. Then, it’s being patched by the actors who leveraged it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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