Author: Robert Timlick

  • Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

    Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

    Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud.
    The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure of
  • New .NET CAPI Backdoor Targets Russian Auto and E-Commerce Firms via Phishing ZIPs

    New .NET CAPI Backdoor Targets Russian Auto and E-Commerce Firms via Phishing ZIPs

    Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce sectors with a previously undocumented .NET malware dubbed CAPI Backdoor.
    According to Seqrite Labs, the attack chain involves distributing phishing emails containing a ZIP archive as a way to trigger the infection. The cybersecurity company’s analysis is based on the ZIP
  • Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT

    Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT

    The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins).
    “The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao, researcher with Fortinet’s FortiGuard
  • North Korean Hackers Combine BeaverTail and OtterCookie into Advanced JS Malware

    North Korean Hackers Combine BeaverTail and OtterCookie into Advanced JS Malware

    The North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs, indicating that the hacking group is actively refining its toolset.
    That’s according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said recent campaigns undertaken by the hacking group have seen the functions of BeaverTail and OtterCookie coming
  • Identity Security: Your First and Last Line of Defense

    Identity Security: Your First and Last Line of Defense

    The danger isn’t that AI agents have bad days — it’s that they never do. They execute faithfully, even when what they’re executing is a mistake. A single misstep in logic or access can turn flawless automation into a flawless catastrophe.
    This isn’t some dystopian fantasy—it’s Tuesday at the office now. We’ve entered a new phase where autonomous AI agents act with serious system privileges. They
  • Researchers Uncover WatchGuard VPN Bug That Could Let Attackers Take Over Devices

    Researchers Uncover WatchGuard VPN Bug That Could Let Attackers Take Over Devices

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a recently patched critical security flaw in WatchGuard Fireware that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.
    The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9242 (CVSS score: 9.3), is described as an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Fireware OS 11.10.2 up to and including 11.12.4_Update1, 12.0 up to and including
  • Microsoft Revokes 200 Fraudulent Certificates Used in Rhysida Ransomware Campaign

    Microsoft Revokes 200 Fraudulent Certificates Used in Rhysida Ransomware Campaign

    Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it revoked more than 200 certificates used by a threat actor it tracks as Vanilla Tempest to fraudulently sign malicious binaries in ransomware attacks.
    The certificates were “used in fake Teams setup files to deliver the Oyster backdoor and ultimately deploy Rhysida ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post shared on X.
    The tech
  • North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts

    North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts

    A threat actor with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method.
    The activity has been attributed by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat cluster it tracks as UNC5342,
  • Architectures, Risks, and Adoption: How to Assess and Choose the Right AI-SOC Platform

    Architectures, Risks, and Adoption: How to Assess and Choose the Right AI-SOC Platform

    Scaling the SOC with AI – Why now? 
    Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are under unprecedented pressure. According to SACR’s AI-SOC Market Landscape 2025, the average organization now faces around 960 alerts per day, while large enterprises manage more than 3,000 alerts daily from an average of 28 different tools. Nearly 40% of those alerts go uninvestigated, and 61% of security teams admit
  • Beware the Hidden Costs of Pen Testing

    Beware the Hidden Costs of Pen Testing

    Penetration testing helps organizations ensure IT systems are secure, but it should never be treated in a one-size-fits-all approach. Traditional approaches can be rigid and cost your organization time and money – while producing inferior results. 
    The benefits of pen testing are clear. By empowering “white hat” hackers to attempt to breach your system using similar tools and techniques to