On February 21, 2025, Bybit reported that it had suffered a massive cryptocurrency theft, estimated at 1.46 billion USD using that day's exchange rate. Ethereum (ETH) was stolen from one of its ETH cold wallets, which stores cryptocurrency private keys offline. In practice, private keys are transfe
An unknown leaker, going by the alias ExploitedWhispers, has released what they claim to be an archive of internal Matrix chat logs belonging to the Black Basta ransomware operation. Now removed, the stolen messages were originally uploaded to the MEGA file-sharing platform. Since their removal fro
According to a recent report by Sysdig, threat actors employing a new hacking technique known as LLMJacking are actively targeting DeepSeek's latest Large Language Model (LLM) and those using the model for their specific GenAI needs. LLMJacking was first discovered by Sysdig researchers in mid
Last week, the world was stunned by the performance offered by DeepSeek's R1 Large Language Model, and for a fraction of the cost, it took Open AI and others to develop a model. Along with news regarding how DeepSeek impacted US markets and its possible "Sputnik" moment, DeepSeek also made cybersecu
Even now, in 2025, ransomware is still one of the most profitable cyber threats for threat actors with the skills to implement attacks. Due in part to this profitability, the threat's evolution continues at breakneck speeds, leaving organizations struggling to defend their digital assets. This is o
According to a recent report published by Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, researchers discovered an attack campaign using a carefully crafted backdoor to target enterprise-grade Juniper routers. Briefly, the attack begins with a passive agent that continuously monitors for a "magic packet" sent by the att
In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a Russian-speaking threat actor, tracked by Microsoft as Star Blizzard, abusing WhatsApp to supplement spear-phishing tactics that target high-value diplomats. As a phishing delivery vehicle, WhatsApp changes the threat actor's long-standi
In a joint statement issued by the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea and published in English on the U.S. Department of State's website. The above-listed countries stated, The United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea join together to provide a new warning to the blockch
According to a recent blog post by Scam Sniffer, a cryptocurrency monitoring service specializing in tracking illicit activity across blockchains, wallet drainers have been used to steal 494 million USD from crypto wallets in 2024. Wallet drainers are a family of malware typically deployed on phish
According to a report by cybersecurity firm Cleafy, a new Malware-as-a-Service has begun operating, with much evidence pointing to the malware's developers operating within Turkey. Cleafy has called the malware itself DroidBot, based on the domain used to host the malware's infrastructure. In