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European police said raids against the KillSec ransomware-as-a-service operation included the arrest of a high-profile teen suspect.

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid.

The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site.

Investigators identified him as KillSec’s suspected

This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years.

That is the lesson running through the list. Attackers do not always need a brilliant new trick. They can

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again.

The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the “SC_” markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a “self-healing mesh” that’s

Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises the change-freeze calendar. The finding gets an exception, a compensating control, and a date

The Series B brings the AI-powered offensive security startup’s total funding to roughly $445 million only seven months after its public launch.

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The US government continues its crackdown on Tren de Aragua over its ATM jackpotting scheme.

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The flaws were chained to hijack sessions, achieve remote code execution, and elevate privileges to root.

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Roughly 200,000 of the credentials were exposed after GitHub enabled push protections by default.

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OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

A “core cluster of the activity,” going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company based in Beijing. It did not cite any