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Alleged Israeli LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Extradited to U.S. for Cybercrime Charges

A 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national who is alleged to be a developer of the LockBit ransomware group has been extradited to the United States, nearly three months after he was formally charged in connection with the e-crime scheme. Rostislav Panev was previously arrested in Israel in August 2024. He is said to have been working as a developer for the ransomware gang from 2019

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GSMA Confirms End-to-End Encryption for RCS, Enabling Secure Cross-Platform Messaging

The GSM Association (GSMA) has formally announced support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for securing messages sent via the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, bringing much-needed security protections to cross-platform messages shared between Android and iOS platforms. To that end, the new GSMA specifications for RCS include E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol

New Microsoft 365 Phishing Scam Tricks Users Into Calling Fake Support

New Microsoft 365 phishing scam exploits fake support numbers to steal credentials. Learn how attackers bypass security and how to stay protected.

Live Ransomware Demo: See How Hackers Breach Networks and Demand a Ransom

Cyber threats evolve daily. In this live webinar, learn exactly how ransomware attacks unfold—from the initial breach to the moment hackers demand payment. Join Joseph Carson, Delinea’s Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO, who brings 25 years of enterprise security expertise. Through a live demonstration, he will break down every technical step of a ransomware attack, showing you how

Why Most Microsegmentation Projects Fail—And How Andelyn Biosciences Got It Right

Most microsegmentation projects fail before they even get off the ground—too complex, too slow, too disruptive. But Andelyn Biosciences proved it doesn’t have to be that way.  Microsegmentation: The Missing Piece in Zero Trust Security  Security teams today are under constant pressure to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Perimeter-based defenses alone can no

A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.

Announcing the winners of the Adaptive Prompt Injection Challenge (LLMail-Inject)

We are excited to announce the winners of LLMail-Inject, our first Adaptive Prompt Injection Challenge! The challenge ran from December 2024 until February 2025 and was featured as one of the four official competitions of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (IEEE SaTML). The overall aims of this challenge were to advance the state-of-the-art defenses against indirect prompt injection attacks and to broaden awareness of these new techniques.

New MassJacker Malware Targets Piracy Users, Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions

Users searching for pirated software are the target of a new malware campaign that delivers a previously undocumented clipper malware called MassJacker, according to findings from CyberArk. Clipper malware is a type of cryware (as coined by Microsoft) that's designed to monitor a victim's clipboard content and facilitate cryptocurrency theft by substituting copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses

OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection

A new malware campaign has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics to deliver an open-source rootkit called r77. The activity, condemned OBSCURE#BAT by Securonix, enables threat actors to establish persistence and evade detection on compromised systems. It's currently not known who is behind the campaign. The rootkit "has the ability to cloak or mask any file, registry key or task

AI Chatbot DeepSeek R1 Can Be Manipulated to Create Malware

Tenable Research reveals that AI chatbot DeepSeek R1 can be manipulated to generate keyloggers and ransomware code. While…