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The tranche of information includes data on recent campaigns, attack tools, compromised credentials, and command files used by a threat actor believed to be acting on behalf of China or North Korea.

A whole criminal ecosystem revolves around scamming users out of their cryptocurrency assets, but malicious — or vulnerable — smart contracts could be used against businesses as well.

Silver Fox is the Hannah Montana of Chinese threat actors, effortlessly swapping between petty criminal and nation-state-type attacks.

While no sensitive financial data like credit card information was compromised, the threat actors were able to get away with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more.

Security startups of all stripes submitted applications for Black Hat USA's Startup Spotlight. Prime Security won with its AI security architect platform.

A software developer discovered a way to abuse an undocumented protocol in Amazon's Elastic Container Service to escalate privileges, cross boundaries and gain access to other cloud resources.

As part of their plea deal, the cybercriminal founders will also have to forfeit more than $200 million.

Citizen Lab director and founder Ron Deibert explained how civil society is locked in "vicious cycle," and human rights are being abused as a result, covering Israeli spyware, the Khashoggi killing, and an erosion of democratic norms in the US.

In 2024, it was Snowflake. In 2025, it's Salesforce. ShinyHunters is back, with low-tech hacks that nonetheless manage to bring down international megaliths like Google, Cisco, and Adidas.