Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.
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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.
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Pre-Baked Firmware Malware Hits Budget Android Devices in 150+ Countries

Midnight Mimosa is the name given to a malware campaign primarily running preinstalled on low-cost Android devices.
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Security Awareness Training Isn’t Dead, but It Needs a Rethink

All enterprises conduct security awareness training for their employees. But whether this has tangible benefits is debatable.
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Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand Autonomous Offensive Security Platform

Hadrian offers an agentic offensive security platform that allows defenders to operate at the same speed as attackers.
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Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation

Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering.
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doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures

doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority.
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