Collaborate Disseminate
The EU and the UK jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities, accusing Moscow of coordinating a malicious cyber ecosystem targeting Europe, its member states, and international partners. The UK sanctioned 24 individuals and entities,… Continue reading EU and UK blacklist Russia’s cyber operators over efforts to destabilize Europe
A former ransomware negotiator at incident response firm DigitalMint has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after admitting he shared confidential client information with the BlackCat ransomware group and later helped carry out ransomware attacks. P… Continue reading Ransomware negotiator who betrayed clients sentenced to 70 months in prison
Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly. A malicious supplie… Continue reading A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors
Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful of small utilities that one person maintains i… Continue reading The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer
Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government agencies. California gives residents a way to push back. You can ask a broker to de… Continue reading Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request
Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across bloc… Continue reading AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity
Criminals who pose as police officers, romantic partners, and business suppliers have built fraud operations that reach across continents. A four-month enforcement campaign against these schemes wrapped up, and police in 97 countries and territories to… Continue reading 5,811 arrests, $293 million seized over social engineering scams
Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. Each one is a little bundle of plain-English instructions, scripts, and files th… Continue reading Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them
Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests sent from developers in one economy to public repositories in another, grew b… Continue reading Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers
Fraudsters spent 2025 investing in scale. New routes, new tools, and higher message volumes moved through the SMS, voice, and chat channels that businesses rely on to reach customers. Money follows that activity. The Communications Fraud Control Associ… Continue reading Messaging fraud trends point to smarter attacks, stronger blocking