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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several key threats and trends. Apple has introduced Secure Exclaves to enhance the protection of camera and microphone data while processing. Google released a second Chrome update this week to patch vulnerabilities that could enable code execution by attackers. Phishing attacks in Europe are surging at a rate significantly higher than the global average, increasing by 4.5 times year-over-year. Law enforcement agencies arrested 354 individuals in a major crackdown on dark web criminal activities, while operations targeting malicious infrastructures like Gootloader and CastleRAT have disrupted significant cybercrime networks. Additionally, critical vulnerabilities in systems like Check Point and Citrix have been exploited, emphasizing the ongoing risk of zero-day flaws. The recent worldwide outage of Microsoft 365 has raised alarms about potential exploitation by cybercriminals during this disruption.
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Chinese hackers have been spotted targeting European diplomats using a longstanding Windows shortcut vulnerability that’s been popular with threat groups as far back as 2017.
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I've been giving talks lately about the evolution of phishing attacks - tracking them from the Nigerian Prince emails of 1993 all the way to today's deepfake video calls. It's a fun trip down memory lane, filled with AOL phishing scams and QR code zebras (long story). But here's what I've real...
I can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian.
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For too long, we’ve treated DNS as a simple utility. It’s just a phonebook for the internet, right? Treating it that way is a mistake. Nearly every single malicious action, whether it’s a phishing link, a command-and-control (C2) callback, or data exfiltration, starts with a DNS query. It is integr...
Published 3:00 p.m. ET on October 31, 2025; last updated 5:00 p.m. ET on October 31, 2025
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