Sophos Acquires Secureworks for $859 Million

Sophos has completed its acquisition of managed cyber security services provider Secureworks.

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Credential Theft Becomes Cybercriminals’ Favorite Target

Researchers measured a threefold increase in credential stealing between 2023 and 2024, with more than 11.3 million such thefts last year.

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U.K. Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for Companies Developing AI

The Cyber Code of Practice applies to developers, system operators, and organisations that create, deploy, or manage AI systems.

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Ferret Malware Added to ‘Contagious Interview’ Campaign

Targets are lured into a fake interview process that convinces them to download malware needed for a virtual interview.

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Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer

Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to TechCrunch on Tuesday that, “Paragon licenses its technology to a select group of global democracies — principally, the United States and its allies.” […]

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Sophos Completes Acquisition of Secureworks

Sophos has completed its $859 million all-cash acquisition of SecureWorks.

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Jailbreak Anthropic’s new AI safety system for a $15,000 reward

In testing, the technique helped Claude block 95% of jailbreak attempts. But the process still needs more ‘real-world’ red-teaming.

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Chinese ‘Infrastructure Laundering’ Abuses AWS, Microsoft Cloud

Funnull CDN rents IPs from legitimate cloud service providers and uses them to host criminal websites, continuously cycling cloud resources in and out of use and acquiring new ones to stay ahead of cyber-defender detection.

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Cybercriminals Court Traitorous Insiders via Ransom Notes

Ransomware actors are offering individuals millions to turn on their employers and divulge private company information, in a brand-new cybercrime tactic.

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Grubhub says hack on third-party exposed information on campus customers

In a statement published on Monday evening, the company said it recently identified a security incident that “originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub.”

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