Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

Update Jan. 16 at 11 pm: This article has been updated to include responses from CertiK and PeckShield. Losses to crypto scams, exploits and hacks tapered off in the last months of 2024, with December ...

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Serbian law enforcement officials are using a Cellebrite mobile "information extraction" product in tandem with an exploit chain to target dissidents, including most recently the phone of a Serbian ...

Losses to crypto scams, exploits and hacks totaled nearly $1.53 billion in February, with the $1.4 billion Bybit hack accounting for the lion’s share of losses, said blockchain security firm CertiK.

M Vol. 24h: $5.64 M executed, on December 22, a governance-approved hard fork to recover around $9.4 million of the frozen ...

$1 million WhatsApp hack at Pwn2Own Ireland confirmed. October 23 should stick in the memory of smartphone users for some time to come. This is the day that the Samsung Galaxy S25 was hacked, ...

Sony’s weighed in on the question of whether its PlayStation Network online login was “hacked” yesterday. Its verdict: not a hack, just an “exploit.” “We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit was exploited for more than $1.4 billion on Feb. 21, making it the single largest hack in the industry’s 15-year history. In value terms, the attack represented more than ...

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Researchers earned a total of $320,000 at the Zeroday.Cloud live hacking competition of cloud security giant Wiz.

TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.