US surrenders systems to Russian hackers
The Russians are not a threat any more
President Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump's administration has decided that Russia is no longer a cyber threat to the United States.
Anonymous wades into Musk
We are coming for you
The hacker collective Anonymous issued a stern warning to Elon [Roman Salute] Musk, accusing the chainsaw-weilding, bouncing Leatherface of manipulating cryptocurrency markets and disregarding the welfare of average investors.
Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks last year
Halloween 2024 was the worst ever
Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defence systems thwarted approximately 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a significant 53 per cent increase from 2023.
Sophos X-Ops spots two active cyber threat campaigns
Microsoft Office 365 and Remote Management tools targeted
Sophos X-Ops has uncovered two active cyber threat campaigns. In these campaigns, separate teams of cybercriminals exploit the Microsoft Office 365 platform and remote management tools like Quick Assist to breach companies' IT networks, steal data, and deploy ransomware.
UK bans public sector from paying ransomware hackers
No money there anyway
UK public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could be banned from making ransom payments under new government proposals.
Hackers tell Red Cross to go away
We are too cool to follow your rules
The Red Cross had an optimistic go at writing a sent of rules for cyber-warfare in the hope that hackers might follow them.
Russian hackers trying to bring down Starlink
Ukraine counter-intelligence claims
Russian hackers are flat-out trying to come up with a way to bring down Elon [Musk] Musk's Starlink satellites, Ukraine's counter-intelligence agency has claimed.
White hat hackers will try to break into a satellite
August DEFCON hacker convention project
White-hat hackers at the DEFCON hacker convention will compete to try and breach the computer systems on a satellite in orbit.
Chinese-state hackers compromised "critical" US cyber infrastructure
Microsoft said they were intelligence gathering
Microsoft has warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers, known as "Volt Typhoon," have compromised "critical" US cyberinfrastructure across various industries focusing on gathering intelligence.
Hackers take on AI
DEF CON AI Village People looking for flaws
This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.