US Indicts 17 Iranians Over Years-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign
US Indicts 17 Iranians Over Years-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026 The US charged 17 Iranians over...
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StopAndProtect Turns 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Into a Criminal Network
StopAndProtect Turns 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Into a Criminal Network Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026 StopAndProtect turned nearly 2,000 hacked...
Inside Operation CameraSwarm: How One Actor Took Over 14,000 Dahua Cameras
Inside Operation CameraSwarm: How One Actor Took Over 14,000 Dahua Cameras Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026 An exposed operator directory...
Microsoft Tracks MacSync Stealer by Its Behavior, Not Its Domains
Microsoft Tracks MacSync Stealer by Its Behavior, Not Its Domains Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026 Microsoft tracked over 30 MacSync...
Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around...
Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device
Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device This is disturbing: …a team of security researchers at UC San Diego, who found that...
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this...
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in...
Nimbus Manticore Deploys NightLedger and Turns Victim Systems Into Covert Relays
Ravie LakshmananJul 28, 2026Malware / Cyber Espionage The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as Nimbus Manticore (aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten,...
Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about...
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking...
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking...
Iran-Linked Hackers Use New Cavern C2 Framework to Target Israeli Organizations
An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular...
19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges
Swati KhandelwalJul 01, 2026Cybercrime / Ransomware A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited...
124M Passwords Exposed as Infostealer Malware Hits Millions of Devices
The era of hacking corporate databases may be giving way to something far more direct. Have I Been Pwned has...