This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video "One thing is really clear in all the CISO conversations I̵
Our experts discovered a new CoolClient backdoor variant with a kernel-mode rootkit driver that hides malicious processes, files, and network connections from security tools and threat analysts.
Today, we’re announcing that AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will discontinue support for email-validated public certificates by September 30, 2027. If you use email validation for your ACM public certi
For the past year, the ransomware conversation has centered on concentration: a handful of dominant RaaS operations controlling most of the damage, and a shrinking pool of active groups fighting over
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 13, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Kai was founded on a simple and radical conviction: you cannot win a
Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still Toolkit aimed at stealing Telegram data and eavesdropping on victims.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 12, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Cybercrime Magazine Podcast Host Scott Schober recently interviewed Du
Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026: LiteLLM Hack Impacts Thousands of Global Enterprises – Claim Your Ethical Disclosure Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026: LiteLLM Hack... The post Larg
Organizations operating in Germany and across Europe increasingly need to demonstrate cloud security compliance under the Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5:2020), published by Germany’
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploite
A convincing fake CCleaner website delivers a multi-stage malware attack that installs a spyware extension inside Chrome.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from Jul
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include Windows privilege esca
Key Points Introduction Since early 2026, Check Point Research has tracked a wave of the Operation Dream Job campaign. This wave primarily targeted the defense sector worldwide, with a parti
Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A compro
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce its successful completion of the 2025-26 NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment audit and achieving a status of Standards Excee
When I give talks about AI genies , I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened . The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. A
NIST is seeking public input to modernize the National Vulnerability Database to keep pace with AI-driven cyber threats and machine-scale security data. The post NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerabili
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 11, 2026 – Watch Cybercrime TV The Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel aka Cybercrime TV was born
Kaspersky experts have discovered malicious TrueConf software installers. The Head Mare APT group uses them to deliver the PhantomCore and PhantomGraph backdoors to target systems by exploiting vulner
