Challenges Remain in Evaluating Ransomware Crackdowns
While law enforcement disruptions certainly have a positive impact, there are deep-rooted difficulties in measuring substantial long-term changes.
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Microsoft Finds Secret Blizzard Targeting Foreign Diplomats
Microsoft has uncovered a long-running campaign by a threat group affiliated with Russian intelligence that has targeted diplomats working in Russia with a custom tool called ApolloShadow that enables the group to maintain persistence on victims’ devices as part of a cyberespionage operation. The group is known as Secret Blizzard and Microsoft’s researchers found that […]
Chinese Attackers Target SharePoint CVE-2025-53770
Three separate Chinese threat groups are exploiting a set of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint installations, and Microsoft and CISA are urging companies that haven’t yet updated their installations to do so as quickly as possible. Microsoft first published information about the two flaws (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) on July 19 after seeing active […]
‘Nothing’s Going to Last Forever’: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 4
As the 1990s drew to a close, the curtain was coming down on the L0pht, as well. Security companies were helping to fuel the first dot-com boom, and venture capitalists and investors took the place of the law enforcement agencies that once circled the group. The L0pht members considered their options: continue as an independent […]
Thirty Minutes Or Less: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 3
By the beginning of 1998, the national media had decided that cybersecurity was something worth paying attention to and the members of the L0pht were ready and willing to help explain the issues and weaknesses that all of this new technology brought with it. Pieces in The Washington Post, Wired, and many other outlets raised […]
‘Microsoft Was Freaking Out’: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 2
As the L0pht began to coalesce and become more well-known in the security community, the dynamics of the group evolved, too. The loft space in Boston’s South End became a hangout and meeting spot for local hackers, and as some of the members flourished, others began to pull back from the group. At the same […]