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STAR WARS isn’t just one of the ore successful and iconic movies of all time and the basis for a worldwide sci-fi empire, it’s also a true hacker story. Wade Baker and Rich Mogull, two Star Wars scholars, join Dennis Fisher to break down the Empire’s pathetic perimeter defenses, R2D2’s arc as a wily hacker, […]
UNC3886 is a Chinese espionage group known for targeting defense, tech, and telecom organizations across both the U.S. and Asia-Pacific-Japan regions.
The SystemBC botnet malware has become a critical component in the modern threat landscape, often preceding a full-scale ransomware deployment.
The series of incidents detailed by Mandiant researchers started in early to mid-January, and included a previously disclosed campaign involving Okta customers.
It was a busy week in the cybers! Today we start with the targeted exploitation of another Fortinet vulnerability (CVE-2026-24858) that enables simple authentication bypass (1:15), then we discuss Google’s disruption of a large residential proxy network called IPIDEA that has been abused by hundreds of threat actors (5:40), then we talk about the continued attacks on an older WinRAR […]
Google researchers observed more than 550 individual threat groups using IPIDEA exit nodes during a one-week period earlier this month.
