5 ways your firewall can keep ransomware out — and lock it down if it gets in
Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: Firewall, Ransomware
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I am not a robot: ClickFix used to deploy StealC and Qilin
The fake human verification process led to infostealer and ransomware infections Categories: Threat Research Tags: clickfix, Featured, GOLD FEATHER, human verification, infostealer, qilin, Ransomware, StealC
Game of clones: Sophos and The MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise 2025 Evaluations
Winter is coming – so it must be time for Sophos X-Ops’ report on this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations Categories: Threat Research Tags: ATT&CK, Emulation, Featured, MITRE, MUSTANG PANDA, scattered spider, Sophos X-Ops
React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) exploited for remote code execution
The availability of exploit code will likely lead to more widespread opportunistic attacks Tags: Threat Research, Featured, vulnerability, react2shell
A big finish to 2025 in December’s Patch Tuesday
A month with no Critical-severity Windows bugs is overshadowed by a mass of Mariner mop-up Categories: X-ops Tags: threat research, featured, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, zero days
Strange ‘Little Red Dots’ in Space Have a Mind-Boggling Explanation, Scientists Discover
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Astronomers think they have solved the puzzle of so-called “little red dots” in space, a population of bizarre objects at the very edge of the observable universe, according to a study…
How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis. “The state apparatus, of course, has cameras everywhere,” Benson told 404 Media. “The citizens will also benefit from having the…
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media. The nightmare situation happened in September in Columbine Valley, Colorado…
Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
We start this week with Joseph’s article about Webloc, a tool ICE bought that can monitor phones in entire neighborhoods. After the break, Emanuel and Sam talk about their recent coverage of Grok. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains how police inadvertently unmasked millions of their surveillance targets through a Flock redaction error. Listen to…
Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
AI generated influencers are sharing fake images on Instagram that appear to show them having sex with celebrities like LeBron James, iShowSpeed, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. One AI influencer even shared an image of her in bed with Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. The images are AI generated but are not disclosed as such, and…