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
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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
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
5 ways your firewall can keep ransomware out — and lock it down if it gets in
Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: Firewall, Ransomware
Human-in-the-loop security will define 2026: Predictions from Sophos experts
Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: Sophos, Year in Review
Year in Review 2025: The major headlines and moments from Sophos this year
Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: Year in Review, security news
The State of Ransomware in Enterprise 2025
Categories: Products & Services Tags: Ransomware, Enterprise, Solutions, The State of Ransomware
Laughter in the dark: Tales of absurdity from the cyber frontline and what they taught us
From a quintuple-encryption ransomware attack to zany dark web schemes and AI fails, Sophos X-Ops looks back at some of our favorite weirdest incidents from the last few years – and the serious lessons behind them Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, Hive, Lockbit, BlackCat, LLM, AI, Money Laundering
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…
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…