Axios npm package compromised to deploy malware
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, NPM, Axios
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Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Why did this happen? That’s in dispute. At…
How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided underlying personal data for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. The…
The High Cost of Low Trust: Our Commitment to Radical Transparency
Only 5% of organizations fully trust their cybersecurity providers. Let’s do better. Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Trust Center, Privacy
The Cybersecurity Trust Reality in 2026
New Sophos survey reveals only 5% of IT leaders say they fully trust their cybersecurity vendors Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Privacy, Trust Center
Where AI in the SOC is actually delivering — and where it isn’t
“We’ll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can’t function without it.” Categories: AI Research, Sophos Insights Tags: AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI RESEARCH, Generative AI, SOC
Incident responders, s’il vous plait: Invites lead to odd malware events
A phishing campaign targeting multiple organizations led to RMM installations – but not much else (yet). A threat actor experimenting, or an access-as-a-service attack underway? Categories: Threat Research Tags: STAC6405, infostealer, RMM, Phishing
‘You Can’t Defeat the Robots!’: Baseball’s AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s Twins-Orioles game, Twins cleanup hitter Matt Wallner watched a knee-high 3-2 pitch sail directly over the heart of the plate for strike three. Rather than accept his fate, an emotional, frustrated Wallner tapped his helmet, signaling that he was…
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “What I know is that I wrote those articles. Long Bets, Constitutional AI, Scalable Oversight. I chose them. The edits cited verifiable sources. And then…
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones (with Dhruv Mehrotra)
This week Joseph talks to Dhruv Mehrotra, a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg. Before that, Dhruv was at WIRED, where you probably saw a ton of his interesting work. Dhruv sits in a very unusual space in journalism: he is able to both write technical tools to dig through data, or collect information, or really…