Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Slides and other materials from the DEF CON 2025 security conference, which took place last week in Las Vegas, are available on the conference's website
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2033/?C=M&O=A
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Trend Micro researchers have spotted a new ransomware group called Charon.
Researchers say the ransomware was spotted in targeted attacks against the Middle East's public sector and aviation industry.
It also exhibits advanced APT-style techniques.
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/h/new-ransomware-charon.html
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Here's the 51 new ransomware groups that launched in the first half of the year
https://medium.com/s2wblog/ransomware-landscape-in-h1-2025-statistics-and-key-issues-9e8c1a6b4e2c
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
And here's the ones that shut down or disappeared
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Here's the 51 new ransomware groups that launched in the first half of the year
https://medium.com/s2wblog/ransomware-landscape-in-h1-2025-statistics-and-key-issues-9e8c1a6b4e2c
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
New L1TF Reloaded side-channel attack, a new version of L1TF, works against cloud providers
https://openreview.net/forum?id=4tDNvQe2G0
But not AWS, apparently: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ec2-defenses-against-l1tf-reloaded/
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Talks from the What Hackers Yearn 2025 security conference, which took place over the weekend in the Netherlands, are available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnOI9rJWBVjGeiOrzhanv1Hjp9Xlf-Sqy
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Some Russian software companies raised prices by up to nine times after Western companies left the Russian market
The Russian Duma now wants to remove their intellectual property rights if they abuse the market
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7956905
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
A suspected hack and leak from a Kimsuky APT server
PDF: https://data.ddosecrets.com/APT%20Down%20-%20The%20North%20Korea%20Files/phrack-apt-down-the-north-korea-files.pdf
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
CrediX DeFi platform vanishes after $4.5 million hack, deletes socials and takes website offline
https://www.theblock.co/post/366159/credix-team-vanishes-after-4-5-million-exploit-deletes-socials-and-takes-website-offline
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi@mastodon.social
Another report on that supposed Qilin ransomware exit scam
https://darkatlas.io/blog/qilin-ransomware-a-deep-dive-into-operations-opsec-breakdowns