Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison

A 34-year-old Armenian man has pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. companies and deploying the infamous Ryuk ransomware to encrypt their systems.
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows ...
Macworld

Apple to end support for encrypted Mac OS Extended drives–here’s what it means

Apple will end support for encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) drives with macOS 28 in 2027, requiring users to reformat or ...

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...

PSA: macOS 28 will drop support for encrypted Mac OS Extended volumes

Apple has announced that starting with macOS 28, users will need to decrypt or reformat certain storage volumes to keep using ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I gave my local LLM my Docker Compose files, and it found security holes I missed

Nothing broke, so I never looked.