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Stealthy Linux rootkit hides inside F5 BIG-IP devices and runs entirely from memory
Researchers say the implant, tracked by ESET as PoisonedRefresh, hooks Apache to slip a hidden web shell into legitimate PHP files without ever touching disk.
AI Isn't Bringing New Attack Tricks. It's Making the Old Ones Much Faster
Security experts say the lesson from AI-assisted hacking isn't panic about sci-fi threats. It's that the basics your organisation has been ignoring for years just got a lot more dangerous to skip.
Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams are ending in ransomware within a day
A gang tracked as STAC4749 is phoning staff on Teams, pretending to be helpdesk, and locking company files with Chaos ransomware in under 17 hours.
Fake Emails Now Beat Software Flaws as the Number-One Way Ransomware Gets In
A Sophos survey of more than 2,000 organisations hit by ransomware finds that phishing and malicious emails now cause half of all attacks, while stolen passwords are defeating even multi-factor authentication at an alarming rate.
When your AI coder looks exactly like a hacker to the security software
Sophos found that popular AI coding assistants keep tripping the same alarms designed to spot break-ins, and the false alerts are piling up.