Author: HackWatchit

The UK’s digital landscape underwent its most significant transformation yet on Friday, July 25, 2025. The Online Safety Act 2023, seven years in the making, is now being fully enforced by Ofcom (the UK’s communications regulator). These new rules fundamentally change how British citizens access and interact with online content, with the primary goal of protecting children from harmful material. What Is the Online Safety Act? The Online Safety Act is comprehensive legislation designed to make the UK “the safest place in the world to be online.” The law places legal responsibilities on social media companies, search engines, and other…

An airline leaving all of its passengers’ travel records vulnerable to hackers would make an attractive target for espionage. Less obvious, but perhaps even more useful for those spies, would be access to a premium travel service that spans 10 different airlines, left its own detailed flight information accessible to data thieves, and seems to be favored by international diplomats.That’s what one team of cybersecurity researchers found in the form of Airportr, a UK-based luggage service that partners with airlines to let its largely UK- and Europe-based users pay to have their bags picked up, checked, and delivered to their…

Law enforcement operations seized BlackSuit ransomware gang’s darknet sites Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2025 An international law enforcement operation seized the dark web data leak site of the BlackSuit ransomware group. A banner on the BlackSuit ransomware group’s TOR data leak sites informs visitors that they were seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in a global law enforcement operation. The notice features logos of 17 law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firm Bitdefender. The BlackSuit ransomware operation has been active since April 2023. Unlike other RaaS operations, the gang did not manage a network of affiliates. BlackSuit is believed to be…

or vision-language models is a powerful technique that unlocks their potential on specialized tasks. However, despite their effectiveness, these approaches are often out of reach for many users due to their high computational cost and the need for GPUs with large VRAM — resources that only a small percentage of end users can access. In this project, I fine-tuned IBM’s Granite-Vision 2B, a relatively small yet powerful vision-language model, to tackle the challenge of converting images of tables into clean, structured HTML code. What makes this project particularly exciting is that the fine-tuning was performed on a consumer-grade GPU — the…

Article written by cybersecurity expert Yuriy Tsibere. Gone are the days when cybersecurity meant stopping annoying viruses like the Love Bug. Today, it’s about battling a massive, financially motivated cybercrime industry. Attacks are smarter, faster, and more damaging—and that changes everything for product teams. For product managers (PMs), this means understanding that attackers are constantly exploiting the same weak spots: stolen admin credentials, missing multi-factor authentication (MFA) on VPNs, remote encryption, and clever “living off the land” (LOTL) tricks like using Office to launch PowerShell. Even something as simple as an unpatched firewall or a rogue USB drive can open…

Chennai, India, 25th July 2025, CyberNewsWire The post xonPlus Launches Real-Time Breach Alerting Platform for Enterprise Credential Exposure appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed support for stablecoin businesses that operate within the bounds of the country’s digital asset regulations.During the Nigeria Stablecoin Summit held in Lagos, SEC Director-General Emomotimi Agama reportedly said the African country is ready to embrace blockchain-based payment innovations as long as they comply with existing laws.He highlighted the growing relevance of stablecoins in Africa’s digital economy, where volatile local currencies have pushed many toward dollar-backed assets for stability.Agama described Nigeria’s digital landscape as “dynamic, young, and increasingly decentralized,” pointing to how stablecoins are becoming integral to daily transactions.Considering this, the financial regulatory…

In this Help Net Security interview, Aleksandar Stančin, Board Member Adriatics, Exclusive Networks, discusses the state of cybersecurity in the Adriatic region. He talks about how local markets often lag behind EU regulations, despite facing threats comparable to those in other parts of Europe. While adoption may be slower, progress is underway to strengthen cybersecurity across industries. Since your role focuses on the Adriatic region, what unique security challenges do you see compared to other parts of Europe? Traditionally, our local markets are lagging behind global trends and security concepts, especially those outside of the EU regulation zone (e.g. NIS2,…

As Congress weighs a bill that could designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, a newly released research paper sheds light on a history that’s long been misunderstood, underexplored, or outright denied. Dr. Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, has published The Muslim Brotherhood in America: A Brief History, an account of how the oldest and most influential Islamist movement established a foothold in the United States, decades before it became a subject of political controversy. The timing of the study is notable. The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, a bipartisan…