Author: HackWatchit

Terry Gerton: As we sit here in 2025, Cybercom is almost 15 years old and it’s been consistently under a dual-hat command structure between Cybercom and the National Security Agency. You’ve been vocal about retaining that relationship. Can you articulate for us why you think that’s so important? Don Bacon: Well, first of all, I have the experience. I used to oversee cyber intel training for the Air Force. So I’ve gotten to see some of this up close and personal. And the bottom line is NSA is sort of the heart of what cyber does upfront. For cyberattack or…

The DOJ announced a far-reaching operation that aimed to knock out a substantial number of North Korean IT worker scams that have victimized more than 100 U.S. companies that unwittingly hired North Korean operatives as remote workers, who then stole data and money to support the Pyongyang regime. The post U.S. Target North Korean IT Worker Scams with Raids, Indictments appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Google has released a security update for Chrome to address a zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6554) that its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered and reported last week. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-6554 exists in the wild,” the company said. About CVE-2025-6554 CVE-2025-6554 is a type confusion vulnerability in V8, the JavaScript and WebAssembly engine at the heart of Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw by serving crafted HTML pages to targets. The pages may trigger the flaw and allow them to execute arbitrary read/write operations. In some cases, this could lead to full remote…

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF or XSRF) is an attack which is used to execute a transaction on behalf of a victim user against a vulnerable web application. To be vulnerable to CSRF, an attacker must be able to determine and submit all of the values necessary to execute the target transaction in advance. If this is possible, an attacker will use social engineering, craft a malicious URL, or post a malicious form on a third party site that will accept unfiltered HTML input. When the targeted user executes the attacker’s content, the transaction is executed on the target web application.…

French police have arrested a business student interning at the bank Société Générale who is accused of helping SIM-swapping scammers to defraud 50 of its clients.According to a report in Le Parisien, the intern is alleged to have helped fraudsters embezzle more than one million Euros from customers’ accounts by providing clients’ banking information to fraudsters.The unnamed intern, who is said to be a Master’s student at a business school, was working at the bank’s headquarters on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. According to reports, he exploited his position in Société Générale to share sensitive information with a network of accomplices…

A sophisticated cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2025 The International Criminal Court (ICC) is probing a sophisticated cyberattack that was discovered and contained last week. On June 30, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was hit by a sophisticated and targeted cyberattack. The organization confirmed that the incident was detected and contained by its defense systems. “Late last week, the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) detected a new, sophisticated and targeted cyber security incident, which has now been contained.” reads the ICC’s announcement. “This incident, the second of this type against…

Data from research suggests that the global cryptocurrency market will at least triple by 2030, increasing to an amount of nearly $5 billion. Once the holistic use of AI is fully incorporated into this infrastructure, data management, crypto-economics, and our money are poised to see significant growth and work smarter. Just when we think Bitcoin had a price of zero when it first debuted in 2009 and now has hit a valuation of $104602.03, we can state that the cryptocurrency market is increasingly optimistic, evolving from a niche concept to a driving force in today’s economy.  The likes of Bitcoin…

can’t think of a more important dataset. Just today, I saw a headline like this: ‘Heat Waves Are Getting More Dangerous with Climate Change.’ You can’t say we haven’t been warned. In 1988, we saw headlines like this: ‘Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate.’ And while data science has played its role in revealing that we will likely surpass the 1.5 °C target set by the Paris Agreement, there is far more we could be doing. For one, people don’t believe it, yet the data is readily available, free, and easy to access. You can check it yourself! So…

Joff Thyer // A network can authenticate a client workstation using the 802.1X and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) using multiple different methods.  EAP is used both in a wired network context as well as a wireless network context.   It is fairly common for EAP-PEAP to be used for most authentication in enterprise networks, although EAP-TLS can be used also. EAP-PEAP (EAP-PEAPv0) is the most common form of EAP in use whereby MSCHAPv2 encoded credentials are protected inside of a TLS tunnel.   The TLS tunnel is established using a server presented certificate delivered using RADIUS protocol to the authenticator (switch or…