Author: HackWatchit

The Fog Ransomware gang, which has been making headlines over the past week due to its increasingly audacious demands, is now requesting a staggering $1 trillion from its victims. However, this isn’t a straightforward ransom demand like we typically see from cybercriminals. Instead, the hackers seem to be pulling inspiration from an unexpected source—Elon Musk and his ambitious Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. To fully grasp the bizarre connection between this demand and the world’s richest entrepreneur, we need to look back a little. The intrigue begins in March 2025 when DOGE, under Musk’s leadership, sent out an unusual…

“Stop, look, and listen” is the standard advice we should allow follow when crossing the road – but pedestrians in some parts are finding that they cannot believe their ears – after a hacker compromised crosswalks to play deepfake audio mocking tech bosses Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos.The fake voices of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, are being played from hacked crossings to the surprise of pedestrians in a number of US cities.Whoever was responsible for the hacked pedestrian crossing systems has, perhaps sensibly, not identified themselves.Last year, however, a…

Today, CrowdStrike is releasing automated baseline enforcement and remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon® for IT to secure misconfigured devices and consistently address vulnerabilities across endpoints. Operators can now centrally manage and enforce endpoint configurations across platforms to support security and compliance efforts. Security and IT teams must ensure endpoints are secure and compliant according to established baseline configurations, even as users install or remove apps, delay updates, or change settings. In addition, these teams must identify and quickly remediate security vulnerabilities for all devices. Resolving these issues requires deep endpoint visibility and coordinated response actions, which have long been siloed between…

Backdoors & Breaches kind of took off. In case you don’t know, Backdoors & Breaches is an Incident Response Card Game to help people better understand the various attacks and defenses used in security today. We have sold out twice on Amazon, given out thousands of copies for free at conferences, and sent 2,000+ free decks to infosec educators (with a few thousand more decks to go). As a standalone game, with an Incident Master driving the narrative, it works really well. However, we have something else that we have been working on… Competitive Backdoors & Breaches. Yes, you can play this game…

Thales, a global technology and security provider, announced on Tuesday an alliance with Deloitte to deliver advanced, tailored cybersecurity services and solutions to organizations. The move will combine Thales’s encryption and key management capabilities with Deloitte’s advanced cybersecurity services. It will focus on delivering enhanced data protection, governance, and compliance capabilities, and offering extensive experience in cybersecurity to help customers mitigate risk. The alliance will combine Thales’s advanced encryption and key management technologies with Deloitte’s data protection, security consulting, and implementation knowledge. The collaboration provides organizations with a broad suite of services and solutions designed to help clients address the…

If your iPhone feels cramped and storage alerts show up like it’s on a schedule, it’s probably time for a cleanup. Below, we’ll go over easy ways to quickly free up space on iPhone – and talk a bit about storage management in general. These aren’t gimmicks; they’re time-tested methods and tricks that work for anyone, whether you’re rocking an older iPhone or the latest model. How to Check What’s Eating Up Space The first thing on the checklist is to figure out what’s taking up all that space. Before you start deleting stuff blindly, open up Settings on your…

As a kid, you may have played a game called “capture the flag,” where opposing teams try to sneak into each other’s territory and retrieve a colored flag in order to win. Capture the flag (CTF) exercise in cyber security operates along similar lines. Essentially, it is a cyber security challenge that tests participants’ ability to find security vulnerabilities in a test IT environment. So how do cyber capture the flag games work, and why are they such an effective way of training beginners in IT security?What Is Capture the Flag (CTF)?In cyber security, capture the flag (CTF) is a…

IRONSCALES announced deepfake protection for enterprise email security. The announcement comes as deepfake-driven social engineering attacks continue to gain momentum. From 2022 to 2023, the total volume of deepfake-driven cyberattacks levied against private enterprises grew by a staggering 1,000% globally and by over 1,740% in North America. While the right mix of training and policies can go a long way toward mitigating these threats, technological defensive solutions have lagged far behind. A recent study from IRONSCALES found that traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) fail to stop an average of 67.5 phishing attacks per 100 mailboxes every month. The combination of…

WhatsApp has introduced a new Advanced Chat Privacy feature to protect sensitive information exchanged in private chats and group conversations. The new privacy option can be enabled after tapping the chat name and is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export chat content. “Today we’re introducing our latest layer for privacy called ‘Advanced Chat Privacy.’ This new setting available in both chats and groups helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when you may want extra privacy,” WhatsApp said. “When the setting is on, you can block others from exporting chats, auto-downloading media to their…