Author: HackWatchit
Hacktivism has evolved from grassroots digital protests to sophisticated, state-sponsored cyber operations. Check Point Research analyzed 20,000 messages from 35 hacktivist accounts using machine learning and linguistic analysis to reveal hidden connections and operational patterns. The research highlights how geopolitical events drive hacktivist activities, with groups resurfacing during crises to conduct targeted attacks. Stylometric analysis revealed clusters of hacktivist groups with overlapping linguistic fingerprints, indicating shared operators. For example, Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, Solntsepek, and XakNet form one such cluster. Understanding these operations helps improve cyber threat attribution, providing valuable insights into the evolving hacktivism landscape. Hacktivism has undergone…
Yes, giving your PC a good, old-fashioned cleaning can improve its performance. And it only takes minutes. For the most part, PCs don’t slow down on their own over time. It’s the way we amass apps, files, and services that slows things down as your PC ages. A few examples come to mind: We create files, which take up increasing amounts of disk space. Windows creates temporary files, hidden files, and others that can be deleted. We accumulate apps, plenty of which we don’t need or use anymore. Windows further accumulates background services and other processes that reduce performance. So,…
San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 3, 2025, CyberNewswire — With the growing importance of security compliance for startups, more companies are seeking to achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 & GDPR. Bubba AI, Inc. is building a comprehensive solution for these organizations to easily integrate compliance workflows and build their own customized processes through an open-source alternative to existing GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) automation platforms. The company is positioning itself to address the compliance needs of organizations ranging from early-stage startups to established enterprises. Bubba AI’s flagship product, Comp AI, offers a built-in risk register,…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has officially closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club and CyberPunks NFT collections.The regulator does not intend to take any further enforcement actions and did not issue any charges against the firm. In a social media post on March 3, Yuga Labs said the closure was a win for creators and NFTs.It stated:“After 3+ years, the SEC has officially closed its investigation into Yuga Labs. This is a huge win for NFTs and all creators pushing our ecosystem forward. NFTs are not securities.”Yuga Labs probeThe SEC had…
In September 2024, OpenAI released its o1 model, trained on large-scale reinforcement learning, giving it “advanced reasoning” capabilities. Unfortunately, the details of how they pulled this off were never shared publicly. Today, however, DeepSeek (an AI research lab) has replicated this reasoning behavior and published the full technical details of their approach. In this article, I will discuss the key ideas behind this innovation and describe how they work under the hood. OpenAI’s o1 model marked a new paradigm for training large language models (LLMs). It introduced so-called “thinking” tokens, which enable a sort of scratch pad that the model can use…
President Trump announced February 21 that retired United States Air Force Lt. Gen. John Dan Caine, known for his call sign “Razin’,” will be his pick for the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The announcement came in the same social media post where Trump fired the current chairman, U.S. Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who had served in the position for 16 months out of a four-year term. The move is part of a broader effort by Trump and Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reshape military leadership. The Administration has stated it wants to…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says that media reports about it being directed to no longer follow or report on Russian cyber activity are untrue, and its mission remains unchanged. “CISA’s mission is to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia,” the US cyber agency posted to X. “There has been no change in our posture. Any reporting to the contrary is fake and undermines our national security.” This comes after The Guardian reported on Saturday that the Trump administration no longer sees Russia as a cyber threat against US critical infrastructure and its interests.…
For years, the United States has joined with much of the rest of the world, in declaring that Russia poses a significant cyber threat – hosting cybercriminal gangs and state-sponsored hackers who present a danger to national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations.But, in a radical departure from longstanding assessments by national intelligence agencies, Donald Trump’s administration has now indicated that it no longer views Russian hackers as a threat – and has ordered US Cyber Command and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to no longer follow or report on Russian threats, despite them previously being their main…
U.S. CISA adds Multiple Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers, Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server, Microsoft Windows Win32k, and Progress WhatsUp Gold flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers, Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server, Microsoft Windows Win32k, and Progress WhatsUp Gold flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2023-20118 Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2022-43939 Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Authorization Bypass Vulnerability…