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Moltbook is Dangerous, but Scale Doesn’t Match the Hype: Zenity
Zenity security researchers ran a controlled influence campaign to see how active AI agents are on the much-hyped Moltbook and whether they could be manipulated through the platform's functions. What they found ...
Security Is Shifting From Prevention to Resilience
Dan Cole, senior vice president of product management at Sophos, unpacks how cybersecurity strategy is shifting from a prevention-first mindset toward resilience and response. Cole traces his career from the early days ...
Sophos Sheds 6% of Employees After Closing Secureworks Deal
Cybersecurity firm Sophos closed its $859 million acquisition of Secureworks earlier this month and soon after cut 6% of the combined company's workforce, with many of job losses related to either overlapping ...
Sophos Acquires Dell’s Secureworks for $859 Million
British security provider Sophos plans to acquire Dell subsidiary Secureworks in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $859 million. The deal, announced in a joint release on Monday, will grant Sophos control ...
Cheap ‘Junk-Gun Ransomware’ Emerging on the Dark Web
While inexpensive and crudely built, the ransomware variants still post a threat to smaller companies and individuals, Sophos says ...
Sophos: Backups are in Ransomware Groups’ Crosshairs
Enterprises that ignore their data backups, in contemplating ransomware, do so at their own peril, according to cybersecurity firm Sophos. Protecting backups will significantly reduce the harm to a company hit by ...
Beyond Detection: Enhancing Your Security Posture with Predictive Cyberthreat Insights
The goal of cybersecurity is not just to respond to today’s threats but to anticipate tomorrow’s challenges. I recently had an enlightening conversation with Christopher Budd, Director of Sophos X-Ops Intelligence, to ...
‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers Now Using AI Chatbots to Lure Victims
The rapidly evolving “pig butchering” ecosystem is adding another – and unsurprising – tool to its malicious arsenal: generative AI. Operators behind what cybersecurity firm Sophos dubs “CryptoRom” scams are now using ...
Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches ...
