Phishing gateways and signature-based email filters — the tools most companies have relied on for years — are increasingly failing to catch the attacks that matter most. Security researchers point to a clear shift: instead of obviously malicious attachments or links, attackers are now leaning on tru...

If May felt bad, June didn't ease up. ShinyHunters kept up its extortion spree across half a dozen industries, a single supply-chain hack managed to drag half the cybersecurity world into the same breach, and a pharmaceutical giant lost its actual drug formulas. Here's a rundown of the month's most...

Check Point researchers found something odd sitting on VirusTotal since January — malware that pulls off a full ransomware attack from inside the browser itself. No download, no exploit, no admin rights needed. It was disguised as a Discord avatar upscaler, which is how it likely got past a few unsu...

Check Point's new FIFA World Cup 2026 Cyber Threat Report shows scammers had their infrastructure built and staged months before the tournament opened on June 11. More than a third of official FIFA partners lack the email authentication needed to stop attackers from spoofing their domains, leaving t...

In April 2026, police in China's Hubei province started fining ordinary citizens for using a VPN — not companies, not dissidents, just regular people. One person was fined 200 yuan (about $29) for accessing TikTok and X through a VPN. Another was fined 500 yuan for "illegally registering and using V...

The State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on UNC5792 and UNC4221, two Russia-linked hacking groups accused of breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to U.S. officials, military leadership, and allied personnel. The reward comes through the Rewards for Justice p...