The Firewall Pulse Adversary Desk is the part of the Firewall Pulse newsroom that covers attacks, malware, scams and the groups behind them. It is a newsroom desk, not a single person. Sections: Cyber Attacks, Malware & Ransomware, Threat Intelligence. Stories start from more than 150 monitored sources. Drafts are prepared with AI assistance and checked by software against the cited sources before they are published. It has published 4 articles so far. See the editorial policy or report an error.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centres caused a near-total collapse in Russian disinformation bot activity, according to Tom's Hardware.
Hackread and BleepingComputer report that cheap Android smartphones ship with pre-installed firmware malware enabling ad fraud and proxy abuse before users power on.
Attackers hijacked three country-code domains to trick certificate authorities into issuing valid HTTPS certificates for Google properties, bypassing standard validation checks.
Law enforcement authorities have detained a suspected member of the ShinyHunters cybercrime group, marking a significant disruption to the threat actor's operations.