Bite Sized Cyber Crime

PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities were recently announced that made site owners and managers sweat, two critical risk vulnerabilities that can only be patched on version 8 of PHP leave many site managers exposed.

Refrigerators are so common in grocery stores and our own homes, and we are used to the occasional power outage resulting in food spoilage, but sometimes something much more targeted occurs. And we don't even know why. Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/investigators-hunt-french-supermarket-fridge-hackers-no-claim-responsibility-2026-10-13/ (pastebin down)

A ransomware recovery firm claimed to have proprietary technology that could decrypt ransomware actor encryption algorithms, which seems too good to be true. As it so turns out, Monster Cloud was paying off the very threat actors that they claimed to be working against. Sources: https://pastebin.com/2Qq9tS4Z

Members of Killsec ransomware group were arrested across multiple countries, and the one in charge of it all may have been just 16 years old. Sources: https://pastebin.com/xU2UkHtN

Sort of. A novel attack against RSA algorithms that forges keys rather than finds the prime factors could be a cause for concern, especially with AI enhanced computing capabilities, before we've even hit the quantum era. Sources: https://pastebin.com/3MhFgcc3