Security News

Alleged Israeli LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Extradited to U.S. for Cybercrime Charges
2025-03-14 15:07

A 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national who is alleged to be a developer of the LockBit ransomware group has been extradited to the United States, nearly three months after he was formally...

Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer's systems
2025-03-08 17:43

A software developer has been found guilty of sabotaging his ex-employer's systems by running custom malware and installing a "kill switch" after being demoted at the company. [...]

Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go
2025-03-08 01:09

IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his...

Lazarus hacked Bybit via breached Safe{Wallet} developer machine
2025-02-26 16:58

​Forensic investigators have found that North Korean Lazarus hackers stole $1.5 billion from Bybit after hacking a developer's device at the multisig wallet platform Safe{Wallet}. [...]

North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware
2025-02-20 13:37

Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families known as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret....

Lazarus Group Deploys Marstech1 JavaScript Implant in Targeted Developer Attacks
2025-02-14 18:28

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a previously undocumented JavaScript implant named Marstech1 as part of limited targeted attacks against developers. The...

North Korea targets crypto developers via NPM supply chain attack
2025-02-13 12:00

Yet another cash grab from Kim's cronies and an intel update from Microsoft North Korea has changed tack: its latest campaign targets the NPM registry and owners of Exodus and Atomic...

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024
2025-01-31 10:45

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that...

Lazarus Group Targets Web3 Developers with Fake LinkedIn Profiles in Operation 99
2025-01-15 15:37

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new cyber attack campaign dubbed Operation 99 that targeted software developers looking for freelance Web3 and cryptocurrency work to...

Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills
2025-01-13 04:00

Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, of course, given the...