Ethan Brooks is a Senior cybersecurity journalist passionate about threat intelligence and data privacy. His work highlights cyber attacks, hacking, security culture, and cybercrime with The Cyber News.
The U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),coordination with international law enforcement agencies, has successfully dismantled the critical infrastructure of BlackSuit ransomware, marking a significant victory against one of the world's most dangerous cybercriminal operations.
The coordinated takedown, dubbed Operation Checkmate,...
A technique dubbed "ECScape" that allows malicious containers running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to steal AWS credentials from other tasks sharing the same EC2 instance.
The attack exploits an undocumented internal protocol between the ECS agent and...
A revolutionary exploit discovered through custom firmware for the Flipper Zero device has exposed a critical vulnerability in the rolling code security systems protecting millions of modern vehicles worldwide.
This breakthrough attack method fundamentally undermines the cryptographic protections that...
GPT-5, marking a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence capabilities with a revolutionary unified system that dynamically selects the most appropriate model for each user query.
The new release represents a comprehensive overhaul of the ChatGPT experience, introducing multiple...
A sophisticated exploitation of the Retbleed vulnerability, showcasing how attackers can read arbitrary physical memory from sandboxed processes and virtual machines at unprecedented speeds.
This development represents a significant escalation in the real-world impact of speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Emergency Directive 25-02 on August 7, 2025, ordering federal agencies to immediately address a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange hybrid deployments.
The directive, responding to CVE-2025-53786, gives all Federal Civilian Executive...