The Guardian reports that the UK government has announced plans to ban public sector organizationsāincluding the NHS, local councils, and schoolsāfrom paying ransomware demands. Under these proposals: Policy Shift: Bold Intent, Real-World Challenges On its face, the policy is a strong move to disrupt ransomwareās criminal profitability. However, it also underscores a longstanding debate in
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A newly uncovered malware campaign in Turkey is raising alarms across the cybersecurity community. SoupDealer, a sophisticated Java-based loader, has been deployed in targeted attacks that bypassed every public sandbox, antivirus engine, and enterprise EDR/XDR tested against it. As reported by Cyber Security News, SoupDealer uses selective targetingāactivating only when specific system language, location, and
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Introduction: DNS ā The Backbone of the Internet Every time you visit a website, stream a video, or send an email, the Domain Name System (DNS) is quietly at work behind the scenes. Often described as the “phonebook of the internet,” DNS translates human-friendly domain names like example.com into machine-readable IP addresses. However, despite its
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In July 2025, the U.S. government publicly attributed a series of stealthy cyber operations to Salt Typhoon, a threat actor linked to the Peopleās Republic of China. According to CyberScoop, the groupāalso known as APT40āhas been quietly targeting government agencies, critical infrastructure, and private enterprises through living-off-the-land techniques that evade traditional defenses. This announcement isnāt
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