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Hex Advent CTF WELCOME TO HEX ADVENT 2025, ‘tis the season to Unwrap Your Potential! 🎁 HEX ADVENT 2025 is a Christmas-themed CTF Advent Calendar, designed for women, by women. 12 Days, 12 Challenges: A structured schedule to build mastery across different CTF categories. Focus Areas - Pwn Binary...

Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women...

Keep Your Tech FLAME Alive: Trailblazer Suzanne Wheeler

In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Suzanne Wheeler describes her journey into cybersecurity and gives advice to women who are finding their own path...

Keep Your Tech FLAME Alive: Trailblazer Katrina Cole

Meet Katrina Cole, an Information Security Consultant who entered tech at age 40. Read her advice for women in tech and her proactive approach to security...

Feds Seize CFAKE and SOCFAKE Over Explicit Deepfakes of Famous Women

Both CFAKE and SOCFAKE CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com were seized after prosecutors said they hosted nonconsensual nude digital forgeries of famous women...

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse...

This one’s for you, Mom

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I am the product of a single parent, my mom, who along with my grandparents helped raise me into the man I am today. I cannot fathom what it took for my mom, who worked three jobs to put herself through college to be a teacher, to...

Women’s History Month: Encouraging women in cybersecurity at every career stage

Women’s History Month—and International Women’s Day on March 8, 2026—always gives me pause for reflection. It’s a moment to think about how far we’ve come and think about who we choose to uplift as we look ahead. Throughout my career, I’ve been inspired by extraordinary women leaders—trailblazers...

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks

The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters SLH has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. T...

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KOG Bonds POC Agent Complete proof-of-concept demonstrating e...

Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous

Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology...

CVE-2025-53065

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft component: PIA Core Technology. Supported versions that are affected are 8.60, 8.61 and 8.62. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft...

EUVD-2014-6918

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Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher spotlights and enhanced incentives

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time when the developer community reflect on the importance of security in the evolving digital landscape. At GitHub, we understand that protecting the global software ecosystem relies on the commitment, skill, and ingenuity of the security research...

Malicious code in test-mlw2-pewit-women (npm)

The package test-mlw2-pewit-women was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-35967 Malicious code in test-mlw2-pewit-women (npm)

The package test-mlw2-pewit-women was found to contain malicious code...

Tea Dating Advice app has users’ private messages disclosed

A few days after Tea Dating Advice discovered unauthorized access to one of its systems that leaked 72,000 user images, the popular mobile app faced a second issue involving a separate database, as a researcher reported to 404Media that they were able to access private conversations. Tea Dating...

Tea App Breach: Women Only Dating Platform Leaks 72K User Images

The "Tea" app, a new and popular social platform for women, confirmed a major data breach affecting users…...

GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex trafficking

Michael James Pratt, the owner of pornographic websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in a US court. Pratt ran the websites, which lured and coerced young women into filming pornographic videos, from 2013 to 2019. Pratt and his accomplices lured women from...

Deepfake-posting man faces huge $450,000 fine

A man is facing a $450,000 AU fine after he published deepfake images of prominent Australian women on the now-defunct MrDeepfakes web site. That's if Australia's online safety regulator gets its way. Anthony Rotondo faces charges of posting these and other explicit deepfake images to the...