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What is cybersquatting? How to spot it and protect your site
What is cybersquatting, and why does it matter? The practice involves registering a domain that copies or closely mimics a real brand or name, usually to cash in on someone else’s work. It can lead to confused site visitors, brand damage, or even scams designed to steal user data. In this guide, we’ll break down what cybersquatting is and when…
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Interlock adds Kettering Health to its ransomware data leak site – 941 GB allegedly stolen
This morning, ransomware gang Interlock has posted Kettering Health to its data leak site. It alleges to have stolen 941 GB of data, which includes 732,490 files across 20,418 folders and appears to contain ID cards, payment data, financial reports, and more. Kettering Health suffered a ransomware attack on May 20, 2025. The attack caused a system-wide outage affecting its…
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Police takes down AVCheck site used by cybercriminals to scan malware
An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. The service’s official domain at avcheck.net now displays a seizure banner with the crests of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Dutch…
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Digital Citizen has a new site motto
When we launched Digital Citizen on October 15, 2015, we used a rather generic motto: “Digital Citizen – Life in a digital world!” Many readers overlooked it, as it appeared only in the title bar of their web browser or in Google search results, when looking for how-to content online. Looking back, it wasn’t the best choice; this motto did…
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iClicker site hack targeted students with malware via fake CAPTCHA
The website of iClicker, a popular student engagement platform, was compromised in a ClickFix attack that used a fake CAPTCHA prompt to trick students and instructors into installing malware on their devices. iClicker is a subsidiary of Macmillan and is a digital classroom tool that allows instructors to take attendance, ask live questions or surveys, and track student engagement. It…
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Everest ransomware’s dark web leak site defaced, now offline
The dark web leak site of the Everest ransomware gang has apparently been hacked over the weekend by an unknown attacker and is now offline. The unknown attacker replaced the website’s contents with the following sarcastic message: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague.” The Everest operation has since taken down its leak site, which no longer loads…
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Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns
The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by authoritarian governments. The decision was announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal genomics data is subject to abuse today and…
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This Site Gives Your Bluesky Profile a MySpace Makeover
Do you remember a time when the internet was a more chaotically personal place? When the experience of using social media wasn’t so uniform? SkySpace seeks to recapture those days. The site transforms your Bluesky profile into a Myspace-esque page, complete with backgrounds, music, and a section for your top eight friends. I kind of love it. “I miss when…
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Mattel accidentally linked a porn site on Wicked doll packaging
Barbie producer Mattel has issued an apology after customers spotted its Wicked edition dolls listed an adult website on the packaging. The toy merchandise mistakenly directed customers to the homepage of the Wicked Pictures pornographic movie studio, instead of the correct WickedMovie.com URL. “We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this,” Mattel said in…
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Cisco says DevHub site leak won’t enable future breaches
Cisco says that non-public files recently downloaded by a threat actor from a misconfigured public-facing DevHub portal don’t contain information that could be exploited in future breaches of the company’s systems. While analyzing the exposed documents, the company found that their contents include data that Cisco publishes for customers and other DevHub users. However, files that shouldn’t have been made…
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