Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here’s what we’re doing about it, and what you can look out for.
Enterprise software was a major focus of zero-day activity during 2025, with security and networking devices, like firewalls, VPNs, and virtualization platforms among the most targeted by malicious hackers.
An APT41 spinoff is spying on targets across Europe and Asia using a blend of custom and legitimate tools.
TrustConnect is back, this time used to deploy legitimate but weaponized RMM solutions.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back at the negotiating table with the Department of Defense in an attempt to salvage the company’s relationship with the US military and prevent it from being iced out of defense work for being a “supply chain risk.” Talks between the two parties imploded on Friday after weeks of […]
The website was taken offline, and potential members arrested.
Tycoon 2FA is no more thanks to a major law enforcement operation.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Google plans to defend HTTPS certificates against quantum attacks using compact verification methods that preserve browser performance and system compatibility.
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Authorities say LeakBase was “one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals,” and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords.