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- Happiest Place on Earth? On October 7,
2025, UC Irvine researchers published a report about the Mic-E-Mouse attack
in which high-DPI optical sensors in computer mice can detect desk
vibrations and reconstruct speech.
- Deepfakes Outpace Defense. On October
7, 2025, OpenAI published a report indicating that businesses
remain poised to defend against deepfakes, despite poor investment
to defend against them.
- Sharing is Caring. On October 9, 2025, Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, a proposed replacement to the expired Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act of 2015, which provides liability protections for organizations that share cyber threat data with each other and the federal government.
- Ransomware Payments Drop. On October 27, 2025, Coveware reported that ransomware payment rates dropped to a historical low of 23% in Q3 2025 and the average ransom payment in Q3 2025 was roughly $377,000, a 66% decrease from the previous quarter.
- Heed CISA's and NSA's Exchange on Exchange. On October 30, 2025, CISA and NSA released guidance to help IT personnel harden Microsoft Exchange servers to help prevent against attacks.
AS THE WORLD TURNS
- Bitcoin Fixer Involved in His Last Fix. On
October 1, 2025, a Malaysian national pleaded guilty for his role in an investment
fraud scam that converted stolen assets into cryptocurrency.
- Encore. On October 3, 2025,
the recently shuttered Scattered Lapsus$ ransomware group made an
unexpected appearance threatening to publish the stolen
data from Salesforce customers.
- Three's Company. On October 8,
2025, LockBit, Qilin, and DragonForce joined forces to form a three-gang cartel and
invited other threat actors to join and collaborate with
them.
- BPH Keeps 'Em Safe. On October 15, 2025, security researches profiled Qilin's use of bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers that enables Qilin to host content with minimal oversight, in pro-secrecy jurisdictions, and structured across complex webs of anonymous and geographically distributed shell companies, to allow Qilin to evade abuse complaints and even law enforcement intervention.
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