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In a rare but significant victory for the cybersecurity community, a free decryptor has been released for the notorious FunkSec ransomware. This tool now enables affected organizations to recover their encrypted data without paying ransom, marking the end of a campaign that has so far claimed 172 known victims across the United States, India, and Brazil.
Another day, another headline-grabbing cyberattack.
This time, the victim is Toptal—a global leader in freelance software engineering, design, and finance talent. A reported 10GB of internal documents, proprietary code, and sensitive client communications were leaked after attackers gained access to the company’s private GitHub repositories.
In today’s hyper-connected industrial landscape, the line between digital and physical infrastructure is thinner than ever. A small misconfiguration or unpatched vulnerability in a software system can lead to the shutdown of entire operations—be it a hospital’s HVAC system, a city’s water treatment plant, or a national power grid. One such alarming possibility has emerged with the discovery of multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Niagara Framework, a cornerstone of many industrial control systems (ICS) globally.
