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133. <title>Using AI to identify cybercrime masterminds</title>
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173. <title>Taking the shine off BreachForums</title>
174. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/26/taking-the-shine-off-breachforums/</link>
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211. <title>The State of Ransomware 2025</title>
212. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/24/the-state-of-ransomware-2025/</link>
214. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Adam]]></dc:creator>
215. <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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221. <description><![CDATA[Explore the causes and consequences of ransomware in 2025 based on findings from a vendor-agnostic survey of 3,400 organizations hit by ransomware in the last year.]]></description>
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253. <title>June Patch Tuesday digs into 67 bugs</title>
254. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/13/june-patch-tuesday-digs-into-67-bugs/</link>
256. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angela Gunn]]></dc:creator>
257. <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
258. <category><![CDATA[Threat Research]]></category>
259. <category><![CDATA[copilot]]></category>
260. <category><![CDATA[CVE-2025-32711]]></category>
261. <category><![CDATA[CVE-2025-33053]]></category>
262. <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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267. <description><![CDATA[An extremely Windows-heavy month, with a surprise cameo by... Sophos?!]]></description>
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293. <title>Sophos Emergency Incident Response is now available</title>
294. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/10/sophos-emergency-incident-response-is-now-available/</link>
296. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Doug Aamoth]]></dc:creator>
297. <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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300. <category><![CDATA[IR]]></category>
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304. <description><![CDATA[The first service combining the power of Sophos and Secureworks.]]></description>
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316. <title>The strange tale of ischhfd83: When cybercriminals eat their own</title>
317. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/04/the-strange-tale-of-ischhfd83-when-cybercriminals-eat-their-own/</link>
319. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Wixey]]></dc:creator>
320. <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
321. <category><![CDATA[Threat Research]]></category>
322. <category><![CDATA[asyncrat]]></category>
323. <category><![CDATA[Backdoor]]></category>
324. <category><![CDATA[cybercrime forums]]></category>
325. <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category>
326. <category><![CDATA[lumma stealer]]></category>
327. <category><![CDATA[Sophos X-Ops]]></category>
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329.  
330. <description><![CDATA[A simple customer query leads to a rabbit hole of backdoored malware and game cheats]]></description>
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366. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a YAML file</media:title>
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370. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of workflow runs on GitHub</media:title>
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372.  
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374. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of one of the &#039;date and time&#039; files in a backdoored repository</media:title>
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378. <media:title type="html">A screenshot showing the commit history for a file on GitHub</media:title>
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382. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a Github commit</media:title>
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386. <media:title type="html">A screenshot showing commits made by a user</media:title>
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394. <media:title type="html">A screenshot showing commits made by a user</media:title>
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398. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of code </media:title>
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402. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a VBS script</media:title>
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406. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a PowerShell script</media:title>
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410. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a PowerShell script</media:title>
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414. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a function in a PowerShell script</media:title>
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430. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a directory&#039;s contents on Windows</media:title>
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478. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of Python code, with two comments in Russian at the bottom</media:title>
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482. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of Python code</media:title>
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484.  
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490. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of partly-obfuscated .NET code</media:title>
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498. <media:title type="html">A screenshot from a binary inspector, showing sections packed with UPX</media:title>
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506. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of JavaScript code</media:title>
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518. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a debugger, showing a paste link in memory</media:title>
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522. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of JavaScript code, viewed on GitHub via a browser</media:title>
523. </media:content>
524.  
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526. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a function in JavaScript code</media:title>
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530. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a function in JavaScript code</media:title>
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538. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a paste</media:title>
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543. </media:content>
544.  
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546. <media:title type="html">A screenshot of a JSON response</media:title>
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586. <title>Sophos Named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers&#8217; Choice for both Endpoint Protection Platforms and Extended Detection and Response</title>
587. <link>https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/06/02/sophos-named-a-2025-gartner-peer-insights-customers-choice-for-both-endpoint-protection-platforms-and-extended-detection-and-response/</link>
589. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Merry]]></dc:creator>
590. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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