LA County man pleads guilty to sending fake ransom texts to Savannah Guthrie's family

Derrick Callella admitted to sending fake ransom texts to Savannah Guthrie's family amid the high-profile search for the "Today" show host's mother, Nancy Guthrie.

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
CNET

Time Is Running Out to Save Your Samsung Messages

Samsung Messages stops working for US users this July. Here's the fastest way to move your texts and message history to Google Messages before the cutoff. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital ...

The Onion’s new parody of Alex Jones’ Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families

The Onion will this week debut a send-up under its own website with plans to give some of the revenue to families of the ...
The Hacker News

New ChocoPoC RAT Targets Vulnerability Researchers via Fake PoC Exploit Repos

Fake CVE exploit repos pull frint and skytext packages to steal researcher credentials, with servers still live as of July 1.
Bleeping Computer

ChocoPoc malware delivered via trojanized exploits on GitHub

Multiple weaponized proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits on GitHub delivered a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) called ChocoPoC that can execute commands and steal sensitive data. However, ChocoPoC ...