A Bitcoiner has reportedly lost his holdings to a pig butchering scam despite several warnings. “I’m beyond crushed on many different levels,” the purported victim identified only as “Thomas” said in a Dec. 14 text message shared by Bitcoin adviser Terence Michael. “I don’t know what to do moving forward.” Thomas is not wealthy, according to Michael. Thomas is a divorcee with a young daughter who had just managed to save up to 1 BTC, Michael said. A pig butchering scam refers to a long con where scammers build trust with their victims, typically through romance, to lure them into fake investment schemes. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-beyond-crushed-bitcoiner-loses-154606198.html

“I lost everything. I lost my kids’ future. I lost my future, ” the father told CNN. “I cried every day. How do you tell your 78-year-old mom who has medical problems that everything’s gone?” Pig butchering is a long-con scam that blends romance, confidence tricks and fake investment opportunities, often involving cryptocurrency. The scam gets its name from the farming practice of fattening up pigs before they’re slaughtered. Scammers build trust over weeks or months, “fattening” up their targets with affection and romance before slowly introducing a “can’t-miss” investment that shows impressive, but fake, returns. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/father-loses-280k-falling-pig-120000419.html

A penetration test identifies a critical vulnerability in a customer-facing application, but exploitation would require downtime during peak business hours. The business requests delaying remediation until the next quarterly release. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Accept the risk and document the delay as requested B. Perform a risk assessment and present impact analysis to business leadership C. Immediately remediate the vulnerability despite business objections D. Disable the affected application until remediation is complete

I am excited to share that I have provisionally passed the CISSP yesterday; 100Qs, 1st attempt. 3 months of study, effort, time and discipline paid off, I took a winded path to the CISSP, took the CC in October, then SSCP in November and CISSP this December. Many thanks to this Community, couldn’t have done it without you’ll, the study sessions, the May Brooks strategies; came in clutch!Thanks for putting this together @Vincent Primiani. I’ll certainly be lurking around this community and help out where I can. Preciate you all!

A massive botnet targeting Android devices has emerged as one of the most significant threats in the cybersecurity landscape today. Named Kimwolf, this sophisticated malware has compromised approximately 1.8 million Android devices worldwide, including smart TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, and other Android-based systems. Security researchers discovered the botnet when a trusted community partner provided the initial sample in October 2025, which used a command-and-control domain ranked second in Cloudflare’s global domain popularity rankings. The botnet’s reach spans across 222 countries and regions, with the highest concentration of infected devices in Brazil (14.63%), India (12.71%), and the United States (9.58%). https://cybersecuritynews.com/kimwolf-android-botnet-hijacked/