Secplicity Blog

Long weekends are good for people. They're also useful for attackers. That's not fearmongering. It's an operational reality. Threat actors understand how businesses work. They know when staffing is lighter, when response times may be slower, and when IT and security teams are more likely to be…

On April 27, 2026, a ransomware written in Golang was submitted to VirusTotal that appended the '.sorry' string to the encrypted filenames. Upon initial review, this was not the same as the 2018 Sorry ransomware, which was built using the open-source HiddenTear encryptor. This was novel, and that…

I remember my first real dev setup. A beige tower, a copy of Turbo C++, and a dial-up connection that screamed like a fax machine having an existential crisis. The workstation was an island. What lived on it stayed on it. The biggest security risk was a floppy disk from a friend, and even then, you…

Cybercrime no longer stays neatly contained behind a screen. In Episode 369 of The 443 Podcast, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack three recent threat stories that show how digital compromise can ripple outward into software supply chains, ransomware recovery, and even stolen freight…

For many small and midsize businesses across Latin America, cybersecurity is no longer a future concern. It is a present operational risk. Episode 368 of The 443: Security Simplified features WatchGuard’s Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner in conversation with Paul Harris, CEO of BGLA and Futurity…

A newly disclosed Windows zero-day, dubbed RedSun, is the latest reminder that attackers do not need to break in if they can simply escalate. Discussed in Episode 367 of The 443 podcast, this vulnerability highlights how trusted system processes can be manipulated to gain full system-level access…