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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends. Microsoft has issued a significant Patch Tuesday update, addressing 1,094 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw in Outlook that could expose hashed NTLM credentials. Additionally, hackers are actively exploiting high-severity vulnerabilities in Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave systems, emphasizing the urgency for organizations to patch these flaws. New AI-related threats are emerging, with Microsoft researchers demonstrating how hidden backdoors can be implanted in AI models. Meanwhile, a new tool advertised by hackers claims to maintain Gmail access post-password resets, raising concerns over credential security. Lastly, the SANS Institute reports that incidents in operational technology (OT) environments are on the rise, with one-third of industrial organizations affected.
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Weaponized AI is fueling a new wave of cybercrime, said Group-IB in its latest report
Providing cyberespionage and remote code execution capabilities, the malware is executed via DLL sideloading.
The post APT-Grade PDFSider Malware Used by Ransomware Groups appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small number of big tech firms. Nor had it capitalized on consumer attention, surveilling users and delivering ads.
Unfortunately,...
The Problem: The Identities Left Behind
As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go - but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles.
The reason they persist...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malware campaign that's targeting software developers with a new information stealer called Evelyn Stealer by weaponizing the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension ecosystem.
"The malware is designed to exfiltrate sensitive information...
Google-owned AdMob allegedly collected kids' data for ads without parental consent—including IP addresses, usage data, and exact locations.
Security researchers have uncovered a malicious browser extension campaign, dubbed CrashFix, that deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then uses the resulting confusion to trick users into running attacker-supplied commands.The activity, attributed to a threat cluster Hu...
Radware has unveiled the launch of its Radware API Security Service, an end-to-end solution designed to protect APIs throughout their entire lifecycle using real-time production traffic. Radware API Security Service offers APIs advanced protection against the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, includi...
Digital forensic triage can turn CSAM investigations from months into hours—prioritizing critical evidence on-scene, cutting lab backlogs, and helping investigators safeguard children faster and more effectively.
Sophos has announced Sophos Workspace Protection, expanding its portfolio to help organizations secure hybrid work and govern the use of emerging technologies, including AI. Built around the Sophos Protected Browser, powered by Island, the solution enables organizations to protect applications, data...
Cloudflare has addressed a security vulnerability impacting its Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) validation logic that made it possible to bypass security controls and access origin servers.Â
"The vulnerability was rooted in how our edge network processed requests destined for the...
The rise of malicious bots is changing how the internet operates, underscoring the need for stronger safeguards that keep humans firmly in control. Bots now account for more than half of global web traffic, and a new class of “predator bots” has emerged, unleashing self-learning programs that adapt...
A simple payload allowed attackers to create a new event leaking summaries of the victim’s private meetings.
The post Weaponized Invite Enabled Calendar Data Theft via Google Gemini appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Gartner predicts 50% of organizations will adopt zero trust data governance by 2028
Leaked API keys are no longer unusual, nor are the breaches that follow. So why are sensitive tokens still being so easily exposed?
To find out, Intruder’s research team looked at what traditional vulnerability scanners actually cover and built a new secrets detection method to address gaps in exist...
A newly disclosed weakness in Google’s Gemini shows how attackers could exploit routine calendar invitations to influence the model’s behavior, underscoring emerging security risks as enterprises embed generative AI into everyday productivity and decision-making workflows....
Let’s Encrypt says its short-lived TLS certificates with a 6-day lifetime are now generally available. Each certificate is valid for 160 hours from the time it is issued. To request one, operators must select the “shortlived” profile in their ACME client. The option is opt-in and works with clients...
For a long time, cybersecurity was pretty straightforward: Guard the edges, and everything inside should be fine. Firewalls, DMZs, VPNs — these were the go-to tools. Back then, it worked. Apps lived in data centers, and everyone showed up at the office. But that world disappea...
IDNs or “International Domain Names” have been with us for a while now (see RFC3490[1]). They are (ab)used in many attack scenarios because.. it works! Who can immediately spot the difference between:
A notorious marketplace for fraud, Tudou Guarantee, appears to have closed its public Telegram groups