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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. An attacker leveraged 4,837 hijacked GitHub accounts to deploy a secret stealer in over 1,800 repositories, underscoring the risks associated with compromised credentials. Poland's national e-government platform was taken offline following a cyberattack, disrupting public services. A critical vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module could allow remote code execution, emphasizing the need for prompt patching. Additionally, threat actors exploited stolen AI credentials to generate $740,000 in free compute resources, indicating the increasing value of AI tokens in cybercrime. Finally, unauthorized access incidents linked to ScreenConnect affected 288 endpoints across 48 organizations, prompting security measures from ConnectWise.
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How Can We Ensure Non-Human Identities Remain Protected? Are your organizationâs Non-Human Identities (NHIs) secure from the impending cyber threats lurking in digital corners? While we delve into the intricacies of NHI security, the crucial aspects of managing these machine identities become appare...
Are You Guarding Your Machine Identities Effectively? The management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is a critical component of cybersecurity strategies for organizations operating in cloud environments. NHIs, essentially machine identities, represent a fusion of encrypted credentials, such as passwo...
In todayâs hyperconnected digital landscape, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have evolved into sophisticated, multivector threats capable of crippling even the most resilient infrastructures. While content delivery network (CDN)-based DDoS protection offers scalab...
When we think about cybersecurity, most of us picture alarms going off, software scanning for viruses, and firewalls keeping the bad guys out. Detection and response are the heavy lifters in any modern security strategy, and rightfully so. They help us spot threats, shut them...
A new ClickFix social engineering campaign is targeting the hospitality sector in Europe, using fake Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) screens to trick users into manually compiling and executing malware on their systems. [...]
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation strategies, and more. DDoS myths are also sometimes more dangerous than the attac...
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How OSINT Strengthens Executive Threat Intelligence
High-profile leaders face risks that often start online and can lead to real-world consequences. Personal information exposed across public sources can be used for...
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The scheme starts with a fake reservation cancellation that impersonates a popular booking site, and eventually prompts victims with an error message and âBlue Screen of Deathâ page.
A subpoena has been issued, apparently Resecurity offered its "congratulations" to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters cybercrime crew for falling into its threat intel team's honeypot â resulting in a subpoena being issued for one of the data thieves. Meanwhile, the notorious extortionists have since rem...
Brightspeed, one of the largest fiber broadband companies in the United States, is investigating security breach and data theft claims made by the Crimson Collective extortion gang. [...]
It was discovered that the crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point() function of the Sodium cryptography library mishandled checks for valid elliptic curve points. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.18-1+deb12u1.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Securonix is detailing a multi-stage campaign that starts with a bogus Booking.com message that runs through a ClickFix technique and a fake Blue Screen of Death before dropping the DCRat malware that gives the attackers full remote control of the victim's system.
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Ilya Lichtenstein was supposed to serve five years after being sentenced in late 2024.
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CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. Palo Alto Networks is on shopping spree. The company is reportedly considering a $400 million purchase of Israeli cybersecurity start up Koi, which raised $48 million in funding last year. âŠ
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0184 has been observed targeting Ukrainian military and government entities by leveraging the Viber messaging platform to deliver malicious ZIP archives.
"This organization has continued to conduct high-intensity intelligence gathering activities against...
Flights across Greece were impacted for several hours after noise was reported on multiple air traffic communication channels.
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Bleeping Computer reports that hackers are exploiting an old vulnerability in FortiOS that can be used to get around the two-factor authentication (2FA) requirement.
The vulnerability, designated CVE-2020-12812, was patched back in July 2020, but five and a half years later...
The hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed the theft of personal information pertaining to over 1 million Brightspeed customers.
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