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Today's cyber news highlights significant threats and vulnerabilities. The FBI has seized $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency linked to North Korean hackers, who are also implicated in a $400 million social engineering scheme. This operation involved using video call deception to trick victims. In software security, several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu products have been addressed, including fixes for x11vnc's insecure shared memory permissions, TigerVNC's server impersonation risks, and the signing-party's potential for executing malicious commands via crafted OpenPGP keys. Additionally, updates for SA-Exim and Ruby OpenID have been released to mitigate risks of unsafe rule evaluations and server-side request forgery, respectively.
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AI has given cybercriminals the ability to operate like Fortuneâ500âscale marketing departmentsâexcept their product is account takeover, data theft, and identity fraud.
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Modern enterprises can no longer rely on point-in-time control testing. Cloud adoption, distributed workforces, and escalating regulatory scrutiny require continuous, evidence-driven visibility into whether controls are functioning as designed. Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) delivers this...
The challenge facing security leaders is monumental: Securing environments where failure is not an option. Reliance on traditional security postures, such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to chase threats after they have already entered the network, is fundamentally risky and contributes sig...
Attackers are actively exploiting another FortiWeb vulnerability (CVE-2025-58034) that Fortinet fixed without making its existence public at the time. About CVE-2025-58034 CVE-2025-58034 is an OS Command Injection flaw caused by improper neutralization of special elements. It allows authenticated at...
Googleâs Lighthouse lawsuit signals a new era in cybersecurity, where companies use civil litigationâincluding the CFAA, Lanham Act, and RICOâto dismantle phishing networks, seize malicious infrastructure, and fight hackers when criminal prosecution falls short.
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Microsoft said the DDoS attack was aimed at an endpoint in Australia and reached 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 Bpps.
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Microsoft a dévoilé un nouveau mode pour Windows Admin Center : le Virtualization Mode, ou vMode, pensé pour l'administration des infrastructures Hyper-V.
The post Microsoft dévoile vMode, un mode Virtualisation pour Windows Admin Center first appeared on IT-Connect.
On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced its worst outage in 6 years, blocking access to many websites and online platforms for almost 6 hours after a change to database access controls triggered a cascading failure across its Global Network. [...]
The global MSP ecosystem has entered its most challenging era. As businesses accelerate cloud adoption, hybrid work, and continuous digital operations, MSPs have become essential security partners. Yet despite market growth, the sector is undergoing severe margin compression, operational overload, a...
Our children build digital lives long before they understand them. Hereâs how to shrink their online footprint and stay smart about âsharenting.â
SecurityScorecard has revealed a new Chinese campaign targeting thousands of ASUS routers globally
Sometimes an attack hides in the most ordinary corner of a network. ESET researchers say a China aligned threat group known as PlushDaemon has been quietly using hacked routers to steer software updates toward its own servers. The discovery shows how a small foothold in a single device can become a...
The China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) tracked as 'PlushDaemon' is hijacking software update traffic to deliver malicious payloads to its targets. [...]
The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks.
EdgeStepper "redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the tra...
The threat group PlushDaemon uses routers and other network device implants to redirect domain name system (DNS) queries to malicious external servers which take over updates to unleash tools used for cyberespionage.
Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem.
Malicious actors can exploit default configurations in ServiceNow's Now Assist generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform and leverage its agentic capabilities to conduct prompt injection attacks.
The second-order prompt injection, according to AppOmni, makes use of Now Assist's agent-to-agent...
ESET researchers have discovered a network implant used by the China-aligned PlushDaemon APT group to perform adversary-in-the-middle attacks
An OS command injection flaw, the exploited zero-day allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.
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