Security

Customer Account Takeovers: The Multi-Billion Dollar Problem You Don’t Know About
Everyone has cybersecurity stories involving family members. Here’s a relatively common one. The conversation usually goes something like this:  “The strangest thing happened to my streaming account. I got locked out of my account, so I had to cha...
2025-04-30 15:54
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Nebulous Mantis Targets NATO-Linked Entities with Multi-Stage Malware Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Russian-speaking cyber espionage group called Nebulous Mantis that has deployed a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT since mid-2022. RomCom "employs advanced evasion techniques, including living-off-th...
2025-04-30 15:50
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RansomHub Went Dark April 1; Affiliates Fled to Qilin, DragonForce Claimed Control
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that RansomHub's online infrastructure has "inexplicably" gone offline as of April 1, 2025, prompting concerns among affiliates of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. Singaporean cybersecurity company G...
2025-04-30 15:45
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Meta Launches LlamaFirewall Framework to Stop AI Jailbreaks, Injections, and Insecure Code
Meta on Tuesday announced LlamaFirewall, an open-source framework designed to secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems against emerging cyber risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and insecure code, among others. The framework, the company sai...
2025-04-30 12:38
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Indian Court Orders Action to Block Proton Mail Over AI Deepfake Abuse Allegations
A high court in the Indian state of Karnataka has ordered the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country. The High Court of Karnataka, on April 29, said the ruling was in response to a legal complaint filed by M Mose...
2025-04-30 10:15
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WhatsApp Launches Private Processing to Enable AI Features While Protecting Message Privacy
Popular messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday unveiled a new technology called Private Processing to enable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in a privacy-preserving manner. "Private Processing will allow users to leverage powerful optional AI feat...
2025-04-29 22:52
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New Reports Uncover Jailbreaks, Unsafe Code, and Data Theft Risks in Leading AI Systems
Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous content. The first of the two techniques, codenamed Inception, instructs an A...
2025-04-29 21:48
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SentinelOne Uncovers Chinese Espionage Campaign Targeting Its Infrastructure and Clients
Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has revealed that a China-nexus threat cluster dubbed PurpleHaze conducted reconnaissance attempts against its infrastructure and some of its high-value customers. "We first became aware of this threat cluster during a...
2025-04-29 18:37
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Product Walkthrough: Securing Microsoft Copilot with Reco
Find out how Reco keeps Microsoft 365 Copilot safe by spotting risky prompts, protecting data, managing user access, and identifying threats - all while keeping productivity high. Microsoft 365 Copilot promises to boost productivity by turning natural ...
2025-04-29 16:30
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Google Reports 75 Zero-Days Exploited in 2024 — 44% Targeted Enterprise Security Products
Google has revealed that it observed 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023.  Of the 75 zero-days, 44% of them targeted enterprise products. As many as 20 flaws were identified in security software and applianc...
2025-04-29 15:41
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Malware Attack Targets World Uyghur Congress Leaders via Trojanized UyghurEdit++ Tool
In a new campaign detected in March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile have been targeted by a Windows-based malware that's capable of conducting surveillance. The spear-phishing campaign involved the use of a troja...
2025-04-29 11:13
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Broadcom and Commvault Flaws to KEV Database
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two high-severity security flaws impacting Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS and Commvault Web Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of act...
2025-04-29 09:51
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Critical SAP Exploit, AI-Powered Phishing, Major Breaches, New CVEs & More
What happens when cybercriminals no longer need deep skills to breach your defenses? Today’s attackers are armed with powerful tools that do the heavy lifting — from AI-powered phishing kits to large botnets ready to strike. And they’re not just ...
2025-04-28 17:48
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How Breaches Start: Breaking Down 5 Real Vulns
Not every security vulnerability is high risk on its own - but in the hands of an advanced attacker, even small weaknesses can escalate into major breaches. These five real vulnerabilities, uncovered by Intruder’s bug-hunting team, reveal how attacke...
2025-04-28 16:30
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Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools
Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a "sophisticated" campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Earth Kurma since June 2024. The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged...
2025-04-28 14:37
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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a "critical patch" but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described...
2025-04-28 13:36
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Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, ...
2025-04-28 12:43
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Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers
Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. "The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI...
2025-04-27 10:32
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ToyMaker Uses LAGTOY to Sell Access to CACTUS Ransomware Gangs for Double Extortion
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the activities of an initial access broker (IAB) dubbed ToyMaker that has been observed handing over access to double extortion ransomware gangs like CACTUS. The IAB has been assessed with medium confidence to be...
2025-04-26 16:08
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North Korean Hackers Spread Malware via Fake Crypto Firms and Job Interview Lures
North Korea-linked threat actors behind the Contagious Interview have set up front companies as a way to distribute malware during the fake hiring process. "In this new campaign, the threat actor group is using three front companies in the cryptocurren...
2025-04-25 19:35
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