Security

Scattered Spider: Understanding Help Desk Scams and How to Defend Your Organization
In the wake of high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op, Scattered Spider has been all over the media, with coverage spilling over into the mainstream news due to the severity of the disruption caused — currently looking like hu...
2025-06-03 16:30
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Android Trojan Crocodilus Now Active in 8 Countries, Targeting Banks and Crypto Wallets
A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America. The malware, according to a new report published by ThreatFabric, has also adopted improv...
2025-06-03 15:04
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Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues
Google has revealed that it will no longer trust digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock citing "patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year." The changes are expected to be introduced in Chrome 139, which is schedul...
2025-06-03 13:18
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Microsoft and CrowdStrike Launch Shared Threat Actor Glossary to Cut Attribution Confusion
Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced that they are teaming up to align their individual threat actor taxonomies by publishing a new joint threat actor mapping. "By mapping where our knowledge of these actors align, we will provide security professi...
2025-06-03 12:50
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New Chrome Zero-Day Actively Exploited; Google Issues Emergency Out-of-Band Patch
Google on Monday released out-of-band fixes to address three security issues in its Chrome browser, including one that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity flaw is being tracked as CVE-2025-5419, and has been flagge...
2025-06-03 09:52
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Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits DevOps APIs Using Off-the-Shelf Tools from GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that's targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies. Cloud securit...
2025-06-02 21:33
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Preinstalled Apps on Ulefone, Krüger&Matz Phones Let Any App Reset Device, Steal PIN
Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in preloaded Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz that could enable any app installed on the device to perform a factory reset and encrypt an application. A brief descripti...
2025-06-02 20:42
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Qualcomm Fixes 3 Zero-Days Used in Targeted Android Attacks via Adreno GPU
Qualcomm has shipped security updates to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in limited, targeted attacks in the wild. The flaws in question, which were responsibly disclosed to the company by the Google Android Secu...
2025-06-02 19:52
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⚡ Weekly Recap: APT Intrusions, AI Malware, Zero-Click Exploits, Browser Hijacks and More
If this had been a security drill, someone would’ve said it went too far. But it wasn’t a drill—it was real. The access? Everything looked normal. The tools? Easy to find. The detection? Came too late. This is how attacks happen now—quiet, conv...
2025-06-02 16:53
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The Secret Defense Strategy of Four Critical Industries Combating Advanced Cyber Threats
The evolution of cyber threats has forced organizations across all industries to rethink their security strategies. As attackers become more sophisticated — leveraging encryption, living-off-the-land techniques, and lateral movement to evade traditio...
2025-06-02 16:25
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Fake Recruiter Emails Target CFOs Using Legit NetBird Tool Across 6 Global Regions
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new spear-phishing campaign that uses a legitimate remote access tool called Netbird to target Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and financial executives at banks, energy companies, insurers, and investment firm...
2025-06-02 11:21
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New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora
Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598...
2025-05-31 15:49
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U.S. DoJ Seizes 4 Domains Supporting Cybercrime Crypting Services in Global Operation
A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. D...
2025-05-31 12:46
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New EDDIESTEALER Malware Bypasses Chrome's App-Bound Encryption to Steal Browser Data
A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. "This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verificatio...
2025-05-30 19:44
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit SAP and SQL Server Flaws in Attacks Across Asia and Brazil
The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. "The threat a...
2025-05-30 16:42
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From the "Department of No" to a "Culture of Yes": A Healthcare CISO's Journey to Enabling Modern Care
Breaking Out of the Security Mosh Pit When Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, describes legacy healthcare IT environments, he doesn't mince words: "Healthcare loves to walk backwards into the future. And this is how we got here, because ther...
2025-05-30 16:00
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U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud
The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting sca...
2025-05-30 13:21
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ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach
ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by a nation-state threat actor. "ConnectWise recently learned of suspicious activ...
2025-05-30 11:41
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Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas
Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. "We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our...
2025-05-30 09:39
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Cybercriminals Target AI Users with Malware-Loaded Installers Posing as Popular Tools
Fake installers for popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI ChatGPT and InVideo AI are being used as lures to propagate various threats, such as the CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware families, and a new malware dubbed Numero. "CyberLo...
2025-05-29 21:17
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