Tag: communications
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Cyber Experts Warn of Increased Consumer Scams This Festive Season
As Santa starts his travels, experts are warning that his arrival could bring with it a range of cyber risks, from scams to insecure gadgets. Whilst Santa prefers to deliver via chimney, most cybercriminals are looking for backdoors. In some cases, hackers prefer to deliver malicious communications via email. Worryingly, in 2025, scams are not…
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FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones and Key Parts Over U.S. National Security Risks
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday announced a ban on all drones and critical components made in a foreign country, citing national security concerns.To that end, the agency has added to its Covered List Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country, and all communications and video surveillance…
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Best of 2025: Inside the Minds of Cybercriminals: A Deep Dive into Black Basta’s Leaked Chats
The leaked internal chat communications of the Black Basta ransomware group offer an unprecedented view into how cybercriminals operate, plan attacks, and evade detection. The Veriti Research team analyzed these chat logs, revealing our favorite exploits, security measures they bypass, and the defenses they fear most. Veriti Research analyzed these chat communications, exposing: Targeted Exploits:..…
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How do NHIs manage secrets securely
What Are Non-Human Identities (NHIs) in Cybersecurity? How do we ensure the security of machine-to-machine communications? Within cybersecurity, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are crucial for managing secrets and ensuring comprehensive security. NHIs represent machine identities integral to cybersecurity frameworks. They are distinct from human identities, primarily serving as identifiers in processes where automation and machine interactions……
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BlindEagle Targets Colombian Government Agency with Caminho and DCRAT
Tags: access, attack, authentication, cloud, communications, control, cybercrime, defense, detection, dkim, dmarc, dns, email, encryption, flaw, government, group, infrastructure, injection, Internet, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, phishing, powershell, rat, service, spear-phishing, startup, tactics, threat, tool, update, usa, windowsIntroductionIn early September 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a new spear phishing campaign attributed to BlindEagle, a threat actor who operates in South America and targets users in Spanish-speaking countries, such as Colombia. In this campaign, BlindEagle targeted a government agency under the control of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MCIT) in Colombia using…
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2025 Year of Browser Bugs Recap:
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, browser, cctv, chrome, cloud, communications, computer, credentials, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, flaw, gartner, google, guide, identity, injection, leak, login, malicious, malware, network, openai, passkey, password, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, saas, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, xss, zero-dayAt the beginning of this year, we launched the Year of Browser Bugs (YOBB) project, a commitment to research and share critical architectural vulnerabilities in the browser. Inspired by the iconic Months of Bugs tradition in the 2000s, YOBB was started with a similar purpose”Š”, “Što drive awareness and discussion around key security gaps and…
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Warning: React2Shell vulnerability already being exploited by threat actors
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, china, cloud, communications, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, framework, group, infosec, intelligence, linux, malicious, malware, open-source, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSystem.Management.Automation.AmsiUtils.amsiInitFailed = true (a standard AMSI bypass), and iex executes the next stage.JFrog’s security research team also today reported finding a working proof of concept that leads to code execution, and they and others have also reported finding fake PoCs containing malicious code on GitHub. “Security teams must verify sources before testing [these PoCs],” warns JFrog.Amitai Cohen, attack…
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New Phishing Campaign Impersonates India’s Income Tax Department to Distribute AsyncRAT
In November 2025, security researchers at Raven AI identified a sophisticated zero-day phishing campaign impersonating the Income Tax Department of India, targeting enterprises across the country with a multi-stage malware chain. The attack combined authentic-looking government communications with advanced evasion techniques, delivering both a shellcode-based RAT loader and a malicious executable disguised as a GoTo…
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Russia limits WhatsApp use, claiming it enables terrorism, crime, espionage
Russian users of WhatsApp reported disruptions as authorities limited access to the app, which they said enabled fraud, terrorism and possibly a recent leak of diplomatic communications with the U.S. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-whatsapp-restrictions
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Comcast Fined $1.5 Million to Settle FCC Probe Tied to Vendor Data Breach
Comcast has agreed to a $1.5 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of its customers. The breach has raised concerns about the security of customer data when handled by external companies. The incident originated with Financial…
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Comcast to pay $1.5M fine for vendor breach affecting 270K customers
Comcast will pay a $1.5 million fine to settle a Federal Communications Commission investigation into a February 2024 vendor data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 275,000 customers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/comcast-to-pay-15-million-fine-after-a-vendor-data-breach-affecting-270-000-customers/
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US FCC Scraps CALEA Move, Raising Telecom Security Fears
Lawmakers Say Reversal Strips One of Few Enforceable Standards for Major Carriers. The U.S. FCC’s move to scrap its short-lived interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act – the 1994 statute known as CALEA – sparked warnings that the agency just eliminated one of the few enforceable cybersecurity tools for the telecom sector.…
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US FCC Scraps CALEA Move, Raising Telecom Security Fears
Lawmakers Say Reversal Strips One of Few Enforceable Standards for Major Carriers. The U.S. FCC’s move to scrap its short-lived interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act – the 1994 statute known as CALEA – sparked warnings that the agency just eliminated one of the few enforceable cybersecurity tools for the telecom sector.…
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ToddyCat APT Targeting Internal Employee Communications at Organizations
Advanced persistent threat actors continue to develop sophisticated techniques for compromising corporate communications, with the ToddyCat APT group demonstrating remarkable evolution in their operational capabilities. Recent research from Kaspersky reveals how this highly organized espionage group has refined methods for covertly accessing internal employee communications at target organizations throughout the second half of 2024 and…
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ToddyCat APT Targeting Internal Employee Communications at Organizations
Advanced persistent threat actors continue to develop sophisticated techniques for compromising corporate communications, with the ToddyCat APT group demonstrating remarkable evolution in their operational capabilities. Recent research from Kaspersky reveals how this highly organized espionage group has refined methods for covertly accessing internal employee communications at target organizations throughout the second half of 2024 and…
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ToddyCat APT Targeting Internal Employee Communications at Organizations
Advanced persistent threat actors continue to develop sophisticated techniques for compromising corporate communications, with the ToddyCat APT group demonstrating remarkable evolution in their operational capabilities. Recent research from Kaspersky reveals how this highly organized espionage group has refined methods for covertly accessing internal employee communications at target organizations throughout the second half of 2024 and…
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ToddyCat APT Targeting Internal Employee Communications at Organizations
Advanced persistent threat actors continue to develop sophisticated techniques for compromising corporate communications, with the ToddyCat APT group demonstrating remarkable evolution in their operational capabilities. Recent research from Kaspersky reveals how this highly organized espionage group has refined methods for covertly accessing internal employee communications at target organizations throughout the second half of 2024 and…
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ToddyCat APT Targeting Internal Employee Communications at Organizations
Advanced persistent threat actors continue to develop sophisticated techniques for compromising corporate communications, with the ToddyCat APT group demonstrating remarkable evolution in their operational capabilities. Recent research from Kaspersky reveals how this highly organized espionage group has refined methods for covertly accessing internal employee communications at target organizations throughout the second half of 2024 and…
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FCC reversal removes federal cyber safeguards targeting telecom weaknesses post-Salt Typhoon attacks
Tags: access, at&t, attack, breach, ceo, china, communications, control, country, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, exploit, government, group, hacker, intelligence, law, mobile, network, phone, router, threatSalt Typhoon still reverberating: Salt Typhoon impacted major carriers including AT&T, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Windstream. But law enforcement and intelligence agencies caution that its impact is far more widespread, exposing at least 200 US organizations, plus entities in 80 other countries.According to federal investigations, the attack allowed the Chinese…
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…