Tag: corporate
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Workday Confirms Data Breach Tied to Salesforce Attacks
A New Corporate Victim in a Broader CRM Exploitation Campaign Workday, one of the world’s leading human capital management (HCM) software providers, has confirmed it was impacted in a recent string of coordinated cyberattacks targeting Salesforce CRM instances through sophisticated social engineering. While the company says no customer tenants or internal systems were compromised, attackers……
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Intrusion Detection and Prevention
In today’s hyper-connected digital world, businesses of all sizes face relentless cyber threats. From ransomware and phishing campaigns to advanced persistent threats (APTs) and insider risks, attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the ways they infiltrate corporate networks. Protecting sensitive data, ensuring business continuity, and maintaining regulatory compliance requires more than traditional security tools”, it…
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25% of security leaders replaced after ransomware attack
Tags: attack, breach, business, ceo, ciso, corporate, credentials, email, exploit, malicious, phishing, ransomware, risk, sophos, vulnerabilityA question of authority Dickson also argues that CISO authority should come into play. If decisions are made at the line-of-business (LOB) level, and potentially againstthe CISO’s advice, does it make corporate sense to blame the CISO?Some “presume that a ransomware attack is the fault of the CISO,” he says. “The CISO is a leader,…
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APT groups are getting personal, and CISOs should be concerned
Instead of focusing only on corporate systems, some APT groups are now going after executives in their personal lives. Home networks, private devices, and even family members … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/12/apt-executive-cybersecurity-threats/
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APT groups are getting personal, and CISOs should be concerned
Instead of focusing only on corporate systems, some APT groups are now going after executives in their personal lives. Home networks, private devices, and even family members … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/12/apt-executive-cybersecurity-threats/
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APT groups are getting personal, and CISOs should be concerned
Instead of focusing only on corporate systems, some APT groups are now going after executives in their personal lives. Home networks, private devices, and even family members … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/12/apt-executive-cybersecurity-threats/
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9 things CISOs need know about the dark web
Tags: 2fa, access, ai, attack, automation, backup, blockchain, botnet, breach, captcha, ceo, ciso, communications, corporate, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, ddos, deep-fake, defense, detection, dns, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, group, guide, hacking, identity, incident, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, law, leak, lockbit, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, ransomware, resilience, risk, russia, saas, scam, service, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayNew groups form after major marketplaces are disrupted: International takedown efforts damage infrastructure and curb cybercrime operations by disrupting larger operations, removing major players from the ecosystem and scattering user bases.However, the dark web is highly adaptive and sophisticated actors often maintain contingency plans, including mirrors, backups, and alternative forums, according to Edward Currie, associate…
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Scaling Secrets Security for Large Enterprises
Why is Scaling Secrets Security Crucial for Large Enterprises? Large enterprises hold vast amounts of sensitive information, such as customer data and intellectual property, securely stored within their corporate networks. These organizations often use machine identities, or Non-Human Identities (NHIs), to manage this data. But, how well are these NHIs and their secrets being managed,……
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Hackers Exploit ClickFix Technique to Compromise Windows and Run PowerShell Commands
Threat actors have begun a geographically focused campaign against Israeli infrastructure and corporate entities in a sophisticated cyber incursion discovered by Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Delivered exclusively through Windows systems via PowerShell scripts, the attack chain enables remote access, facilitating data exfiltration, persistent surveillance, and lateral movement within compromised networks. Classified as high severity, this operation…
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Google Hacked Approx 2.5 Million Records of Google Ads Customer Data Leaked
Google has disclosed a significant data breach involving one of its corporate Salesforce instances, compromising customer data tied to its Google Ads platform. Google has not revealed the exact number of people impacted, but according to ShinyHunters, who spoke with Cyber Security News, the breach exposed around 2.5 million records (Approx). Whether some of these…
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CyberArk and HashiCorp Flaws Enable Remote Vault Takeover Without Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered over a dozen vulnerabilities in enterprise secure vaults from CyberArk and HashiCorp that, if successfully exploited, can allow remote attackers to crack open corporate identity systems and extract enterprise secrets and tokens from them. The 14 vulnerabilities, collectively named Vault Fault, affect CyberArk Secrets Manager, Self-Hosted, and First seen on thehackernews.com…
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A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data
A security researcher discovered that flawed API configurations are plaguing corporate livestreaming platforms, potentially exposing internal company meetings”, and he’s releasing a tool to find them. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/corporate-livestreams-exposed-search-tool/
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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Weaponizing Microsoft 365 Direct Send to Bypass Email Security Defenses
Security researchers at StrongestLayer, in collaboration with Jeremy, a seasoned Security Architect at a major manufacturing firm, have exposed a multi-layered spear phishing attack that exploits Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature to infiltrate corporate email systems. The campaign, flagged initially by StrongestLayer’s AI system TRACE, masqueraded as innocuous voicemail notifications from services like RingCentral, but…
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SonicWall: Attackers did not exploit zero-day vulnerability to compromise Gen 7 firewalls
Akira ransomware affiliates are not leveraging an unknown, zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach corporate networks, the security vendor shared today. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/07/sonicwall-gen-7-firewalls-exploit-vulnerability/
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SonicWall: Attackers did not exploit zero-day vulnerability to compromise Gen 7 firewalls
Akira ransomware affiliates are not leveraging an unknown, zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach corporate networks, the security vendor shared today. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/07/sonicwall-gen-7-firewalls-exploit-vulnerability/
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Surge in Threat Actor Exploitation Attempts Serves as Early Warning of Emerging Cyber Vulnerabilities
Researchers have discovered a continuous relationship between increases in threat actor activity and the eventual disclosure of new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in corporate edge technologies, according to a groundbreaking report published by GreyNoise, Inc. The study, spanning data from September 2024 onward, leverages GreyNoise’s Global Observation Grid (GOG) to monitor daily unique IP…
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Survey: Network Security Challenges Persist Despite Desire to Modernize
A survey of 1,000 IT, security and engineering professionals based in North America finds that most organizations are still struggling to manage and secure access to corporate networks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/survey-network-security-challenges-persist-despite-desire-to-modernize/
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Survey: Network Security Challenges Persist Despite Desire to Modernize
A survey of 1,000 IT, security and engineering professionals based in North America finds that most organizations are still struggling to manage and secure access to corporate networks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/survey-network-security-challenges-persist-despite-desire-to-modernize/
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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Hackers Allegedly Breach Nokia’s Internal Network
A cybercriminal group has allegedly infiltrated Nokia’s internal network through a vulnerable third-party contractor, potentially exposing sensitive information belonging to more than 94,500 employees in what security experts are calling one of the most extensive corporate data breaches affecting the telecommunications giant in recent years. The threat actor, identifying as Tsar0Byte, made claims about the…
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Researchers Reveal North Korean Threat Actors’ Tactics for Uncovering Illicit Access
Cybersecurity researchers from Flashpoint have exposed the intricate tactics employed by North Korean threat actors to infiltrate global organizations through remote work vulnerabilities. These operatives, affiliated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), masquerade as legitimate freelance developers, IT specialists, and contractors, embedding themselves in corporate workflows to siphon off at least $88 million…
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Enterprise LLMs Vulnerable to Prompt-Based Attacks Leading to Data Breaches
Security researchers have discovered alarming vulnerabilities in enterprise Large Language Model (LLM) applications that could allow attackers to bypass authentication systems and access sensitive corporate data through sophisticated prompt injection techniques. The findings reveal that many organizations deploying AI-powered chatbots and automated systems may be inadvertently exposing critical information to malicious actors. The vulnerability stems…
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Boards shift focus to tech and navigate cautious investors
Tags: corporateCorporate boards are adjusting to a more uncertain proxy landscape, according to EY’s 2025 Proxy Season Review. The report highlights four key 2025 proxy season trends shaping … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/30/ey-2025-proxy-season-trends/
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Seychelles Commercial Bank Reported Cybersecurity Incident
Seychelles Commercial Bank on Friday said it had recently identified and contained a cybersecurity incident. A hacker claims to have stolen and sold the personal data of clients of Seychelles Commercial Bank. The bank, which provides personal and corporate services on Seychelles, one of the world’s smallest countries, notified customers of a hack, but said…
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Lionishackers Exfiltrate Sensitive Corporate Databases for Sale on the Dark Web
Outpost24’s threat intelligence researchers have uncovered the operations of Lionishackers, a financially motivated cyber threat actor specializing in the exfiltration and illicit sale of corporate databases. This group employs an opportunistic approach to target selection, with a notable preference for entities in Asian countries such as Thailand, Syria, and India. While primarily driven by profit,…