Tag: credentials
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Anthropic Outlines How Bad Actors Abuse Its Claude AI Models
Anthropic shows how bad actors are using its Claude AI models for a range of campaigns that include influence-as-a-service, credential stuffing, and recruitment scams and becomes the latest AI company to push back at threat groups using their tools for malicious projects. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/anthropic-outlines-bad-actors-abuse-its-claude-ai-models/
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Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia
Tags: apt, business, cloud, credentials, data, data-breach, espionage, government, malware, risk, theft, threatEarth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Trend Research exposed the Earth Kurma APT campaign targeting Southeast Asia’s government and telecom sectors. Threat actors use custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage for espionage, credential theft, and data exfiltration, posing a high business risk with advanced evasion…
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Fog Ransomware Reveals Active Directory Exploitation Tools and Scripts
Cybersecurity researchers from The DFIR Report’s Threat Intel Group uncovered an open directory hosted at 194.48.154.79:80, believed to be operated by an affiliate of the Fog ransomware group, which emerged in mid-2024. This publicly accessible server revealed a sophisticated arsenal of tools and scripts tailored for reconnaissance, exploitation, credential theft, lateral movement, and persistence. The…
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Anthropic Outlines Bad Actors Abuse Its Claude AI Models
Anthropic shows how bad actors are using its Claude AI models for a range of campaigns that include influence-as-a-service, credential stuffing, and recruitment scams and becomes the latest AI company to push back at threat groups using their tools for malicious projects. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/anthropic-outlines-bad-actors-abuse-its-claude-ai-models/
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AI, Automation, and Dark Web Fuel Evolving Threat Landscape
Attackers are leveraging the benefits of new technology and the availability of commodity tools, credentials, and other resources to develop sophisticated attacks more quickly than ever, putting defenders on their heels. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/ai-automation-dark-web-fuel-evolving-threat-landscape
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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 attackers turn overlooked flaws into serious security incidents.1. Stealing AWS Credentials with a RedirectServer-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)…
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Coinbase fixes 2FA log error making people think they were hacked
Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-fixes-2fa-log-error-making-people-think-they-were-hacked/
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Secure Your Secrets with Effective Rotation
Why Does Secrets Rotation Matter in Cybersecurity? Secrets rotation, a cybersecurity best practice, is a procedure to refresh and modify privileged credentials regularly. It’s a critical facet of managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their associated secrets, a fundamental component of contemporary cybersecurity strategies. But why does it hold such significance? NHIs, or machine identities, complement……
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Gamers Beware! New Attack Targets Gamers to Deploy AgeoStealer Malware
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, intelligence, malware, threatThe cybersecurity landscape faces an escalating crisis as AgeoStealer joins the ranks of advanced infostealers targeting global gaming communities. Documented in Flashpoint’s 2025 Global Threat Intelligence Report, this malware strain exploits gaming enthusiasts’ trust through socially engineered distribution channels, leveraging double-layered encryption, sandbox evasion, and real-time data exfiltration to compromise credentials at scale. With infostealers…
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Darcula phishing toolkit gets AI boost, democratizing cybercrime
Tags: ai, apt, attack, automation, awareness, china, credentials, cybercrime, defense, detection, endpoint, finance, google, government, group, infrastructure, malicious, network, phishing, resilience, risk, service, skills, smishing, threat, tool, training, updateAI creates push-button phishing attacks: With the latest update to the “darcula-suite” toolkit, users can now generate phishing pages using generative AI that mimics websites with near-perfect accuracy, and in any language.”Users provide a URL of a legitimate brand or service, and the tool automatically visits that website, downloads all of its assets, and renders…
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It’s Time to Prioritize Cybersecurity Education”¯
From ransomware attacks disrupting school systems to phishing scams targeting student credentials, educational institutions are prime targets for cybercriminals. Cybersecurity education is critical to protecting individual students and the vast, complex systems that support their learning. “¯ First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/its-time-to-prioritize-cybersecurity-education/
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Why NHIs Are Security’s Most Dangerous Blind Spot
When we talk about identity in cybersecurity, most people think of usernames, passwords, and the occasional MFA prompt. But lurking beneath the surface is a growing threat that does not involve human credentials at all, as we witness the exponential growth of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). At the top of mind when NHIs are mentioned, most…
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Beyond the Inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report Reveals How Phishing Is Evolving in the Age of GenAI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, captcha, cloud, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, dmarc, email, exploit, finance, google, identity, jobs, login, malicious, malware, mfa, phishing, radius, risk, scam, spam, strategy, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustGone are the days of mass phishing campaigns. Today’s attackers are leveraging generative AI (GenAI) to deliver hyper-targeted scams, transforming every email, text, or call into a calculated act of manipulation. With flawless lures and tactics designed to outsmart AI defenses, cybercriminals are zeroing in on HR, payroll, and finance teams”, exploiting human vulnerabilities with…
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Hacks Targeting Cloud Single Sign-On Rose in 2024
Hackers Deploying Infostealers for Data and Credential Theft. Hacks targeting cloud infrastructure rose significantly last year, with attackers exploiting misconfiguration and single sign-on features to deploy infostealers for data and credential theft. Hackers target centralized cloud assets secured with single sign-ons. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/hacks-targeting-cloud-single-sign-on-rose-in-2024-a-28083
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Verizon DBIR Report: Small Businesses Identified as Key Targets in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: attack, breach, business, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, ransomware, security-incident, vulnerabilityVerizon Business’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released on April 24, 2025, paints a stark picture of the cybersecurity landscape, drawing from an analysis of over 22,000 security incidents, including 12,195 confirmed data breaches. The report identifies credential abuse (22%) and exploitation of vulnerabilities (20%) as the predominant initial attack vectors, with a 34%…
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Despite Recent Security Hardening, Entra ID Synchronization Feature Remains Open for Abuse
Microsoft synchronization capabilities for managing identities in hybrid environments are not without their risks. In this blog, Tenable Research explores how potential weaknesses in these synchronization options can be exploited. Synchronizing identity accounts between Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID is important for user experience, as it seamlessly synchronizes user identities, credentials and groups…
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Weaponized SVG Files Used by Threat Actors to Redirect Users to Malicious Sites
Cybercriminals are increasingly weaponizing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to orchestrate sophisticated phishing campaigns. According to research from Intezer, a cybersecurity firm that triages millions of alerts for enterprises globally, attackers are embedding malicious JavaScript within SVG files to redirect unsuspecting users to credential-harvesting phishing sites. This technique, dubbed >>Script in the Shadows,
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7 Steps to Take After a Credential-Based cyberattack
Hackers don’t break in”, they log in. Credential-based attacks now fuel nearly half of all breaches. Learn how to scan your Active Directory for compromised passwords and stop attackers before they strike. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/7-steps-to-take-after-a-credential-based-cyberattack/
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Researchers Uncover Stealthy Tactics and Techniques of StrelaStealer Malware
Cybersecurity experts have recently shed light on the sophisticated operations of StrelaStealer, also known by its alias Strela, revealing a suite of stealthy tactics employed in its information theft campaigns. This malware, spotlighted by IBM Security X-Force for its association with the HIVE-0145 threat actor group, targets email credentials from prominent clients like Microsoft Outlook…
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Understanding Credential Stuffing: A Growing Cybersecurity Threat
Credential stuffing is a pervasive and increasingly sophisticated cyberattack that exploits the widespread habit of password reuse among users. By… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/understanding-credential-stuffing-a-growing-cybersecurity-threat/
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When AI moves beyond human oversight: The cybersecurity risks of self-sustaining systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, exploit, firewall, fraud, government, identity, infection, login, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, risk, software, technology, threat, update, vulnerabilityautopoiesis, allows AI systems to adapt dynamically to their environments, making them more efficient but also far less predictable.For cybersecurity teams, this presents a fundamental challenge: how do you secure a system that continuously alters itself? Traditional security models assume that threats originate externally, bad actors exploiting vulnerabilities in otherwise stable systems. But with AI capable…
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CVE-2025-24054 Under Active Attack”, Steals NTLM Credentials on File Download
Tags: credentials, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, ntlm, technology, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24054 (CVSS score: 6.5), is a Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hash disclosure First seen on…
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Will politicization of security clearances make US cybersecurity firms radioactive?
Tags: access, business, ceo, cisa, cisco, ciso, credentials, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, disinformation, election, government, infrastructure, intelligence, law, microsoft, network, office, risk, spyware, strategy, threatWhat brought this on: This is mostly a reaction to a White House order on Wednesday that tied security clearances to supporting political concepts. The order chastised Chris Krebs, the former head of Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic. CISA, under…
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Lawsuit: Therapist Accessed Nude Breast Photos of 425 Women
Kansas Plastic Surgeon’s Patients Allege Privacy Abuses Over Worker’s EHR Access. A physical therapist working at a Kansas medical center used his credentials to inappropriately access nude photos of hundreds of breast augmentation patients of an unrelated plastic surgery clinic over two years – until he was fired in 2023, a proposed class action lawsuit…
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Legacy Oracle cloud breach poses credential exposure risk
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cisa-legacy-oracle-cloud-breach-poses-credential-exposure-risk
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CISA Flags Risks from Legacy Oracle Cloud Credential Leak
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cisa-flags-risks-from-legacy-oracle-cloud-credential-leak
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CISA warns companies to secure credentials amid Oracle Cloud breach claims
The agency is asking organizations to come forward if they detect suspicious activity or other evidence of a compromise. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-secure-credentials-oracle-cloud-data/745613/