Tag: cyber
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Operation Leak: Authorities Dismantle LeakBase Forum, Secure User Data and IP Logs
The FBI, working alongside international law enforcement agencies, has successfully dismantled the notorious cybercriminal forum LeakBase. Dubbed >>Operation Leak,<< this coordinated global effort resulted in the seizure of the platform's domains and its underlying infrastructure. LeakBase was a prominent online destination where cybercriminals gathered to buy, sell, and trade stolen databases, corporate data, and personal…
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Tycoon 2FA Phishing Operation Dismantled in Joint Raid by Microsoft and Europol
Microsoft, Europol, and industry partners have successfully dismantled the Tycoon 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform. Operating since August 2023, this immense adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) operation allowed cybercriminals to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and infiltrate over 96,000 distinct victims globally. This coordinated disruption marks a significant blow to the cybercriminal impersonation economy. Anatomy of the Tycoon 2FA Threat…
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BadPaw and MeowMeow: Russian Cyber Offensive Targets Ukraine with Novel Malware Duo
The post BadPaw and MeowMeow: Russian Cyber Offensive Targets Ukraine with Novel Malware Duo appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/badpaw-and-meowmeow-russian-cyber-offensive-targets-ukraine-with-novel-malware-duo/
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BadPaw and MeowMeow: Russian Cyber Offensive Targets Ukraine with Novel Malware Duo
The post BadPaw and MeowMeow: Russian Cyber Offensive Targets Ukraine with Novel Malware Duo appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/badpaw-and-meowmeow-russian-cyber-offensive-targets-ukraine-with-novel-malware-duo/
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What to Expect from Iran’s Digital Counterstrike
Tags: attack, breach, cloud, communications, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, espionage, exploit, extortion, finance, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, international, iran, leak, middle-east, military, network, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, service, tool, update, vulnerability, wormAfter the United States and Israel began a bombing campaign on Iran, leading to the decapitation of its political and military leaders, the Middle East has erupted into waves of kinetic warfare. But what should we expect about cyber? Iran has a formidable offensive cybersecurity capability and is considered one of the four most aggressive…
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An OT Incident Scoring System Inspired by Natural Disasters
System Meant to Dispel FUD Faces Uphill Climb to Widespread Adoption. Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes – and now operational technology cyber incidents – all can receive a numerical score based on their severity, although a new effort promoting an OT Incident Impact Score faces an uphill climb to get the traction it needs to succeed. First…
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Canadian Manufacturers Confront Rising OT Cyber Risk
ManuSec Canada Speakers From Subaru and Toronto Transit Discuss Cyber Resilience. Canadian manufacturers face rising cyber risk as IT and OT systems converge. Leaders from Subaru Canada and the Toronto Transit Commission outline how ransomware, supply chain exposure and legacy OT vulnerabilities demand stronger resilience, segmentation and incident response readiness. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Why AI, Zero Trust, and modern security require deep visibility
Tags: ai, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, incident response, intelligence, soc, strategy, threat, tool, zero-trust72% of organizations say NAV is essential for proactive threat hunting and reactive incident response69% say a NAV solution is vital to their threat detection and incident response processThis isn’t about adding more gadgets to the SOC. It’s about strengthening the foundation that the SOC stands on.When visibility is weak, every advanced capability becomes unstable:AI…
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An OT Incident Scoring Systems Inspired by Natural Disasters
System Meant to Dispel FUD Faces Uphill Climb to Widespread Adoption. Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes – and now operational technology cyber incidents – all can receive a score based on their severity, although a new effort promoting an OT Incident Impact Score across critical infrastructure sectors faces an uphill climb to get the traction it needs…
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The 10-hour problem: How visibility gaps are burning out the SOC
An alert firesThe context is partialThe data is dispersedThe logs are incompleteThe analyst starts correlating manually This is the invisible cost of poor visibility.Every alert becomes a puzzle, and analysts become professional puzzle-solvers. But puzzles don’t scale. Not when attacks move faster than your reconstruction speed.The hidden cost of insufficient NAVThe Forrester study shows that…
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US Says Cyber Operations Underpinned Assault on Iran
Separately, Iran Tied to IP Camera Hacks for Targeting and Battle Damage Assessment. U.S. military cyber operations underpinned the first part of the country’s joint strike with Israel against Iran on Saturday. Since then, experts see signs of at least low-level cyber operations to support intelligence-gathering for kinetic attack targeting. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Iranian hacktivists muster their forces but state APTs lay low
Hacktivist activity surrounding the Iran war is sky-high but Iran’s state-backed cyber espionage actors have yet to show their hands, giving security teams a valuable window of time to shore up their defences. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366639722/Iranian-hacktivists-muster-their-forces-but-state-APTs-lay-low
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Iranian-U.S./Israeli Hostilities Lead to Increased Threat Landscape
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, data-breach, disinformation, espionage, exploit, intelligence, iran, phishing, risk, theft, threatOverview Iranian”‘aligned cyber actors pose an elevated near”‘term risk due to their history of espionage, credential theft, disruptive attacks, and high”‘visibility “hacktivist” and disinformation operations, often targeting U.S. and allied interests through phishing, exploitation of exposed systems, and social manipulation. Given the current active hostilities between Iran and the U.S./Israeli-led coalition, threat intelligence indicates activity”¦…
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Tycoon2FA phishing platform dismantled in major operation
A Europol-led sting against the infamous Tycoon2FA MFA bypass phishing service has been successful, with operations disrupted and ringleaders and cyber criminal users identified First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366639642/Tycoon2FA-phishing-platform-dismantled-in-major-operation
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Exceptional Women Recognised for Contribution to Cyber Industry at Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards 2026
The 21 winners of the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards were announced at a ceremony held at the iconic BT Tower in London on the 26th February 2026. The awards celebrated the achievements of women working in cybersecurity around the globe whether recognising personal achievements, efforts to close the gender divide in the industry The…
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Iranian cyberattacks fail to materialize but threat remains acute
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, ceo, control, country, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, endpoint, finance, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, malware, mfa, monitoring, phishing, risk, service, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vpnTargeting and response: According to Adrian Cheek, a senior cybercrime researcher at Canadian threat intelligence company Flare, the most at-risk sectors are critical infrastructure, including the defense and government supply chain, financial services, energy, and healthcare.”Water, energy, and healthcare sectors are currently the most exposed. These sectors combine high targeting priority with weak baseline security,…
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Cyber Defense Magazine – A New Bell Rings For K-12 Cloud Security After the Illuminate Settlement
This article was originally published in Cyber Defense Magazine on 02/09/26 by Charlie Sander. The Illuminate incident serves as a crucial reminder to edtech vendors of the potential backlash that can occur when privacy promises are not upheld In a recent complaint, the FTC addresses Illuminate Education’s need to strengthen its data security after a breach…
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CISA Warns Qualcomm Chipsets Memory Corruption Vulnerability Is Actively Exploited in Attacks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Qualcomm chipset vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on March 3, 2026, confirming active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21385, affects multiple Qualcomm chipsets and introduces a serious memory corruption risk that attackers can leverage to compromise affected devices. Vulnerability…
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Iran”‘Linked “Dust Specter” APT Deploys AI”‘Aided Malware Against Iraqi Officials
Iran”‘nexus APT group “Dust Specter” is targeting Iraqi government officials with AI”‘assisted custom .NET malware, using dual attack chains that blend DLL sideloading, in”‘memory PowerShell, and ClickFix”‘style lures. In January 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz tracked a new campaign against Iraqi officials in which the actor impersonated Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abused compromised government infrastructure…
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Honeywell Controllers Widely Exposed Without Authentication
Security researchers at Zero Science Lab have disclosed a critical vulnerability in Honeywell’s Trend IQ4xx series of Building Management System (BMS) controllers, revealing that the devices expose their full web-based Human-Machine Interface (HMI) without any authentication in their factory-default configuration. The advisory, tracked as ZSL-2026-5979, was publicly released on March 2, 2026, after months of…
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Indian APT ‘Sloppy Lemming’ Targets Defense, Critical Infrastructure
India-nexus cyber threat actors are growing more active and sophisticated, using custom tools coded in Rust and cloud-based command and control. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/india-apt-sloppy-lemming-defense-critical-infrastructure
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New Threat Report: AI Accelerates High-Velocity Cyber Attacks
Cyberattacks are shifting from “breaking in” to simply “logging in,” with AI now automating high-speed operations that overwhelm human defenders. Cloudforce One describes MOE as a cold ratio of effort to operational outcome, and modern threat actors are optimizing every stage of their campaigns around it. Instead of burning expensive zero-days, attackers prefer cheap, scalable…
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Perplexity’s Comet Browser Breached Through Calendar Invite Attack
Security researchers at Zenity Labs disclosed a critical flaw in Perplexity’s Comet “agentic” browser that allowed attackers to steal local files using a malicious Google Calendar invite. The issue, dubbed PerplexedBrowser and grouped under Zenity’s “PleaseFix” family, affected Comet on macOS, Windows, and Android and was rated P1 (critical) in Bugcrowd. The attack required no…
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VoidLink Malware Framework Targets Kubernetes and AI Workloads in New Cyber Attack Wave
VoidLink marks a turning point in how adversaries target Kubernetes and AI workloads, signaling a shift toward cloud-native, AI-aware malware frameworks that live where modern value is created: inside containers, pods, and GPU clusters.research. It fingerprints its surroundings to detect major clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, and Tencent, and distinguishes whether it is…
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VoidLink Malware Framework Targets Kubernetes and AI Workloads in New Cyber Attack Wave
VoidLink marks a turning point in how adversaries target Kubernetes and AI workloads, signaling a shift toward cloud-native, AI-aware malware frameworks that live where modern value is created: inside containers, pods, and GPU clusters.research. It fingerprints its surroundings to detect major clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, and Tencent, and distinguishes whether it is…
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Iranian APT Groups Intensify Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions
A dramatic escalation in Middle Eastern tensions began last week with Operation Lion’s Roar, a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear and military sites. Iran retaliated with missiles and drones, disrupting energy, air travel, and diplomatic stability across the Gulf. Amid this kinetic conflict, Iranian state-affiliated advanced persistent threats (APTs) have ramped up cyber…
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AzCopy Utility Misused for Data Exfiltration in Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware operators are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s trusted Azure data transfer utility, AzCopy, to quietly exfiltrate sensitive data before encryption, turning a routine cloud migration tool into a stealthy theft channel. Instead of relying on obviously malicious tools like Rclone or MegaSync, threat actors are pivoting to native, administrator-approved cloud utilities to blend into normal IT…
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IPVanish VPN for macOS Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation and Code Execution
A high-severity security vulnerability has been discovered in the IPVanish VPN application for macOS. This flaw allows any unprivileged local user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges without requiring any user interaction. The attack bypasses standard macOS security features, including code signature verification, and grants a local attacker complete control over the compromised system.”‹…
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CISA Warns of VMware Aria Operations Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, vmware, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability affecting Broadcom’s VMware Aria Operations to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This flaw, identified as CVE-2026-22719, is currently being exploited in the wild, prompting urgent calls for organizations to apply necessary mitigations. VMware Aria Operations, formerly known as vRealize Operations (vROps),…