Tag: cyber
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New Linux Rootkits Leverage Advanced eBPF and io_uring Techniques for Stealthy Attacks
Linux rootkits have historically received less attention than their Windows counterparts, but the rapid adoption of Linux in cloud infrastructure, containers, and IoT devices has shifted the threat landscape. Attackers are constantly innovating, and over the past two decades, Linux rootkits have evolved significantly. While early threats relied on easily detectable userland shared object injections…
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China-Nexus Hackers Target Telecommunication Providers with New Malware Attack
A highly sophisticated China-linked threat actor, identified as UAT-9244, has been actively targeting critical telecommunications infrastructure across South America since 2024. Security researchers assess with high confidence that UAT-9244 exhibits close operational overlap with known espionage groups such as FamousSparrow and Tropic Trooper. To maintain a strong foothold in victim networks, the hackers deploy a…
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Backup strategies are working, and ransomware gangs are responding with data theft
Business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud combined for 58% of all cyber insurance claims filed in 2025, according to data from Coalition covering more than … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/06/cyber-claims-report-ransomware-gangs-data-theft/
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FBI Detains U.S. Government Contractor in Massive $46 Million Fraud Scheme
In a major law enforcement operation, authorities have arrested a U.S. government contractor accused of executing a massive cryptocurrency theft. John Daghita allegedly stole over $46 million in digital assets from the United States Marshals Service (USMS). This successful apprehension highlights the growing intersection of insider threat management, cryptocurrency tracing, and international law enforcement collaboration.…
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WordPress Membership Plugin Flaw Lets Attackers Create Admin Accounts
A critical security vulnerability in the popular WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to easily create administrator accounts. The severe flaw, officially tracked as CVE-2026-1492, currently affects all plugin versions up to and including 5.1.2. Because it requires no prior authentication or user interaction to exploit, the vulnerability carries a maximum critical…
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Google Uncovers 90 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation in 2025
Tags: cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, google, group, intelligence, mobile, software, threat, vulnerability, zero-dayGoogle Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported 90 zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild during 2025. While this total is slightly below the 2023 peak, it highlights a critical shift in the cybersecurity landscape, as attackers are increasingly abandoning generic browser exploits to target edge devices, enterprise software, and mobile operating systems.”‹ Shifting Targets and…
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Europa im Visier von Cyber-Identitätsdieben
Deutsche Unternehmen müssen sich warm anziehen: Sowohl staatliche als auch ‘private” Akteure haben es auf sie abgesehen.ShutterstockWie die Experten von Darktrace in ihrem aktuellen Threat Report 2026 darstellen, bleiben Cloud- und E-Mail-Konten das Einfallstor Nummer Eins in Europa. Dem Bericht zufolge begannen im vergangenen Jahr in Europa 58 Prozent der Attacken mit kompromittierten Cloud-Accounts oder…
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How impenetrable are AI-powered cybersecurity defenses
What Stands Between Cyber Threats and Your Cloud Infrastructure? Where digital transformation accelerates exponentially, the question of security becomes increasingly pertinent. When organizations migrate to cloud environments, ensuring the impenetrability of AI-powered cybersecurity defenses becomes critical. A central theme underpinning these defenses is the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security Management, which offer……
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Defending Against Iranian Cyber Threats in the Wake of Operation Epic Fury
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury (U.S.) and Operation Roaring Lion (Israel), a coordinated military and cyber campaign targeting Iranian military installations, IRGC leadership, and government infrastructure. U.S. Cyber Command was designated the “first mover,” with cyber operations beginning before any kinetic weapons were deployed. In the first…
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Strengthening California’s Cyber Defenses: Apply Now for FFY 2024 SLCGP Grants
Tags: access, authentication, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, email, framework, google, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, mfa, mitigation, office, resilience, risk, service, software, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCal OES offers up to $250,000 to help California’s state, local, and tribal agencies strengthen their digital infrastructure against evolving cyber threats. Organizations must submit their applications by March 13, 2026. Key takeaways Significant competitive funding: Cal OES is distributing $9.7 million for local and tribal governments and $1.8 million for state agencies, with individual…
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The Hidden Cyber Risks of Remote Work Infrastructure
Hidden cyber risks in remote work include insecure home Wi-Fi, phishing attacks, and data exposure, leaving businesses and employees vulnerable to breaches. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/hidden-cyber-risks-remote-work-infrastructure/
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Tycoon 2FA Goes Boom as Europol, Vendors Bust Phishing Platform
The phishing-as-a-service platform was popular among cyber threat actors because of its ability to bypass multifactor authentication defenses. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/tycoon-2fa-europol-vendors-bust-phishing-platform
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The Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, exploit, firewall, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, PCI, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThe Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 03/05/2026 – 16:09 Multi-cloud data security threats are escalating at an unprecedented rate. According to Forrester and the 2025 Thales Global Cloud Data Security Study, the primary drivers of multi-cloud risks are: growing complexity, insufficient access controls, and the…
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The Circus at CISA Continues
Leadership turmoil at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was already raising alarms. Now the nominee to lead the agency is reportedly escorted out of a federal facility while the nation faces rising cyber threats tied to geopolitical tensions. At the moment stability matters most, America’s cyber defense agency appears stuck in political chaos. First…
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Inside the Updated AI Governance Suite Dashboard – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/inside-the-updated-ai-governance-suite-dashboard-kovrr/
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Should Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure?
Tags: access, authentication, banking, breach, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, dora, encryption, fido, finance, framework, governance, Hardware, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, mfa, network, nis-2, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, strategy, supply-chain, technologyShould Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure? madhav Thu, 03/05/2026 – 09:53 Over the past few years, large-scale cloud outages have demonstrated just how deeply digital services are woven into the fabric of modern society. When widely used cloud platforms experience disruption, the impact extends far beyond individual applications; banking services stall, transport systems falter,…
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New MongoDB Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Crash Servers, Exposing Critical Data
Cato CTRL’s senior security researcher, Vitaly Simonovich, has uncovered a high-severity dos vulnerability in MongoDB, tracked as CVE-2026-25611, that lets unauthenticated attackers crash any exposed MongoDB server.”‹ CVE-2026-25611 is rooted in MongoDB’sOP_COMPRESSED wire protocol, a compression feature introduced in version 3.4 and enabled by default since version 3.6. The flaw is classified underCWE-405 (Asymmetric Resource Consumption),…
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Threat Actors Exploit Fake Claude Code Downloads to Deploy Infostealer Malware
Threat actors are abusing interest in Anthropic’s Claude Code tools by setting up fake download pages that ultimately drop a lightweight infostealer via mshta.exe. The campaign shows how a single living”‘off”‘the”‘land binary (LOLBIN) can power an effective data”‘theft chain without any complex malware framework. Attackers register or compromise domains that appear to be legitimate Claude Code…
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PoC Exploit for Cisco SD-WAN 0-Day Vulnerability Now Released, Actively Exploited in the Wild
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN infrastructure, tracked as CVE-2026-20127, is currently under active exploitation by highly sophisticated threat actors. The situation has grown considerably more severe following the public release of a working Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit, which significantly lowers the barrier to entry for cybercriminals. Critical infrastructure sectors must act immediately to…
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RingH23 Threat Actors Target MacCMS and CDN Infrastructure with New Arsenal
Threat actors are abusing a new Linux-based toolkit dubbed RingH23 to silently compromise MacCMS-based video sites and hijack CDN infrastructure at scale, redirecting millions of users to gambling, pornography, and fraud platforms.”‹ Evidence shows Funnull has re-emerged with a fully owned attack framework that no longer parasitizes public CDNs, but actively compromises CDN nodes and…
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DPRK Hackers Target Crypto Firms, Steal Keys and Cloud Assets in Coordinated Attacks
Suspected DPRK-linked threat actors have been observed compromising cryptocurrency firms through a coordinated campaign that blends web-app exploitation, cloud abuse, and secrets theft to position for large”‘scale digital asset theft. The intrusions show a full kill chain from initial access via the React2Shell vulnerability (CVE”‘2025″‘55182) to deep AWS and Kubernetes reconnaissance and exfiltration of proprietary…
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APT28-Linked Campaign Deploys BadPaw Loader and MeowMeow Backdoor in Ukraine
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Russian cyber campaign that has targeted Ukrainian entities with two previously undocumented malware families named BadPaw and MeowMeow.”The attack chain initiates with a phishing email containing a link to a ZIP archive. Once extracted, an initial HTA file displays a lure document written in Ukrainian concerning border…
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62 people indicted by Taiwanese prosecutors over ties to cyber scam company Prince Group
The Taipei District Prosecutors Office initiated its investigation in October after Chen Zhi, the founder of the Prince Group, was indicted by U.S. prosecutors on money laundering charges. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/62-indicted-taiwan-prince-group-scams
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Critical pac4j-jwt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Impersonate Any User
A critical security flaw in the popular Java authentication library pac4j-jwt allows attackers to completely bypass authentication and impersonate any user, including administrators. Tracked as CVE-2026-29000, this vulnerability carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and requires nothing more than the server’s public RSA key to successfully exploit.”‹ Their automated tools and security engineers found…
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Top 10 Best Cybersecurity Marketing Agencies to Watch in 2026
Tags: ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, marketplace, monitoring, privacy, software, threat, tool, zero-trustAs the digital threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, the marketplace for security solutions has become fiercely congested. For B2B vendors, whether you are selling enterprise Zero Trust architecture, dark web monitoring tools, or consumer-grade privacy software, standing out requires more than just a superior technical product. You need to capture the attention of CISOs,…
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Google Rolls Out Emergency Chrome Update to Patch 10 Critical Security Vulnerabilities
Google released an urgent security update for its Chrome browser to address 10 vulnerabilities. Deployed on March 3, 2026, this stable channel update fixes three critical flaws and seven high-severity issues. The emergency patch protects users from potential exploits that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or compromise affected systems. The Chrome update is…
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Google Rolls Out Emergency Chrome Update to Patch 10 Critical Security Vulnerabilities
Google released an urgent security update for its Chrome browser to address 10 vulnerabilities. Deployed on March 3, 2026, this stable channel update fixes three critical flaws and seven high-severity issues. The emergency patch protects users from potential exploits that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or compromise affected systems. The Chrome update is…
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution
Cisco recently disclosed a critical security vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Management Centre (FMC) software. This severe flaw carries a maximum severity score of 10.0 and allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE ID CVSS Score Vulnerability Type CWE CVE-2026-20131 10.0 (Critical) Remote Code Execution CWE-502 The root cause of…