Tag: cyber
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Google Files Lawsuit to Dismantle ‘Lighthouse’ Smishing Kit
Google filed a civil lawsuit against 25 individuals accused of ties to a Chinese cyber collective known as the ‘Smishing Triad’ First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-lawsuit-dismantle/
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Washington Post Oracle E-Suite Breach Exposes Data of Over 9,000 Staff and Contractors
The Washington Post disclosed a significant data breach affecting more than 9,700 employees and contractors following an external system compromise targeting its Oracle E-Suite infrastructure. The breach, which occurred on July 10, 2025, went undetected for nearly 3.5 months before being discovered on October 27, 2025. Scope of the Incident According to breach notifications filed…
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Critical Imunify360 Vulnerability Exposes Millions of Linux-Hosted Sites to RCE Attacks
A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability has been patched in Imunify360 AV, a security product protecting approximately 56 million websites worldwide. Hosting companies must apply the patch immediately to prevent potential server compromises. The vulnerability details began circulating in late October 2024, prompting urgent recommendations for affected hosting providers to verify the integrity of their…
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Android Photo Frame App Infects Devices With Malware, Allows Full Remote Takeover
A recent investigation has uncovered alarming security vulnerabilities in Android-powered digital photo frames, turning what should be a simple home or office gadget into a potent tool for cybercriminals. The findings reveal that apps preinstalled on these smart photo frames not only download and execute malware automatically but can also hand over complete device control…
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Press Release: CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN Awards Gala 2025 Celebrate Regional Excellence in Technology Leadership
Tags: ai, business, cio, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, framework, group, healthcare, insurance, intelligence, international, resilience, service, technologyThe CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN and Hong Kong Awards Gala on November 12, 2025, delivered a powerful validation of the region’s technology leadership maturity. CIO ASEAN and CSO ASEAN had the privilege of hosting an evening that brought together the most elite CIO100 and CSO30 award winners, and technology teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam,…
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Microsoft Teams Introduces Premium Feature to Prevent Screenshots and Screen Recording
Microsoft has launched a new security feature in Teams Premium called >>Prevent screen capture,
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Press Release: CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN Awards Gala 2025 Celebrate Regional Excellence in Technology Leadership
Tags: ai, business, cio, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, framework, group, healthcare, insurance, intelligence, international, resilience, service, technologyThe CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN and Hong Kong Awards Gala on November 12, 2025, delivered a powerful validation of the region’s technology leadership maturity. CIO ASEAN and CSO ASEAN had the privilege of hosting an evening that brought together the most elite CIO100 and CSO30 award winners, and technology teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam,…
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Checkout.com Suffers Data Breach as ShinyHunters Attack Cloud Storage
Payment processor Checkout.com recently experienced a data breach after being targeted by the cybercrime group “ShinyHunters.” The attackers accessed old data stored in a third-party cloud system. Luckily, Checkout.com’s live payment processing environment was not affected, and no merchant funds or card numbers were accessed. The company revealed that the breach happened last week when…
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CISA Warns: Akira Ransomware Has Extracted $42M After Targeting Hundreds
A newly updated cybersecurity advisory from federal agencies reveals that the Akira ransomware operation has significantly escalated its campaign, compromising organizations worldwide and accumulating massive ransom proceeds through sophisticated attack methods. According to the joint advisory released on November 13, 2025, by the FBI, CISA, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), Department of Health…
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Lets Attackers Force Firewall Reboots via Malicious Packets
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a denial-of-service vulnerability in its PAN-OS software that allows attackers to force firewalls into unexpected reboots using specially crafted network packets. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-4619, affects multiple versions of PAN-OS running on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls, as well as Prisma Access deployments. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to trigger…
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Lumma Stealer Leverages Browser Fingerprinting for Data Theft and Stealthy C2 Communications
Following the doxxing of Lumma Stealer’s alleged core members last month, the notorious infostealer initially experienced a significant decline in activity as customers migrated to rival platforms like Vidar and StealC. However, recent telemetry data reveals a concerning resurgence of Lumma Stealer operations beginning the week of October 20, 2025, accompanied by sophisticated new capabilities…
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Fortinet FortiWeb Zero-Day Exploited to Gain Full Admin Access
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb has been actively exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to gain complete administrator access without any prior authentication. The flaw affects Fortinet’s Web Application Firewall, which is designed to protect web applications from malicious traffic. Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation On October 6, 2025, cyber deception company Defused published…
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Emulating the Espionage-Oriented Group SideWinder
Tags: attack, cyber, espionage, exploit, government, group, microsoft, military, office, phishing, spear-phishing, threat, vulnerabilityAttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by SideWinder, a threat actor with a long history of cyber espionage dating back to 2012. The group has primarily targeted government, military, and maritime sectors across South Asia and nearby regions through sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns, exploitation of Microsoft Office vulnerabilities, and the…
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Emulating the Espionage-Oriented Group SideWinder
Tags: attack, cyber, espionage, exploit, government, group, microsoft, military, office, phishing, spear-phishing, threat, vulnerabilityAttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by SideWinder, a threat actor with a long history of cyber espionage dating back to 2012. The group has primarily targeted government, military, and maritime sectors across South Asia and nearby regions through sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns, exploitation of Microsoft Office vulnerabilities, and the…
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Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded
Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/chinese_spies_claude_attacks/
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NDSS 2025 Incorporating Gradients To Rules
SESSION Session 3A: Network Security 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: ingzhi Wang (Northwestern University), Xiangmin Shen (Northwestern University), Weijian Li (Northwestern University), Zhenyuan LI (Zhejiang University), R. Sekar (Stony Brook University), Han Liu (Northwestern University), Yan Chen (Northwestern University) PAPER Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection As cyber attacks grow increasingly…
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Feds Fumble Cisco Patches as China-Linked Hackers Strike
CISA Says Agencies Believed They Patched Cisco Flaws But Had Not. The U.S. cyber defense agency issued new patch guidance after discovering multiple federal agencies failed to properly secure Cisco firewalls, leaving federal networks exposed to exploitation by a suspected Chinese threat actor despite a prior emergency directive. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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The 2025 Healthcare Cyber Crisis: Unified AI Defense Against $10.3M Breaches
Tags: ai, breach, cloud, cyber, data, defense, healthcare, infrastructure, network, ransomware, theftThe U.S. healthcare system has entered its most dangerous cyber era.As digital transformation reshapes patient care, cloud infrastructure, IoT/IoMT ecosystems, and interconnected provider networks, the sector has simultaneously become the #1 most cyber-attacked industry for 13 consecutive years. Ransomware outages, data theft, and multi-week operational disruptions now hit hospitals at an unprecedented scale.With average breach…
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The 2025 Healthcare Cyber Crisis: Unified AI Defense Against $10.3M Breaches
Tags: ai, breach, cloud, cyber, data, defense, healthcare, infrastructure, network, ransomware, theftThe U.S. healthcare system has entered its most dangerous cyber era.As digital transformation reshapes patient care, cloud infrastructure, IoT/IoMT ecosystems, and interconnected provider networks, the sector has simultaneously become the #1 most cyber-attacked industry for 13 consecutive years. Ransomware outages, data theft, and multi-week operational disruptions now hit hospitals at an unprecedented scale.With average breach…
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Scottish government to launch cyber observatory
The observatory will analyse and share warnings on public sector cyber threats, and identify emerging risks First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366634326/Scottish-government-to-launch-cyber-observatory
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Two key cyber laws are back as president signs bill to end shutdown
The cyberthreat information sharing law known as CISA 2015 and a cybersecurity grant program for state and local governments have been renewed as part of legislation to reopen the government. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-2015-state-local-grants-renewed-legislation-ending-shutdown
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Two key cyber laws are back as president signs bill to end shutdown
The cyberthreat information sharing law known as CISA 2015 and a cybersecurity grant program for state and local governments have been renewed as part of legislation to reopen the government. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-2015-state-local-grants-renewed-legislation-ending-shutdown
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Malicious npm Package with 206K Downloads Targeting GitHub Repositories to Steal Tokens
On Friday, November 7th, Veracode Threat Research discovered a dangerous typosquatting campaign targeting developers using GitHub Actions. The malicious npm package >>@acitons/artifact>@actions/artifact
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SmartApeSG Uses ClickFix to Deploy NetSupport RAT
The SmartApeSG campaign, also known as ZPHP and HANEYMANEY, continues to evolve its infection tactics, pivoting to ClickFix-style attack vectors. Security researchers have documented the campaign’s latest methodology, which uses deceptive fake CAPTCHA pages to trick users into executing malicious commands that ultimately deploy NetSupport RAT a Remote Access Trojan capable of giving attackers complete…
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Phishing Emails Alert: How Spam Filters Can Steal Your Email Logins in an Instant
Cybercriminals have launched a sophisticated phishing campaign that exploits trust in internal security systems by spoofing email delivery notifications to appear as legitimate spam-filter alerts within organizations. These deceptive emails are designed to steal login credentials that could compromise email accounts, cloud storage, and other sensitive systems. “‹ The attack begins with an email claiming…