Tag: cyber
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How Ransomware Attacks Leverage Cyber Insurance Policies
Ransomware attacks continue to evolve into sophisticated strategic and psychological operations. Threat actors are always seeking ways to maximize their illicit gains, and they’ve now discovered a powerful piece to leverage: a company’s cyber insurance policy. When attackers gain access to cyber policy details, they come to a ransomware negotiation already holding some of their..…
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How Ransomware Attacks Leverage Cyber Insurance Policies
Ransomware attacks continue to evolve into sophisticated strategic and psychological operations. Threat actors are always seeking ways to maximize their illicit gains, and they’ve now discovered a powerful piece to leverage: a company’s cyber insurance policy. When attackers gain access to cyber policy details, they come to a ransomware negotiation already holding some of their..…
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Shortfall in Cyber Workforce Leads to Skills Gap
Fortinet’s da Gama on Global Cyber Skill Shortage. The global cybersecurity skills shortage is leaving organizations open to more risk than ever, including increased data breach rates, higher recovery costs and prolonged disruptions. According to Fortinet’s latest Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, 86% of organizations experienced some type of breach in 2024 a number only…
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Government Approach to Disrupt Cyber Scams is ‘Fragmented’
Users contend with cybersecurity scams throughout their day; a new Cyber Civic Engagement program wants to provide them with the skills to fight back. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/government-approach-to-disrupt-cyber-scams-is-fragmented-
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Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo
Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/cybercriminals_team_up_with_ocgs/
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Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo
Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/cybercriminals_team_up_with_ocgs/
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Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366634112/CrowdStrike-Europe-second-only-to-North-America-for-cyber-attacks
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CISA and NSA Outline Best Practices to Secure Exchange Servers
CISA and NSA have released a blueprint to enhance Microsoft Exchange Server security against cyber-attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-nsa-secure-exchange-servers/
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Nation-State Hackers Breach Major Telecom Provider Ribbon Communications
Nation-state hackers breached Ribbon Communications, exposing data and highlighting rising cyber threats to critical infrastructure. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/nation-state-hackers-breach-major-telecom-provider-ribbon-communications/
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Hackers Actively Scanning TCP Ports 8530/8531 for WSUS CVE-2025-59287
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center have detected a significant spike in suspicious network traffic targeting Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure worldwide. The reconnaissance activity focuses specifically on TCP ports 8530 and 8531, which correspond to unencrypted and encrypted communication channels for WSUS servers vulnerable to the recently disclosed CVE-2025-59287. This coordinated…
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Let’s Get Physical: A New Convergence for Electrical Grid Security
The power grid is being attacked online and IRL. Increasingly, regulators and industry experts agree: Security teams need to focus on both cyber and physical threats, together. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/physical-convergence-electrical-grid-cybersecurity
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Hackers Actively Scanning TCP Ports 8530/8531 for WSUS CVE-2025-59287
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center have detected a significant spike in suspicious network traffic targeting Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure worldwide. The reconnaissance activity focuses specifically on TCP ports 8530 and 8531, which correspond to unencrypted and encrypted communication channels for WSUS servers vulnerable to the recently disclosed CVE-2025-59287. This coordinated…
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Open VSX Registry Responds to Leaked Tokens and Malicious Extension Incident
The Open VSX team and Eclipse Foundation have addressed a significant security incident involving leaked authentication tokens and malicious extensions on their popular code marketplace. The organization has now contained the situation and outlined concrete steps to prevent future attacks. Earlier this month, security researchers at Wiz identified several developer tokens that had been accidentally…
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Don’t let Congress punt on cyber insurance reform
The cyber incidents in the headlines aren’t acts of cyber terror. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/congress-cyber-insurance-reform-op-ed/
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Don’t let Congress punt on cyber insurance reform
The cyber incidents in the headlines aren’t acts of cyber terror. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/congress-cyber-insurance-reform-op-ed/
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Don’t let Congress punt on cyber insurance reform
The cyber incidents in the headlines aren’t acts of cyber terror. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/congress-cyber-insurance-reform-op-ed/
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Cyber-espionage campaign mirroring Sandworm TTPs hit Russian and Belarusian military
A spear-phishing campaign aimed to compromise Russian and Belarusian military personnel by using military-themed documents as a lure has been flagged by Cyble and Seqrite … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/03/russian-belarusian-military-spear-phishing/
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Open VSX Registry Responds to Leaked Tokens and Malicious Extension Incident
The Open VSX team and Eclipse Foundation have addressed a significant security incident involving leaked authentication tokens and malicious extensions on their popular code marketplace. The organization has now contained the situation and outlined concrete steps to prevent future attacks. Earlier this month, security researchers at Wiz identified several developer tokens that had been accidentally…
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Open VSX Registry Responds to Leaked Tokens and Malicious Extension Incident
The Open VSX team and Eclipse Foundation have addressed a significant security incident involving leaked authentication tokens and malicious extensions on their popular code marketplace. The organization has now contained the situation and outlined concrete steps to prevent future attacks. Earlier this month, security researchers at Wiz identified several developer tokens that had been accidentally…
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Hacktivists increasingly target industrial control systems, Canada Cyber Centre warns
Tags: authentication, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, leak, mfa, military, service, technology, vpn, vulnerabilityHacked fuel tank gauges can lead to dangerous situations: In another incident reported by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, attackers accessed an internet-exposed automated tank gauge (ATG) belonging to a Canadian oil and gas company and manipulated its values, triggering false alarms.ATGs are used to monitor fuel level, pressure, and temperature inside fuel tanks.…
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Hacktivists increasingly target industrial control systems, Canada Cyber Centre warns
Tags: authentication, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, leak, mfa, military, service, technology, vpn, vulnerabilityHacked fuel tank gauges can lead to dangerous situations: In another incident reported by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, attackers accessed an internet-exposed automated tank gauge (ATG) belonging to a Canadian oil and gas company and manipulated its values, triggering false alarms.ATGs are used to monitor fuel level, pressure, and temperature inside fuel tanks.…
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The New Frontier of Cyber Threats: Unpacking Prompt Injection, Model Poisoning and Adversarial Attacks in AI Security
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape”, and with it, a new generation of attack vectors is emerging. From prompt injection to model poisoning and adversarial attacks, threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities unique to AI systems. This article explores how these threats operate, their potential impact, and what defenders must do to build resilient, trustworthy…
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The New Frontier of Cyber Threats: Unpacking Prompt Injection, Model Poisoning and Adversarial Attacks in AI Security
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape”, and with it, a new generation of attack vectors is emerging. From prompt injection to model poisoning and adversarial attacks, threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities unique to AI systems. This article explores how these threats operate, their potential impact, and what defenders must do to build resilient, trustworthy…
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The New Frontier of Cyber Threats: Unpacking Prompt Injection, Model Poisoning and Adversarial Attacks in AI Security
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape”, and with it, a new generation of attack vectors is emerging. From prompt injection to model poisoning and adversarial attacks, threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities unique to AI systems. This article explores how these threats operate, their potential impact, and what defenders must do to build resilient, trustworthy…
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New BOF Tool Bypasses Microsoft Teams Cookie Encryption to Steal User Chats
Cybersecurity researchers at Tier Zero Security have released a specialised Beacon Object File (BOF) tool that exploits a critical weakness in Microsoft Teams cookie encryption, enabling attackers to steal user chat messages and other sensitive communications. The vulnerability stems from how Microsoft Teams handles cookie encryption compared to modern Chromium-based browsers. While contemporary browsers like…
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Cyble Detects Advanced Backdoor Targeting Defense Systems via Belarus Military Lure
Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) have uncovered a cyber-espionage operation that used a weaponized ZIP archive to infiltrate defense-sector systems. The malicious file”, disguised as a Belarusian military document titled “ТЛГ на убытие на переподготовку.pdf” (“TLG for departure for retraining.pdf”)”, delivered a highly advanced backdoor capable of establishing covert access through SSH and Tor. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/belarus-military-hit-by-ssh-tor-backdoor/
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Neue Strategien für mehr Cyber-Resilienz im Mittelstand – Wie Threat-informed Defense den Mittelstand widerstandsfähiger macht
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/threat-informed-defense-mittelstand-resilienz-a-f643e97405b79a12cf49c1f48ef21abc/