Tag: cyber
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Restructuring risk operations: building a business-aligned cyber strategy
Why organizations need a new strategy to break down silos and usher in a new era of risk intelligence First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/restructuring_risk_operations_building/
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CISA’s international, industry and academic partnerships slashed
The latest round of sweeping layoffs could hamper the business community’s collaboration with the beleaguered cyber agency. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-stakeholder-engagement-division-layoffs-critical-infrastructure-international/803433/
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Jaguar Land Rover looking at $2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack
Incident was likely the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/jaguar-land-rover-struggling-8-weeks-after-most-expensive-uk-cyberattack/
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Threat Actors Advancing Email Phishing Attacks to Bypass Security Filters
Cybercriminals continue to evolve their email phishing arsenals, reviving legacy tactics while layering on advanced evasions to slip past automated filters and human scrutiny. In 2025, attackers are noted tried-and-true approaches”, like password-protected attachments and calendar invites”, with new twists such as QR codes, multi-stage verification chains, and live API integrations. These refinements not only…
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Jaguar Land Rover looking at $2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack
Incident was likely the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/jaguar-land-rover-struggling-8-weeks-after-most-expensive-uk-cyberattack/
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Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost $2.5 billion, says monitoring group
The nonprofit Cyber Monitoring Centre says the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is “the most economically damaging cyber event” to ever impact the United Kingdom. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/jaguar-land-rover-cyberattack-economic-impact
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Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost $2.5 billion, says monitoring group
The nonprofit Cyber Monitoring Centre says the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is “the most economically damaging cyber event” to ever impact the United Kingdom. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/jaguar-land-rover-cyberattack-economic-impact
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Fileless Remcos Attacks: Injecting Malicious Code into RMClient to Evade EDR
CyberProof researchers detected a significant surge in Remcos (Remote Control & Surveillance Software) campaigns throughout September and October 2025, exploiting sophisticated fileless techniques to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. By leveraging highly obfuscated PowerShell scripts and process hollowing into Microsoft’s RMClient.exe, attackers are gaining stealthy persistence and targeting browser credentials. Although Remcos is…
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Threat Actors Exploiting Azure Blob Storage to Breach Organizational Repositories
Threat actors are increasingly targeting Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft’s flagship object storage solution, to infiltrate organizational repositories and disrupt critical workloads. With its capacity to handle exabytes of unstructured data for AI, high performance computing, analytics, media streaming, enterprise backup, and IoT ingestion, Blob Storage has become an attractive vector for sophisticated campaigns aiming to…
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Retail Cyberattacks Reveal Hidden Weaknesses In Supply Chain Security
Cyberattacks on UK retailers show rising supply chain risks. Learn how zero-trust, vendor vetting, and continuous monitoring strengthen cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/retail-cyberattacks-reveal-hidden-weaknesses-in-supply-chain-security/
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‘I am not a robot’: Russian hackers use fake CAPTCHA lures to deploy espionage tools
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, captcha, ceo, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, espionage, exploit, group, hacker, incident response, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, russia, strategy, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustEvolving tactics and strategies: Analysts said ColdRiver, which for years focused on credential theft and email account compromise, is shifting toward multi-stage intrusions that rely on users to execute malicious code.By using ClickFix pages that mimic CAPTCHA verification screens, the group can bypass email security filters and deliver malware directly to victims’ devices, increasing the…
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US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
The annual implementation report recommends reversing Trump administration budget cuts, empowering the national cyber director and other steps. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cyberspace-solarium-commission-report-budget-workforce-cuts/
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Retail Cyberattacks Reveal Hidden Weaknesses In Supply Chain Security
Cyberattacks on UK retailers show rising supply chain risks. Learn how zero-trust, vendor vetting, and continuous monitoring strengthen cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/retail-cyberattacks-reveal-hidden-weaknesses-in-supply-chain-security/
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Hackers Use ASP.NET Machine Keys to Break Into IIS, Push Malicious Extensions
Tags: china, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, exploit, framework, hacker, malicious, monitoring, threatIn September 2025, Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Cybersecurity, a managed detection and response provider, in collaboration with Elastic Security Labs, uncovered a sophisticated post-exploitation campaign by a Chinese-speaking threat actor. Using this method, the attackers installed a malicious IIS module named TOLLBOOTH, deployed a Godzilla-forked webshell framework, leveraged the GotoHTTP remote monitoring and management…
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SharkStealer Adopts EtherHiding Technique for C2 Communication Evasion
SharkStealer, a Golang-based information stealer, has been observed leveraging the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Testnet as a covert dead-drop mechanism for command-and-control (C2) communications. By adopting an “EtherHiding” pattern, the malware retrieves encrypted C2 details from smart contracts through Ethereum RPC calls, decrypts the payload in memory, and initiates contact”, all while blending in with…
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Hackers Exploit Microsoft 365 Direct Send to Evade Filters and Steal Data
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting a legitimate Microsoft 365 feature designed for enterprise convenience, turning Exchange Online’s Direct Send into a dangerous vector for phishing campaigns and business email compromise attacks. Security researchers across the industry are sounding the alarm as malicious actors leverage this trusted pathway to bypass authentication checks and deliver convincing internal-looking messages…
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JLR Hack UK’s Costliest Ever, Hitting Economy with £1.9bn Loss
The Cyber Monitoring Centre has classified the cyber-attack against Jaguar Land Rover as a “systemic cyber event” First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/jlr-hack-uk-costliest-ever-19bn/
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Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B
Tags: cyberThat’s a lot of extended warranties First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/jaguar_lander_rover_cost/
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Jaguar Land Rover hack has cost UK economy £1.9bn, experts say
Cybersecurity body says more than 5,000 organisations affected in most costly cyber-attack to hit Britain<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/oct/22/uk-inflation-stays-at-38-as-food-price-rises-slow-for-first-time-since-march-business-live”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>The hack of Jaguar Land Rover has cost the British economy an estimated £1.9bn and affected more than 5,000 organisations, a cybersecurity body has said.A report by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) said losses could be higher…
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Jaguar Land Rover hack has cost UK economy £1.9bn, experts say
Cybersecurity body says more than 5,000 organisations affected in most costly cyber-attack to hit Britain<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/oct/22/uk-inflation-stays-at-38-as-food-price-rises-slow-for-first-time-since-march-business-live”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>The hack of Jaguar Land Rover has cost the British economy an estimated £1.9bn and affected more than 5,000 organisations, a cybersecurity body has said.A report by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) said losses could be higher…
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Bitter APT Exploits WinRAR Zero-Day Through Malicious Word Files to Steal Sensitive Data
In a newly uncovered campaign, the threat group known as Bitter”, also tracked as APT-Q-37″, has leveraged both malicious Office macros and a previously undocumented WinRAR path traversal vulnerability to deliver a C# backdoor and siphon sensitive information. Researchers at Qi’anxin Threat Intelligence Center warn that this dual-pronged attack illustrates the group’s evolving tactics and…
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky.The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and…
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky.The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and…
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Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) Notice
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update that fixed the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287); Because WSUS’s GetCookie does not perform type verification when processing objects, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote code execution by deserializing malicious data to control the target server. The CVSS score…The…
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Beware of the Risk of Open-Source License Changes
It is not uncommon for open source licenses to change. When licenses change, users often need to re-evaluate compliance risks. Take Redis as an example. Redis is a popular key-value store whose open source license has undergone changes from BSD to SSPL and then to AGPL, which has caused widespread discussion and controversy in the…The…
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Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) Notice
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update that fixed the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287); Because WSUS’s GetCookie does not perform type verification when processing objects, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote code execution by deserializing malicious data to control the target server. The CVSS score…The…
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Beware of the Risk of Open-Source License Changes
It is not uncommon for open source licenses to change. When licenses change, users often need to re-evaluate compliance risks. Take Redis as an example. Redis is a popular key-value store whose open source license has undergone changes from BSD to SSPL and then to AGPL, which has caused widespread discussion and controversy in the…The…
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CAASM and EASM: Top 12 attack surface discovery and management tools
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, blockchain, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, detection, dns, endpoint, exploit, framework, guide, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, risk, risk-assessment, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCAASM and EASM tools for attack surface discovery and management: Periodic scans of the network are no longer sufficient for maintaining a hardened attack surface. Continuous monitoring for new assets and configuration drift are critical to ensure the security of corporate resources and customer data.New assets need to be identified and incorporated into the monitoring…
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Vidar Stealer Exploits: Direct Memory Attacks Used to Capture Browser Credentials
On October 6, 2025, the cybercriminal developer known as >>Loadbaks