Tag: cyber
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NSFOCUS Monthly APT Insights August 2025
Regional APT Threat Situation In August 2025, the global threat hunting system of Fuying Lab detected a total of 23 APT attack activities. These activities were primarily concentrated in regions including South Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, and West Asia, as shown in the following figure. Regarding the activity levels of different organizations, the most…The…
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Teen hackers charged over Scattered Spider attack on TfL
Two men have appeared in court in London in connection with the September 2024 cyber attack that disrupted online services at Transport for London First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366631424/Teen-hackers-charged-over-Scattered-Spider-attack-on-TfL
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New ‘shinysp1d3r’ Ransomware-as-a-Service Targets VMware ESXi in Ongoing Development
EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that ShinyHunters is expanding its operations by combining AI-enabled voice phishing, supply chain compromises, and leveraging malicious insiders, such as employees or contractors, who can provide direct access to enterprise networks. ShinyHunters is very likely relying on members of Scattered Spider and The Com to conduct voice phishing attacks…
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New ‘shinysp1d3r’ Ransomware-as-a-Service Targets VMware ESXi in Ongoing Development
EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that ShinyHunters is expanding its operations by combining AI-enabled voice phishing, supply chain compromises, and leveraging malicious insiders, such as employees or contractors, who can provide direct access to enterprise networks. ShinyHunters is very likely relying on members of Scattered Spider and The Com to conduct voice phishing attacks…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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KnowBe4 Report Reveals UK Retail Sector on High Alert for Cyber Scams
KnowBe4, the human risk management platform, has released a new report entitled IT and Cybersecurity Trends in UK Retail: 2025 Survey Insights. The findings revealed nearly all (99.6%) of the 250 UK retail IT security professionals surveyed are facing a significant increase in cyber threats. Notably, 58% cited an increase in helpdesk/IT support scams that…
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Tracking New Entrants in Global Spyware Markets
Lurking in the murky depths of the global marketplace for offensive cyber capabilities sits a particularly dangerous instrument”, spyware. Spyware’s danger stems from its acute contribution to human rights abuses and national security risks. Most recently, NSO Group, a notorious spyware vendor known to have contributed to the surveillance of journalists, diplomats, and civil society…
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Insight Partners Confirms Data Breach Exposing Users’ Personal Data
Insight Partners, a global venture capital and private equity firm, has officially confirmed a significant data breach that exposed personal information of individuals connected to the company. The breach notification reveals sophisticated attack methods and a months-long timeline that has raised serious concerns about data security practices at one of the world’s largest investment firms.…
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SonicWall Advises Users to Reset Logins After Config Backup Leak
SonicWall has alerted its customers to reset all login credentials after a recent leak exposed firewall configuration backups. The vendor emphasizes three critical stages”, containment, remediation, and monitoring”, to minimize risk and restore secure access. Users should follow each stage in order, beginning with containment to block further exposure, proceeding to remediation to reset passwords…
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Hackers Target Facebook Accounts in Latest Phishing Attack
A newly discovered phishing campaign is exploiting Facebook’s external URL warning feature to dupe users into handing over their login credentials. By abusing Facebook’s “You’re about to leave Facebook” redirect mechanism, attackers can conceal malicious URLs behind the social media giant’s official domain and graphic style”, making the lure appear bona fide even to cautious…
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SonicWall Advises Users to Reset Logins After Config Backup Leak
SonicWall has alerted its customers to reset all login credentials after a recent leak exposed firewall configuration backups. The vendor emphasizes three critical stages”, containment, remediation, and monitoring”, to minimize risk and restore secure access. Users should follow each stage in order, beginning with containment to block further exposure, proceeding to remediation to reset passwords…
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Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks
Proofpoint spots efforts to spy on US economic policy nerds First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/pandamonium_chinabacked_attackers_spoof_congressman/
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Splunk Publishes Guide to Spot Remote Work Fraud in Organizations
Splunk today unveiled a comprehensive guide designed to empower security teams to detect Remote Employment Fraud (REF) during the critical onboarding phase”, when imposters have already passed through HR vetting and background checks and gained network access. Building on the inaugural blog, “Imposters at the Gate: Spotting Remote Employment Fraud Before It Crosses the Wire,”…
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Fit für den Ernstfall: MDR als Gamechanger für Ihre Cyber-Resilienz
Betriebsstörungen sind teuer und schaden dem eigenen Image. Unternehmen sollten daher eine präventive IT-Sicherheitsstrategie implementieren, bevor Cyberkriminelle den Geschäftsbetrieb zum Erliegen bringen. First seen on welivesecurity.com Jump to article: www.welivesecurity.com/de/business-security/fit-fur-den-ernstfall-mdr-als-gamechanger-fur-ihre-cyber-resilienz/
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Warlock Ransomware Deployed via Compromised GOLD SALEM Networks and Bypassed Security Solutions
Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers are tracking a sophisticated threat actor known as Warlock Group, which CTU designates as GOLD SALEM. Since March 2025, the group has compromised enterprise networks and bypassed security solutions to deploy its custom Warlock ransomware. While Microsoft refers to this collective as Storm-2603 and associates it “with moderate confidence to…
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Russian CopyCop Network Expands: 200+ Fake News Sites Target US, Canada, and France
The Russian covert influence network known as CopyCop has significantly expanded its disinformation operations, creating over 200 new fake websites since March 2025 to target audiences in the United States, France, and Canada. Digital fingerprint over the Russian flag symbolizing Russian GRU cyber espionage and influence operations This dramatic escalation represents the largest documented expansion…
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PureVPN Vulnerability Reveals IPv6 Address While Reconnecting to Wi-Fi
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in PureVPN’s Linux clients that exposes users’ real IPv6 addresses during network reconnections, undermining the privacy protections that users expect from their VPN service. The vulnerability affects both the graphical user interface (GUI version 2.10.0) and command-line interface (CLI version 2.0.1) on Linux systems, specifically tested on Ubuntu…
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AI is altering entry-level cyber hiring, and the nature of the skills gap
The certification trap and broken pipelines: Other experts argued that an over reliance on CVs and certifications is one of the biggest barriers to hiring success in cybersecurity because it acts to shut out otherwise qualified candidates.”Despite bringing valuable experience and perspectives, people with 10 years of work experience are put off because there is…
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TP-Link Router Zero-Day Lets Attackers Execute Code by Bypassing ASLR
Researchers have uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in TP-Link routers that allows attackers to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and execute arbitrary code remotely. Tracked as CVE-2025-9961, this flaw resides in the CWMP (TR-069) binary and can be triggered through malformed SOAP requests, granting full control of affected devices. A detailed technical walkthrough of discovery,…
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Critical WatchGuard Vulnerability Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Arbitrary Code
WatchGuard released an advisory detailing a critical vulnerability in its Firebox line of network security appliances. Tracked as CVE-2025-9242, the flaw resides in the iked component of WatchGuard’s Fireware OS. An out-of-bounds write in the IKEv2 handling routine can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. Overview of the Vulnerability…
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Researchers Expose Hidden Alliances Between Ransomware Groups
In the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, understanding the true nature of ransomware operations has become increasingly complex. Gone are the days when security teams could treat each ransomware family as a discrete, unified entity. The “post-Conti era” has ushered in a fractured marketplace of mutations, in which allegiances shift, identities blur, and hidden connections…
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Malicious Typosquatted PyPI Packages Spreading SilentSync RAT
On August 4, 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered two malicious Python packages”, sisaws and secmeasure”, that deliver SilentSync, a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT), to unsuspecting developers. Both packages leverage typosquatting to impersonate legitimate libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI), posing a serious supply-chain risk to projects that install them. SilentSync’s versatile capabilities include remote…
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Windows Greenshot Vulnerability Lets Attackers Execute Malicious Code PoC Published
A critical security vulnerability in the popular Greenshot screenshot utility has been discovered that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary malicious code within the trusted application process. The vulnerability, tracked asCVE-2025-59050, affects Greenshot versions up to 1.3.300 and has been patched in version 1.3.301 released on September 16, 2025. Greenshot image editor interface showing capture…
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Researchers Expose Hidden Alliances Between Ransomware Groups
In the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, understanding the true nature of ransomware operations has become increasingly complex. Gone are the days when security teams could treat each ransomware family as a discrete, unified entity. The “post-Conti era” has ushered in a fractured marketplace of mutations, in which allegiances shift, identities blur, and hidden connections…
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BarracudaONE soll Cyber-Resilienz steigern – Barracuda launcht KI-gestützte Cybersicherheitsplattform
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/barracuda-launcht-ki-gestuetzte-cybersicherheitsplattform-a-4e9359a3deb3f7e7f290e944e9fad00e/
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Malicious Typosquatted PyPI Packages Spreading SilentSync RAT
On August 4, 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered two malicious Python packages”, sisaws and secmeasure”, that deliver SilentSync, a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT), to unsuspecting developers. Both packages leverage typosquatting to impersonate legitimate libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI), posing a serious supply-chain risk to projects that install them. SilentSync’s versatile capabilities include remote…
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Raven Stealer Targets Google Chrome Users to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data
Raven Stealer, a sophisticated information-stealing malware that has been wreaking havoc on users’ sensitive data. This contemporary malware represents a concerning evolution in credential theft technology, combining advanced evasion techniques with streamlined data exfiltration capabilities. Raven Stealer stands out as a lightweight yet highly effective information-stealing malware developed primarily in Delphi and C++. Cybersecurity researchers…
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Hackers Abuse RTL/LTR Text Tricks and Browser Flaws to Mask Malicious Links
Cybersecurity researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have uncovered a persistent vulnerability that has remained unaddressed for over a decade, allowing attackers to exploit browser handling of Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-to-Right (LTR) text scripts to create deceptive URLs. This technique, known as BiDi Swap, enables threat actors to craft malicious links that appear legitimate to unsuspecting…