Tag: cyber
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Find Out How You Can Defend Your Organisation Against AI Driven Attacks
KnowBe4, the world renowned cybersecurity platform is hosting its annual CyberSecure Leeds event on Wednesday 24th September as part of the Leeds Digital Festival. This exciting event will focus on the rise of AI-driven cyber threats and how organisations can stay protected by focusing on what matters most, its employees. So “when AI strikes, humans…
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A Cyberattack Victim Notification Framework
Interesting analysis: When cyber incidents occur, victims should be notified in a timely manner so they have the opportunity to assess and remediate any harm. However, providing notifications has proven a challenge across industry. When making notifications, companies often do not know the true identity of victims and may only have a single email address…
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Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters Announces Closure
Announcement Provokes Skepticism in Cyber Community. A band of adolescent hackers behind attacks against airliners, insurers and casinos in the United Kingdom and the United States on Friday said they are shutting down their operations. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters posted a semi-coherent screed announcing a decision to go dark. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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2025 CSO Hall of Fame: Laura Deaner on AI, quantum threats, and cyber leadership
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, india, ml, ransomware, risk, skills, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityHow has the CISO role changed during your career, and what do you see as the biggest cybersecurity challenges for the next generation of CISOs?: Laura Deaner: “When the CISO role first emerged, security was treated as an IT compliance checkbox. Over the years, high-profile breaches”, such as the Code Red incident at Microsoft”, forced…
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GAO Report Spotlights Unaddressed HHS Cyber, IT Concerns
82 Longstanding Recommendations on Data Protection, Security Still Not Acted Upon. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has still not implemented 82 recommendations made in recent years involving high risk cybersecurity and IT management issues, said the Government Accountability Office in a new report directed at HHS’ CIO and its various agency CIOs.…
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Dive into NSFOCUS LLM Security Solution
Overview NSFOCUS LLM security solution consists of two products and services: the LLM security assessment system (AI-SCAN) and the AI unified threat management (AI-UTM), forming a security assessment and protection system covering the entire life cycle of LLM. In the model training and fine-tuning stage, the large language model security assessment system (AI-SCAN) plays a…The…
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“‹”‹DHS watchdog finds mismanagement in critical cyber talent program
CISA was paying employees without mission-critical cybersecurity backgrounds as part of a program for retaining cyber talent. First seen on fedscoop.com Jump to article: fedscoop.com/cisa-cyber-incentive-program-dhs-inspector-general-report/
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Without Federal Help, Cyber Defense Is Up to the Rest of Us
Together, we can foster a culture of collaboration and vigilance, ensuring that we are not just waiting for a hero to save us, but actively working to protect ourselves and our communities. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/without-federal-help-cyber-defense-cisa
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Security Lags Cloud and AI Adoption, Tenable Report Finds, as CISA Lays Out Vision for CVE Program’s Future
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, bug-bounty, business, cisa, cloud, communications, computer, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, framework, google, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, linkedin, mitre, network, nist, office, open-source, privacy, programming, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCheck out Tenable’s report detailing challenges and best practices for cloud and AI security. Plus, CISA rolled out a roadmap for the CVE Program, while NIST updated its guidelines for secure software patches. And get the latest on TLS/SSL security and AI attack disclosures! Here are five things you need to know for the week…
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CISA official calls on lawmakers to extend cyber info-sharing law
The official’s call for a renewal came less than three weeks before the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015), which provides incentives for private entities to voluntarily share digital threat intelligence with the federal government, is due to sunset. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-official-calls-on-lawmakers-renew-cisa2015
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ISMG Editors: The SMB ‘Too Small to Be a Target’ Cyber Myth
Also: AI Pilot Project Purgatory, Agentic AI Commerce Fraud Concerns. In this week’s update, four ISMG editors discussed cybersecurity risks for small and medium-sized businesses, why so many enterprise artificial intelligence projects stall in pilot mode and concerns over fraud with the rise of agentic commerce in payments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Driving a Security-by-Design Mindset Across Manufacturing
Inogen’s Ebenezer Arumai Discusses Cyber Risk in Advance of ManuSec Summit. Ahead of QG Media’s 10th ManuSec Summit – scheduled Oct. 14-15 in Chicago – we caught up with Ebenezer Arumai, director of IT infrastructure and security at medical device manufacturer Inogen, to discuss the cyber risk challenges related to medical equipment. First seen on…
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HybridPetya Exploits UEFI Vulnerability to Bypass Secure Boot on Legacy Systems
ESET Research has uncovered a sophisticated new ransomware variant called HybridPetya, discovered on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. This malware represents a dangerous evolution of the infamous Petya/NotPetya ransomware family, incorporating advanced capabilities to compromise UEFI-based systems and exploit CVE-2024-7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot protections on vulnerable systems. Unlike its predecessors, HybridPetya demonstrates significant…
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CISA official calls on lawmakers to extend cyber info-sharing law
The official’s call for a renewal came less than three weeks before the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015), which provides incentives for private entities to voluntarily share digital threat intelligence with the federal government, is due to sunset. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-official-calls-on-lawmakers-renew-cisa2015
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Microsoft Windows Defender Firewall Vulnerabilities Allow Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released security advisories for four newly discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows Defender Firewall Service that could enable attackers to elevate privileges on affected Windows systems. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-53808, CVE-2025-54104, CVE-2025-54109, and CVE-2025-54915, were all disclosed on September 9, 2025, and share similar characteristics. While exploitation requires local access, successful attacks could…
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EvilAI: Leveraging AI to Steal Browser Data and Evade Detection
EvilAI, a new malware family tracked by Trend Research, has emerged in recent weeks disguised as legitimate AI-driven utilities. These trojans sport professional user interfaces, valid code signatures, and functional features, allowing them to slip past both corporate and personal defenses undetected. Leveraging lightweight installers and AI-generated code, EvilAI rapidly establishes persistent footholds while masquerading…
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Microsoft Windows Defender Firewall Vulnerabilities Allow Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released security advisories for four newly discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows Defender Firewall Service that could enable attackers to elevate privileges on affected Windows systems. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-53808, CVE-2025-54104, CVE-2025-54109, and CVE-2025-54915, were all disclosed on September 9, 2025, and share similar characteristics. While exploitation requires local access, successful attacks could…
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EvilAI: Leveraging AI to Steal Browser Data and Evade Detection
EvilAI, a new malware family tracked by Trend Research, has emerged in recent weeks disguised as legitimate AI-driven utilities. These trojans sport professional user interfaces, valid code signatures, and functional features, allowing them to slip past both corporate and personal defenses undetected. Leveraging lightweight installers and AI-generated code, EvilAI rapidly establishes persistent footholds while masquerading…
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Top 10 Best Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Tools in 2025
In 2025, the cybersecurity landscape is defined by its complexity and the speed of modern threats. Security teams are overwhelmed by a fragmented array of security controls and a lack of clear visibility into what’s actually working. Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) platforms solve this problem by continuously and safely validating security defenses against real-world…
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New Malware Abuses Azure Functions to Host Command and Control Infrastructure
A malicious ISO image named Servicenow-BNM-Verify.iso was uploaded to VirusTotal from Malaysia with almost no detections. The image contains four files”, two openly visible and two hidden. The visible files include a Windows shortcut, servicenow-bnm-verify.lnk, which launches PanGpHip.exe, a legitimate Palo Alto Networks binary. Hidden in the same ISO are libeay32.dll, a genuine OpenSSL library,…
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New Malvertising Campaign Exploits GitHub Repositories to Distribute Malware
A sophisticated malvertising campaign has been uncovered targeting unsuspecting users through “dangling commits” in a legitimate GitHub repository. Attackers are injecting promotional content for a counterfeit GitHub Desktop installer into popular development and open-source projects. When users download what appears to be the genuine client, the installer quietly delivers malicious payloads in the background, compromising…
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Malware Campaign Uses SVG Email Attachments to Deploy XWorm and Remcos RAT
Recent threat campaigns have revealed an evolving use of BAT-based loaders to deliver Remote Access Trojans (RATs), including XWorm and Remcos. These campaigns typically begin with a ZIP archive”, often hosted on seemingly legitimate platforms such as ImgKit”, designed to entice user interaction by mimicking benign content. Once opened, the archive unpacks a highly obfuscated…
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Sidewinder Hackers Exploit LNK Files to Deploy Malicious Scripts
In a striking evolution of its tactics, the Sidewinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group”, also known as APT-C-24 or “Rattlesnake””, has adopted a novel delivery mechanism leveraging Windows shortcut (LNK) files to orchestrate complex, multi-stage intrusions across South Asia. Active since at least 2012 and targeting governments, energy utilities, military installations, and mining operations in…
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Axios Vulnerability Enables Attackers to Crash Node.js Applications via Data Handle Abuse
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular Axios HTTP client library that allows attackers to crash Node.js applications through malicious data URL handling. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-58754, affects all versions of Axios before 1.11.0 and has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5, indicating high severity. Vulnerability Mechanics The vulnerability stems…
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Apple issues spyware warnings as CERT-FR confirms attacks
Apple warned users of a spyware campaign; France’s cyber agency confirmed targeted iCloud-linked devices may be compromised. Apple warned customers last week about new spyware attacks, the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) said. The agency confirmed at least four such alerts since early 2025. Apple sent spyware alerts on March 5, April 29,…
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LAPSUS$ Hunters 4.0 Announce Permanent Shutdown
In a startling development on September 8, the Telegram channel “scattered LAPSUS$ hunters 4.0” declared its intention to “go dark” after taunting law enforcement for repeated missteps. With an audacious message aimed squarely at the FBI and French authorities, the group claimed victory in evading capture and vowed that no future activity would follow their…
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Microsoft to Deprecate VBScript in Windows, Urges Developers to Update Projects
Microsoft announced the phased deprecation of VBScript in Windows, significantly impacting VBA developers who rely on VBScript libraries for regular expressions and external script execution. The company outlined a comprehensive timeline and provided migration guidance to help developers future-proof their projects. Three-Phase Deprecation Timeline VBScript deprecation will occur in three distinct phases over the coming…