Tag: cyber
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CyberUK 2025: Resilience and APT Threats Loom Large
Government Officials Sound ‘Wake Up’ Alarms. A rash of cyber incidents felt by British businesses add up to a wake-up call that cybersecurity is an absolute priority, top government officials warned during an annual conference hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC unveiled cyber resilience measures timed for the conference. First seen on…
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ISMG Editors: CISA Cuts and US Cyber Plan Raise Alarms
Also: Cyber IPOs and the Investment Climate, the Urgency of AI Explainability. In this week’s update, ISMG editors unpacked Trump’s teased grand cyber plan amid budget cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, key business takeaways from RSAC Conference 2025 and why explainability in artificial intelligence is becoming critical to trust and security. First…
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Trump admin’s cyber funding cuts gets further lawmaker criticism
Tags: cyberFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/trump-admins-cyber-funding-cuts-gets-further-lawmaker-criticism
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Retirement of leading FBI cyber official Bryan Vorndran imminent
Tags: cyberFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/retirement-of-leading-fbi-cyber-official-bryan-vorndran-imminent
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Efex strengthens cyber offerings with Datcom
Tags: cyberFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/efex-strengthens-cyber-offerings-with-datcom
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Cyber resilience is the strategy: Why business and security must align now
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/cyber-resilience-is-the-strategy-why-business-and-security-must-align-now
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Significant Gap Exists in UK Cyber Resilience Efforts
Threat Outpaces Government’s Ability to Keep Pace, Says Parliamentary Committee. Cyberthreats have evolved beyond the British government’s ability to keep pace, warned a Parliamentary committee in a report highlighting lack of prioritization and a deficiency in civil service cyber skills. The country has felt a series of stinging cyberattacks over the last few years. First…
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Mature But Vulnerable: Pharmaceutical Sector’s Cyber Reality
Pharmaceutical companies typically have more mature cyber programs than other healthcare factions, but these firms also face unique risks involving their large attack surfaces, complex manufacturing, supply chains and sensitive intellectual property, said Joshua Mullen of Booz Allen Hamilton. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/mature-but-vulnerable-pharmaceutical-sectors-cyber-reality-i-5476
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A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations
A cyberattack briefly disrupted South African Airways’ website, app, and systems, but core flight operations remained unaffected. South African Airways (SAA) is the national flag carrier of South Africa, the airline is wholly owned by the South African government and has subsidiaries including SAA Technical and Air Chefs. A cyberattack hit South African Airways, briefly…
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India Tells Financial Sector to Strengthen Cyber Defenses
Old Visuals, AI Deepfakes and Fake Claims Go Viral Amid Escalating Conflict. Misinformation is going viral in India as the New Delhi government called Friday on the financial sector to strengthen cyber defenses amid growing military activity along the Pakistani border. Tensions between the two countries ratcheted significantly upward Friday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Cyber Then & Now: Inside a 2-Decade Industry Evolution
On Dark Reading’s 19-year anniversary, Editor-in-Chief Kelly Jackson Higgins stops by Informa TechTarget’s RSAC 2025 Broadcast Alley studio to discuss how things have changed since the early days of breaking Windows and browsers, lingering challenges, and what’s next beyond AI. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/cyber-then-now-2-decade-industry-evolution
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VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants
Weapons-grade fuel for fraud First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/insight_partners_hack/
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Cyberattackers Targeting IT Help Desks for Initial Breach
Cybercriminals are increasingly impersonating IT support personnel and trusted authorities to manipulate victims into granting access to critical systems, according to recent analyses by cybersecurity experts. This tactic exploits inherent human tendencies to defer to perceived authority figures, enabling attackers to bypass technical defenses by leveraging psychological vulnerabilities. The shift underscores the growing sophistication of…
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New Stealthy .NET Malware Hiding Malicious Payloads Within Bitmap Resources
Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have uncovered a novel obfuscation method employed by threat actors to conceal malware within bitmap resources of seemingly benign 32-bit .NET applications. This advanced steganography technique embeds malicious payloads in bitmap files, initiating a multi-stage infection chain that ultimately delivers destructive malware families such as Agent Tesla,…
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Hackers Weaponizing Facebook Ads to Deploy Multi-Stage Malware Attacks
A persistent and highly sophisticated malvertising campaign on Facebook has been uncovered by Bitdefender Labs, exploiting the trust associated with major cryptocurrency exchanges to distribute multi-stage malware. This ongoing operation, active for several months as of May 2025, leverages advanced evasion techniques, mass brand impersonation, and user-tracking mechanisms to bypass conventional security defenses. By impersonating…
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Threat Actors Target Job Seekers with Three New Unique Adversaries
Netcraft has uncovered a sharp rise in recruitment scams in 2024, driven by three distinct threat actors employing unique and highly technical strategies to exploit vulnerabilities in the job market. As economic pressures like wage stagnation, the cost-of-living crisis, and the gig economy’s growth create fertile ground for cybercriminals, these scams have already resulted in…
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CIOs pay too much for not enough IT security
Cyber system complexity and a lack of adequate tools are adding to enterprise IT headaches, according to Logicalis Group. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisos-pay-it-security-survey/747668/
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When Missiles Fly, Cyber Threats Follow: How to Prepare in Case of a Cyber Fallout!
Are we truly prepared for what’s coming? Amidst the ongoing geopolitical tensions and the risk of a full-scale conflict, every organization must ask itself this question. In an era where cyberattacks often accompany geopolitical unrest, the need for vigilance has never been greater, especially in regions like India’s key technical hubs, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune,……
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Elastic Kibana Prototype Contamination Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-25014)
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Elastic issued a security bulletin to fix the arbitrary code execution vulnerability caused by Elastic Kibana prototype contamination (CVE-2025-25014); Due to the prototype contamination problem in Kibana, an attacker with specific role privileges can bypass the authentication mechanism by constructing specially crafted file uploads and specific HTTP requests to…The…
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Check Point zu den Cyber-Attacken auf britische Handelsketten: Ransomware-Gruppe DragonForce mutmaßlich verantwortlich
Check Point Software Technologies wirft einen Blick auf die Ransomware-Gruppe , die mutmaßlich hinter den Cyber-Attacken in Großbritannien auf britische Handelsketten steckt. Dragonforce wurde erstmals im Dezember 2023 gesichtet, als die Bande ihre Website Dragonleaks im Darknet startete. Seitdem berichtet sie dort über erfolgreiche Attacken. Einige Sicherheitsforscher führen die Gruppe auf DragonForce Malaysia zurück, eine…
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Government will miss cyber resiliency targets, MPs warn
A Public Accounts Committee report on government cyber resilience finds that the Cabinet Office has been working hard to improve, but is likely to miss targets and needs a fundamentally different approach First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366623627/Government-will-miss-cyber-resiliency-targets-MPs-warn
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Chinese Hackers Exploit SAP RCE Vulnerability to Deploy Supershell Backdoors
A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-31324, in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.x is being actively exploited by a Chinese threat actor, tracked as Chaya_004. This deserialization flaw allows attackers to upload malicious binaries, including web shells, to unpatched servers, granting full system takeover capabilities. According to research from Forescout, exploitation has…
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Hackers Target IT Admins by Poisoning SEO to Push Malware to Top Search Results
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting IT administrators through sophisticated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques. By leveraging SEO tactics typically used for legitimate online marketing, attackers manipulate search engine rankings to push malicious websites to the top of results on platforms like Google. Disguised as trusted tools, these malicious payloads trick even seasoned admins into downloading…
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New Mamona Ransomware Targets Windows Systems Using Abused Ping Command
Cybersecurity researchers are raising the alarm about a newly discovered commodity ransomware strain dubbedMamona, which is rapidly spreading across Windows systems. Unlike traditional ransomware, Mamona employs a unique set of tactics, notably exploiting the humble Windows “ping” command as a timing mechanism, and operates entirely offline, making detection and response more difficult. Emerging on the…
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Malicious Python Package Impersonates Discord Developers to Deploy Remote Commands
A seemingly innocuous Python package named ‘discordpydebug’ surfaced on the Python Package Index (PyPI) under the guise of “Discord py error logger.” Marketed as a debugging utility for developers working on Discord bots with the Discord.py library, this package was anything but harmless. Beneath its benign facade lay a fully functional remote access trojan (RAT),…
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New Supply Chain Attack Compromises Popular npm Package with 45,000 Weekly Downloads
An advanced supply chain attack has targeted the well-known npm package rand-user-agent, which receives about 45,000 downloads every week, in a worrying development for the JavaScript developer community. Maintained by WebScrapingAPI, this package is designed to generate randomized, real-world user-agent strings based on their frequency of occurrence. However, recent analysis has uncovered malicious code embedded…
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Hackers Exploit PDF Invoices to Target Windows, Linux, and macOS Systems
A recent discovery by the FortiMail Incident Response team has revealed a highly sophisticated email campaign targeting organizations in Spain, Italy, and Portugal. This attack distributes a potent Remote Access Trojan (RAT) known as RATty, primarily affecting Windows systems, but also posing a threat to Linux and macOS environments where the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)…
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Indirect Prompt Injection Exploits LLMs’ Lack of Informational Context
A new wave of cyber threats targeting large language models (LLMs) has emerged, exploiting their inherent inability to differentiate between informational content and actionable instructions. Termed >>indirect prompt injection attacks,