Tag: cyber
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CISA Appoints Karen Evans as New Cybersecurity Executive Assistant Director
Karen Evans has been appointed as the new Executive Assistant Director (EAD) for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this new role, Evans brings an extensive portfolio of experience spanning decades in federal cyber policy, critical infrastructure protection, and government IT modernization. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/karen-evans-new-executive-assistant-director/
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New PassCookie Attacks Bypass MFA, Giving Hackers Full Account Access
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), long considered a cornerstone of cybersecurity defense, is facing a formidable new threat:>>Pass-the-Cookie
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China hacking has reached ‘inflection point’
In its 2025 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike observed an increase in China’s cyber capabilities, with a focus on espionage and ‘pre-positioning’ itself in critical environments. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366619774/CrowdStrike-China-hacking-has-reached-inflection-point
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PingAM Java Agent Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Security
A critical security flaw (CVE-2025-20059) has been identified in supported versions of Ping Identity’s PingAM Java Agent, potentially enabling attackers to bypass policy enforcement and access protected resources. The vulnerability”, classified as aRelative Path Traversal (CWE-23)weakness”, affects all PingAM Java Agent deployments integrated with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, prompting urgent calls for remediation. Vulnerability Scope…
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Chinese Hackers Exploit Check Point VPN Zero-Day to Target Organizations Globally
Tags: attack, china, cyber, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, malware, usa, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayA sophisticated cyberespionage campaign linked to Chinese state-sponsored actors has exploited a previously patched Check Point VPN vulnerability (CVE-2024-24919) to infiltrate organizations across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, according to cybersecurity researchers. The attacks, observed between June 2024 and January 2025, primarily targeted the manufacturing sector, deploying ShadowPad malware and, in limited cases, the NailaoLocker…
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260 Domains Hosting 5,000 Malicious PDFs to Steal Credit Card Data
Netskope Threat Labs uncovered a sprawling phishing operation involving 260 domains hosting approximately 5,000 malicious PDF files. These documents, disguised as legitimate resources, employ fake CAPTCHA prompts to redirect victims to phishing sites designed to harvest credit card details and personal information. The campaign, active since the second half of 2024, has impacted over 1,150…
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Winos4.0 Malware Targets Windows Users Through Malicious PDF Files
A new wave of cyberattacks leveraging the Winos4.0 malware framework has targeted organizations in Taiwan through malicious PDF attachments disguised as tax inspection alerts, according to a January 2025 threat analysis by FortiGuard Labs. The campaign employs multi-stage payload delivery, anti-forensic techniques, and automated security bypass mechanisms to establish persistent access to victim networks while…
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DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded API Keys and Passwords
A sweeping analysis of the Common Crawl dataset”, a cornerstone of training data for large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek”, has uncovered 11,908 live API keys, passwords, and credentials embedded in publicly accessible web pages. The leaked secrets, which authenticate successfully with services ranging from AWS to Slack and Mailchimp, highlight systemic risks in AI…
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Cyber Espionage in Thailand: Chinese APT Deploys Yokai Malware
Cado Security Labs has uncovered a new malware campaign targeting the Royal Thai Police, attributed to the Chinese First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/cyber-espionage-in-thailand-chinese-apt-deploys-yokai-malware/
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Cleveland Municipal Court Remains Closed After Cyber Incident
No details yet on what forced the court to shut down affected systems and halt operations as of late Feb. 23. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/cleveland-municipal-court-remains-closed-after-cyber-incident
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Is Your NHI Lifecycle Management Capable?
Is Your Approach to NHI Lifecycle Management Robust Enough? Have you ever wondered about the invisibility of your organizational cyber risk? When did you last evaluate the strength of your Non-Human Identity (NHI) lifecycle management? The management of NHIs and their secrets has become paramount. NHIs are machine identities that play a pivotal role in……
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New White House Plan to Track Spending Raises Cyber Risks
Trump’s Procurement Tracking Directive Could Expose Vast Government Data to Threats. The White House is mandating federal agencies to track and justify every procurement, a move aimed at transparency but one that experts warn could expose troves of sensitive financial data to hacking, nation-state cyber threats and potential supply chain vulnerabilities across government systems. First…
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Groups Call for Trump to Rescind Proposed HIPAA Rule Update
Health Industry Associations Complain That Proposed Cyber Mandates Are ‘Staggering’. Seven major healthcare industry groups are urging the Trump administration to rescind a proposed update to the HIPAA security rule issued at the end of the Biden administration. The costs and regulatory burden to comply would be staggering to the healthcare sector, they said. First…
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5 things to know about ransomware threats in 2025
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, breach, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, group, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, iot, law, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, password, ransom, ransomware, risk, scam, service, software, sophos, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2. Mid-size organizations are highly vulnerable: Industry data shows mid-size organizations remain highly vulnerable to ransomware attacks. “CISOs need to be aware that ransomware is no longer just targeting large companies, but now even mid-sized organizations are at risk. This awareness is crucial,” says Christiaan Beek, senior director, threat analytics, at Rapid7.Companies with annual revenue…
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GitLab Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Bypass Security and Run Arbitrary Scripts
GitLab has urgently released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its platform that could allow attackers to bypass security mechanisms, execute malicious scripts, and access sensitive data. The patches, included in versions 17.9.1, 17.8.4, and 17.7.6 for both Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), mitigate critical risks affecting Kubernetes integrations, dependency management,…
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What CISOs need from the board: Mutual respect on expectations
Tags: business, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, framework, governance, metric, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, update, vulnerabilityPart 500. While this legislation was groundbreaking for being very prescriptive in what cyber controls are required, there was in earlier drafts indications that each board should have suitably cyber-qualified members.Similar guidelines were established with the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) drafting its Cyber Governance Principles, which were recently refreshed. The timing of this…
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Millions of WordPress Websites Vulnerable to Script Injection Due to Plugin Flaw
A critical security vulnerability in theEssential Addons for Elementorplugin, installed on over 2 million WordPress websites, has exposed sites to script injection attacks via malicious URL parameters. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-24752 and scoring 7.1 (High) on the CVSS scale, allowed attackers to execute reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by exploiting insufficient input sanitization in the plugin’s password reset…
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New Undetectable Batch Script Uses PowerShell and Visual Basic to Install XWorm
A novel malware delivery framework employing advanced obfuscation techniques has evaded detection by security tools for over 48 hours. The attack chain centers around a Batch script that leverages PowerShell and Visual Basic Script (VBS) to deploy either the XWorm remote access trojan or AsyncRAT, marking a significant evolution in fileless attack methodologies, according to…
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2,850+ Ivanti Connect Secure Devices Exposed to Potential Cyberattacks
Tags: cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, government, infrastructure, ivanti, network, risk, vpn, vulnerabilityA sweeping cybersecurity alert has emerged as researchers identify 2,850+ unpatched Ivanti Connect Secure devices worldwide, leaving organizations vulnerable to exploitation through the critical flaw designated CVE-2025-22467. The findings, published by cybersecurity watchdog Shadowserver Foundation, reveal systemic risks to virtual private network (VPN) infrastructures relied upon by enterprises and government agencies for secure remote access. Vulnerability Scope and…
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US Employee Background Check Firm Hacked, 3 Million Records Exposed
DISA Global Solutions, a Houston-based provider of employee background checks and workplace safety services, disclosed a significant cybersecurity incident exposing the personal information of over3.3 million individuals, including 15,198 Maine residents. The breach occurred on February 9, 2024, but was not detected until April 22, 2024, according to a data breach notification filed with the…
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Have I Been Pwned Reports Huge Data Leak, Adds 284 Million Stolen Accounts
Cybersecurity service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has disclosed one of the largest data exposure events in its 11-year history, integrating23 billion rows of stolen credentialsfrom a malware operation dubbed >>ALIEN TXTBASE.
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Geopolitical tensions fuel surge in OT and ICS cyberattacks
New Russian group focused on Ukraine: The second new group to launch attack campaigns against industrial organizations last year, dubbed GRAPHITE, has overlaps with APT28 activities. Also known as Fancy Bear or Pawn Storm, APT28 is believed to be a unit inside Russia’s General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).GRAPHITE launched constant phishing campaigns against hydroelectric,…
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Ukraine-targeted cyber, influence threat actors subjected to EU sanctions
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/ukraine-targeted-cyber-influence-threat-actors-subjected-to-eu-sanctions
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Ukraine-Targeted Cyber Influence Threat Actors Hit With EU Sanctions
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/ukraine-targeted-cyber-influence-threat-actors-hit-with-eu-sanctions
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Purging cyber review board was ‘a great idea,’ DHS deputy secretary nominee says
Tags: cyberTroy Edgar told lawmakers that the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating the Salt Typhoon hack, was “going in the wrong direction.” First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cyber-safety-review-board-purge-cisa-dhs-troy-edgar/
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What Is Cybersecurity Performance Management? – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/what-is-cybersecurity-performance-management-kovrr/
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Ransomware Recovery Lessons Learned From Arnold Clark
Disruptive Data-Stealing Attackers Hit Vehicle Retail Giant Right Before Christmas. Cyber resilience lessons learned: In the wake of a disruptive ransomware attack, the head of automotive retail giant Arnold Clark said continually practicing and refining the organization’s resilience plan has driven its response time down from at least 12 hours, to just one or two.…
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Keeping DEI on the Agenda: Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Award Organisers Set Panel Topic
Tags: cyberEskenzi PR, organisers of The Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards, are proud to announce the theme of this year’s event panel discussion: Keeping DEI on the agenda: progressing, not regressing. The panel topic, informed by ideas submitted by nominators, will be discussed at the event to be held at The BT Tower, London, on…