Tag: defense
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Snake Keylogger Bypasses Windows Defender and Uses Scheduled Tasks to Steal Credentials
Threat actors have been using a sophisticated phishing operation to impersonate Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAÅž) in order to attack Turkish businesses, especially those in the defense and aerospace sectors. The campaign distributes malicious emails masquerading as contractual documents, such as the file >>TEKLÄ°F Ä°STEĞİ TUSAÅž TÜRK HAVACILIK UZAY SANAYÄ°Ä°_xlsx.exe
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State Department cyber diplomacy firings and changes threaten US defenses
Departures and restructuring will make it harder for the agency to pursue global policies that strengthen its own critical infrastructure, experts said. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/state-department-cyber-bureau-firings-reorganization/753370/
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New “LameHug” Malware Deploys AI-Generated Commands
Ukraine’s CERT-UA has identified a new AI-powered malware, dubbed “LameHug,” which executes commands on compromised Windows systems in cyber-attacks, targeting the nation’s security and defense sector First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/new-lamehug-malware-deploys/
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State Department cyber diplomacy firings and changes threaten U.S. defenses
Departures and restructuring will make it harder for the agency to pursue global policies that strengthen its own critical infrastructure, experts said. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/state-department-cyber-bureau-firings-reorganization/753370/
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It’s Time to Include Geopolitical Risk in Defense Planning
CyXcel’s Megha Kumar on Aligning Enterprise Strategy With Geopolitical Realities. Geopolitical tensions are no longer limited to headlines or high-level diplomacy. They drive cyber risk, supply chain disruption and regulatory fragmentation. CyXcel’s Megha Kumar makes the case for why companies need to take notice and embed geopolitical risks in ongoing security planning. First seen on…
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Hackers Use DNS Queries to Evade Defenses and Exfiltrate Data
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the Domain Name System (DNS) to bypass corporate security measures and steal sensitive data, according to new research from cybersecurity experts. This sophisticated technique, known as DNS tunneling, transforms the internet’s essential >>phonebook
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I Hacked (Logged) In Through The Front Door
Identity-based attacks have become the path of least resistance and it is the responsibility of all organizations to shore up their defenses to mitigate these threats. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/i-hacked-logged-in-through-the-front-door/
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Overcoming the Myths About 5G and OT Security
5G OT Security Summit Speakers on Delicate Balance Between Innovation, Cyber Risk. Digital transformation – which now includes a convergence of cloud-based applications, AI and OT systems – introduces new threat vectors particularly as legacy systems struggle to adapt. Speakers at the 5G OT Security Summit discussed cyber defenses and policies and for securing OT…
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Chinese ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Infiltrated US National Guard Network for Almost a Year
The Department of Defense (DoD) revealed that an advanced persistent threat (APT) group, known as Salt Typhoon and publicly identified as Chinese state-sponsored actors, had successfully penetrated a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network in a major increase in cyberthreats. This compromise spanned from March 2024 to December 2024, enabling potential exfiltration of sensitive military…
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Salt Typhoon hacked the US National Guard for 9 months, and accessed networks in every state
Tags: access, attack, best-practice, breach, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, Internet, malicious, military, network, service, theft, threat, vulnerabilitySensitive military data stolen: The attackers gained access to highly sensitive military and infrastructure information during the nine-month intrusion. The memo stated that “in 2024, Salt Typhoon used its access to a US state’s Army National Guard network to exfiltrate administrator credentials, network traffic diagrams, a map of geographic locations throughout the state, and PII…
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Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack
Cloudflare highlighted a huge rise in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, with attackers seeking to overwhelm defenses First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloudflare-blocks-record-ddos/
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France Says Russia Is Top Threat, Warns of ‘Open Warfare’
Escalating Geopolitical Tensions Could Increase Hacks by 2030, Government Warns. France has identified Russia as the primary threat to national security in the coming years. The French government recommends adopting measures to strengthen its cybersecurity defenses in anticipation of increased hacks from Moscow-aligned attackers driven by geopolitical tensions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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How phishers are weaponizing SVG images in zero-click, evasive campaigns
Innovative, evasive, and targeted campaigns: Researchers pointed out that traditional endpoint detection, antivirus tools, and even email filters struggle to spot this threat because image files like SVGs are rarely considered dangerous. Compared to previous SVG-based attacks that used hosted payloads, this method keeps everything self-contained, further slipping past defenses.Victims span B2B service providers, utilities,…
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MITRE Launches AADAPT Framework to Counter Real-World Attacks on Digital Asset Systems
The MITRE Corporation has unveiled its comprehensive AADAPT framework (Adversarial Actions in Digital Asset Payment Technologies), a specialized knowledge base designed to catalog and counter sophisticated attacks targeting digital asset management systems, cryptocurrency exchanges, and blockchain infrastructure. The framework represents a significant advancement in cybersecurity defense for the rapidly evolving digital asset sector. Modeled after…
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NCC Advises Immediate Windows 11 Upgrade to Strengthen Cyberattack Defenses
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled its latest recommended configuration packs for Microsoft Windows operating systems, designed to streamline the deployment of baseline security settings. These packs distill essential configurations into a minimal set that balances usability with tangible security enhancements, obviating the need for organizations to manually evaluate hundreds of parameters. By…
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AI poisoning and the CISO’s crisis of trust
Tags: access, ai, breach, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, disinformation, exploit, framework, healthcare, identity, infosec, injection, LLM, monitoring, network, privacy, RedTeam, resilience, risk, russia, saas, threat, tool, trainingFoundation models began parroting Kremlin-aligned propaganda after ingesting material seeded by a large-scale Russian network known as the “Pravda Network.”A high-profile AI-generated reading list published by two American news outlets included 10 hallucinated book titles mistakenly attributed to real authors.Researchers showed that imperceptible perturbations in training images could trigger misclassification. Researchers in the healthcare domain demonstrated…
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Summarizing Emails With Gemini? Beware Prompt Injection Risk
Attackers Can Trick Gemini Into Displaying Deceptive Messages, Researchers Warn. Attackers can hide malicious instructions inside emails to trick Google’s Gemini into delivering falsified summaries with deceptive messages to end users, researchers warn. Google said it’s continuing to put multiple defenses in place to combat these types of prompt injection attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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New Grok-4 AI breached within 48 hours using ‘whispered’ jailbreaks
Safety systems cheated by contextual tricks: The attack exploits Grok 4’s contextual memory, echoing its own earlier statements back to it, and gradually guides it toward a goal without raising alarms. Combining Crescendo with Echo Chamber, the jailbreak technique that achieved over 90% success in hate speech and violence tests across top LLMs, strengthens the…
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Rethinking Defense in the Age of AI-Generated Malware
Attackers are using public models and automation tools to generate malware that is unique to every campaign. It doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen before. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/rethinking-defense-in-the-age-of-ai-generated-malware/
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APJ Ransomware Demands Drop 50%, Yet 54% Firms Pay Hackers
Experts Say MDR Services and Proactive Defense Can Break the Payment Cycle APJ organizations face a ransomware paradox: demands dropped 50% to $500,000, yet 54% paid the threat actors. The new Sophos report shows why firms continue paining, how successful negotiations work and what proactive defenses can stop attacks before encryption begins First seen on…
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8 tough trade-offs every CISO must navigate
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, ddos, defense, detection, framework, group, healthcare, incident response, jobs, malicious, mfa, regulation, resilience, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. Weighing security investments when the budget forces choices: Closely related to the trade-off around risk is what CISOs must navigate when it comes to security investments.”For most CISOs, when they have to make tough choices, 99% of the time it’s due to budget constraints that force them to weight risks versus rewards,” says John…
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Putting AI-assisted ‘vibe hacking’ to the test
Tags: access, ai, attack, chatgpt, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, exploit, hacking, least-privilege, LLM, network, open-source, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustUnderwhelming results: For each LLM test, the researchers repeated each task prompt five times to account for variability in responses. For exploit development tasks, models that failed the first task were not allowed to progress to the second, more complex one. The team tested 16 open-source models from Hugging Face that claimed to have been…
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GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes (ECC) as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units (GPUs).”Risk of successful exploitation from RowHammer attacks varies based on DRAM device, platform, design specification, and system settings,” the GPU maker said in an advisory released this week.Dubbed…
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Microsoft Broadens Zero Trust Training to Address Network and SecOps Domains
Zero Trust architectures are being adopted by enterprises globally to update their security postures in response to the fast changing cyberthreat landscape, where traditional perimeter-based defenses are becoming more and more insufficient. Zero Trust operates on the principle of >>never trust, always verify,
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Where policy meets profit: Navigating the new frontier of defense tech startups
In this Help Net Security interview, Thijs Povel, Managing Partner at Ventures.eu, discusses how the firm evaluates emerging technologies through the lens of defense and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/11/thijs-povel-ventures-eu-dual-use-tech/
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Financial firms are locking the front door but leaving the back open
Financial institutions are building stronger defenses against direct cyberattacks, but they may be overlooking a growing problem: their vendors. According to Black Kite’s new … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/11/financial-firms-third-party-cyber-risk/
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Survey: 52% of Firms Now Put CISO in Charge of OT Security
Fortinet Report Says OT Defenses Are Maturing, Aided by AI Tools. Fortinet’s 2025 OT cybersecurity report reveals a shift in risk ownership to the CISO’s office, with increasing maturity, AI-driven defense and rising regulatory pressure shaping how organizations defend operational technology environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/survey-52-firms-now-put-ciso-in-charge-ot-security-a-28918
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Know Your Enemy: Understanding Dark Market Dynamics
To help counter crime, today’s organizations require a cyber-defense strategy that incorporates the mindset of the cybercriminal. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/understanding-dark-market-dynamics
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Cybersecurity Operations and AI Carry Hidden Climate Costs
Crypto Defense, Data Centers, Monitoring Systems Strain Global Energy Use As security monitoring, crypto mining protection and data centers fuel cybersecurity’s energy demands, new regulations, such as Australia’s National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007, signal a global shift toward holding the industry accountable for its environmental impact. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…