Tag: intelligence
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North Korea’s APT37 deploys RokRAT in new phishing campaign against academics
ScarCruft (APT37) launches Operation HanKook Phantom, a phishing campaign using RokRAT to target academics, ex-officials, and researchers. Cybersecurity firm Seqrite Labs uncovered a phishing campaign, tracked as dubbed Operation HanKook Phantom, by the North Korea-linked group APT37 (aka Ricochet Chollima, ScarCruft, Reaper, and Group123). Threat actors are using a fake “National Intelligence Research Society Newsletter…
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Phishing Campaign Exploits Ads to Breach Hotel Property Management Systems
A sophisticated malvertising campaign has emerged that specifically targets hoteliers and vacation rental operators by impersonating well-known service providers. Okta Threat Intelligence reports that attackers have used malicious search engine advertisements”, particularly sponsored ads on Google Search”, to lure unsuspecting hospitality professionals to counterfeit login portals. The ultimate goal: harvesting credentials for cloud-based property management…
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Hackers Exploit Email Marketing Platforms to Deliver Hidden Malware
Tags: cyber, defense, email, exploit, hacker, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, phishing, threatIn recent months, Trustwave SpiderLabs”, a LevelBlue company renowned for its threat intelligence and incident response services”, has observed a marked uptick in phishing campaigns that leverage legitimate email marketing platforms to cloak malicious links. By hijacking established infrastructure and URL redirectors, attackers are evading traditional defenses and duping recipients into divulging sensitive information. To…
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Amazon Stops Russian APT29 Watering Hole Attack Exploiting Microsoft Auth
The campaign shows APT29’s intentions to “cast a wider net in their intelligence collection efforts,” said Amazon First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/amazon-russian-apt29-watering-hole/
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ScarCruft Uses RokRAT Malware in Operation HanKook Phantom Targeting South Korean Academics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign undertaken by the North Korea-linked hacking group called ScarCruft (aka APT37) to deliver a malware known as RokRAT.The activity has been codenamed Operation HanKook Phantom by Seqrite Labs, stating the attacks appear to target individuals associated with the National Intelligence Research Association, including academic figures First seen…
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AIDEFEND: Free AI defense framework
AIDEFEND (Artificial Intelligence Defense Framework) is an open knowledge base dedicated to AI security, providing defensive countermeasures and best practices to help … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/01/aidefend-free-ai-defense-framework/
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APT Groups Weaponize Infostealer Malware in Precision Attacks
Tags: apt, attack, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, espionage, group, intelligence, malware, threat, tool, warfareThe cybersecurity landscape has witnessed a dangerous evolution as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups increasingly weaponize opportunistic infostealer malware for sophisticated espionage campaigns. What once served as broad-spectrum credential harvesting tools are now being repurposed into precision instruments of geopolitical warfare, targeting diplomatic institutions worldwide with devastating effectiveness. Recent threat intelligence from Hudson Rock’s Cavalier…
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KI als Cybercrime-Copilot
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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KI als Cybercrime-Copilot
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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Google Urges 2.5B Gmail Users to Reset Passwords After Salesforce Breach
A sophisticated voice phishing operation has emerged as a significant threat to organizations worldwide, with cybercriminals successfully infiltrating Salesforce environments to steal sensitive data and demand ransom payments. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has identified this financially motivated campaign, designating the primary threat cluster as UNC6040, which has demonstrated alarming success in breaching corporate networks through…
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Amazon Takes Down Russian APT29 Infrastructure Targeting Users
Tags: cyber, cybersecurity, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, network, russia, threat, warfareAmazon’s cybersecurity team has successfully disrupted a sophisticated watering hole campaign orchestrated by APT29, a notorious hacking group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. The August 2025 operation represents the latest chapter in an ongoing cyber warfare battle between tech giants and state-sponsored threat actors seeking to infiltrate global networks and harvest sensitive credentials. APT29’s…
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Google Warns Salesloft Drift Breach Impacts All Drift Integrations Beyond Salesforce
Google has revealed that the recent wave of attacks targeting Salesforce instances via Salesloft Drift is much broader in scope than previously thought, stating it impacts all integrations.”We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat any and all authentication tokens stored in or connected to the Drift platform as potentially compromised,” Google Threat Intelligence…
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Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon expansion prompts multinational advisory
Tags: advisory, attack, authentication, breach, china, cisco, communications, container, corporate, country, cyber, data, exploit, firmware, flaw, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, ivanti, malware, military, monitoring, network, password, router, service, software, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayIvanti, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco flaws exploited: Salt Typhoon has been active since at least 2021, targeting critical infrastructure in telecom, transportation, government, and military bodies around the globe. Notably, a “cluster of activity” has been observed in the UK, according to the country’s National Cyber Security Centre.The group has had “considerable success” with “n-days,”…
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ISMG Editors: Whistleblower’s Social Security Data Bombshell
Also: Netskope’s High-Stakes IPO, How AI Sovereignty Threatens Our Shared Reality. In this week’s update, four ISMG editors discussed explosive whistleblower claims about alleged mishandling of Americans’ sensitive U.S. Social Security data, Netskope’s push for an initial public offering and the global fight over the geopolitical sovereignty of artificial intelligence platforms. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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North Korean Hackers Weaponize Seoul Intelligence Files to Target South Koreans
Pyongyang-backed hacking group APT37 leveraged an internal South Korean intelligence briefing in a spear phishing campaign First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/north-korea-apt37-spear-phishing/
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Weaponized PDFs and LNK Files Used in Windows Attacks
A clandestine campaign in which threat actors are weaponizing a legitimate-looking PDF document, titled “êµê°€ì •ë³´ì—°êµ¬íšŒ 소ì‹ì§€ (52호)” (National Intelligence Research Society Newsletter Issue 52), alongside a malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) file named êµê°€ì •ë³´ì—°êµ¬íšŒ 소ì‹ì§€(52호).pdf.LNK. The attackers distribute both files together”, either within the same archive or as seemingly related attachments. When victims open the LNK…
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Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign Abusing Microsoft Device Code Authentication
Amazon on Friday said it flagged and disrupted what it described as an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT29 actors as part of their intelligence gathering efforts.The campaign used “compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Microsoft’s device code First seen on…
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KI greift erstmals autonom an
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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Cybercrime increasingly moving beyond financial gains
Tags: attack, awareness, business, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, disinformation, espionage, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, malicious, military, network, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-analysis, russia, strategy, theft, threat, tool, ukraine, vulnerability, wormsrcset=”https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?quality=50&strip=all 892w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=223%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 223w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=768%2C1033&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=761%2C1024&quality=50&strip=all 761w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=518%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 518w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=125%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 125w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=62%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 62w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=357%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 357w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=268%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 268w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=186%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 186w” width=”761″ height=”1024″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px”> Incibe. En la imagen, Patricia Alonso GarcÃa.”We are very redundant when talking about cybercrime, because we always associate it with economic motivations,” says Hervé Lambert, global consumer operations…
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Dutch intelligence warn that China-linked APT Salt Typhoon targeted local critical infrastructure
Dutch intelligence reports Chinese cyber spies (Salt Typhoon, RedMike) targeted the Netherlands, hitting critical infrastructure. The Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD say Chinese cyber spies linked to Salt Typhoon (RedMike) targeted the Netherlands in a campaign hitting global critical infrastructure. In late 2024, a large-scale Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting global telecoms was…
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Google Warns Salesloft OAuth Breach Extends Beyond Salesforce, Impacting All Integrations
Google has revealed that the recent wave of attacks targeting Salesforce instances via Salesloft Drift is much broader in scope than previously thought, stating it impacts all integrations.”We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat any and all authentication tokens stored in or connected to the Drift platform as potentially compromised,” Google Threat Intelligence…
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New Android Malware ‘SikkahBot’ Targets Students in Bangladesh
A newly discovered Android malware, dubbed SikkahBot, is actively targeting students in Bangladesh by posing as official applications from the Bangladesh Education Board. This malware campaign, identified by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), has been in operation since July 2024. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/sikkahbot-malware-campaign/
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Your Map for the Cloud Security Maze: An Integrated Cloud Security Solution That’s Part of an Exposure Management Approach
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ciso, cloud, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, kubernetes, mitigation, risk, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementCheck out highlights from the IDC white paper “Bridging Cloud Security and Exposure Management for Unified Risk Reduction,” which explains how CNAPPs help security teams tame the complexity of multi-cloud environments by shifting from a reactive, alert-driven model to a proactive exposure management strategy. Organizations’ rapid expansion into the cloud has created a complex and…
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2025 CSO Hall of Fame: George Finney on decryption risks, AI, and the CISO’s growing clout
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, computing, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, intelligence, jobs, LLM, microsoft, risk, soc, threat, tool, zero-trustWhat do you see as the biggest cybersecurity challenges for the next generation of CISOs, and how should they prepare? : George Finney: One major challenge is the threat of attackers saving encrypted data today with the intention of decrypting it later. With quantum computing, we know that in five to 10 years, older encryption…
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How ACI Worldwide Plans to Take APP Scams Head-On – Part 2
XML-Based Messaging Tech Extends Fraud Detection Into Wider Bank Use Cases. ACI’s signals network intelligence harnesses neural networks and federated machine learning to spot fraud in real time without banks sharing data. Beyond fraud detection, its insights can drive business growth from other business units, and ACI aims to accelerate adoption by making it open…
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Anthropic Blocks Hackers Attempting to Exploit Claude AI for Cyber Attacks
Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has successfully disrupted multiple attempts by cybercriminals to misuse its Claude AI model for sophisticated cyberattacks, as detailed in their latest Threat Intelligence report. The company has implemented advanced safeguards, including real-time classifiers and hierarchical summarization techniques, to detect and mitigate these abuses. By leveraging these technical measures, Anthropic…
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Google Identifies ‘Widespread Data Theft’ Impacting Salesforce-Salesloft Drift Users
Google Threat Intelligence Group shared its findings about a threat actor responsible for stealing Salesforce customer data via Salesloft Drift. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-salesforce-salesloft-drift-data-breach/