Tag: network
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Youtube-Geisternetzwerk Wie Check Point Research dazu beitrug, 3000 bösartige Videos zu entfernen, die Malware verbreiteten
Check Point Software Technologies hat ein groß angelegtes Cyber-Netzwerk aufgedeckt, das sich in einem der vertrauenswürdigsten Bereiche des Internets versteckte: Youtube. Was wie harmlose Tutorials und Software-Demos aussah, entpuppte sich als ausgeklügeltes Netzwerk zur Verbreitung von Malware, bekannt als das . Zusammengefasst: Check Point Research deckte das Youtube-Ghost-Network auf, eine groß angelegte Malware-Verbreitungsaktion, […] First…
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The Enterprise Edge is Under Siege
Not too long ago, the shimmering perimeter of enterprise networks was seen as an impregnable citadel, manned by fortresses of firewalls, bastions of secure gateways, and sentinels of intrusion prevention. Yet, in the cruel irony of our digital age, these sentinels themselves are now being subverted. When Defenses Become the Weapon Since the beginning of……
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The Enterprise Edge is Under Siege
Not too long ago, the shimmering perimeter of enterprise networks was seen as an impregnable citadel, manned by fortresses of firewalls, bastions of secure gateways, and sentinels of intrusion prevention. Yet, in the cruel irony of our digital age, these sentinels themselves are now being subverted. When Defenses Become the Weapon Since the beginning of……
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The Enterprise Edge is Under Siege
Not too long ago, the shimmering perimeter of enterprise networks was seen as an impregnable citadel, manned by fortresses of firewalls, bastions of secure gateways, and sentinels of intrusion prevention. Yet, in the cruel irony of our digital age, these sentinels themselves are now being subverted. When Defenses Become the Weapon Since the beginning of……
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3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
A malicious network of YouTube accounts has been observed publishing and promoting videos that lead to malware downloads, essentially abusing the popularity and trust associated with the video hosting platform for propagating malicious payloads.Active since 2021, the network has published more than 3,000 malicious videos to date, with the volume of such videos tripling since…
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YouTube Ghost Malware Campaign: Over 3,000 Infected Videos Target Users
Check Point Research has uncovered a massive malware distribution operation called the YouTube Ghost Network, featuring over 3,000 malicious videos designed to infect unsuspecting users with dangerous information-stealing malware. This sophisticated cybercriminal network has been operating since at least 2021, with activity tripling in 2025 as threat actors increasingly exploit YouTube’s trusted platform to bypass…
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Iran’s MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/iran_muddywater_campaign/
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Iran’s MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/iran_muddywater_campaign/
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Breach Roundup: the Qilin Hack That Wasn’t
Also, Envoy Air Confirms Data Compromise Following Clop Extortion Campaign. This week, Qilin didn’t hack a Spanish tax agency, Nexperia standoff, Envoy Air confirmed a data compromise, Experian Netherlands fined 2.7M euros, ToolShell used to breach global networks, flaws in TP-Link Omada and Festa VPN routers and a New York firm settled a cybersecurity investigation.…
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NDSS 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025, co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 Afternoon, Session 3
Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPERS Vision: Retiring Scenarios — Enabling Ecologically Valid Measurement in Phishing Detection Research with PhishyMailbox Oliver D. Reithmaier (Leibniz University Hannover), Thorsten Thiel (Atmina Solutions), Anne Vonderheide (Leibniz University Hannover), Markus Dürmuth (Leibniz University Hannover) Vision: Towards True User-Centric Design for Digital Identity Wallets Yorick Last (Paderborn University), Patricia Arias Cabarcos…
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When “It’s Always DNS” Becomes Your Security Advantage
Every network engineer knows the refrain: “It’s always DNS.” When websites won’t load, applications fail to connect, or mysterious outages emerge, the Domain Name System”, the internet’s essential address book”, is usually involved. For years, this made DNS a source of troubleshooting frustration. But as Infoblox demonstrated in their presentations to Security Field Day, there’s…
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DTTS – Zero Trust DNS Enforcement: Policy Violation Management
In a default-deny world, where only verified sources and verified destinations are allowed, which require a successful policy-allowed DNS resolution, many modern threats are mitigated, and there’s demonstrable value in choosing this path, including being able to enforce “My network, my rules” approach to egress control. However, in this world where existing applications need to…
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NDSS 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025, co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Keynote
Tags: computer, conference, data, encryption, mobile, network, password, privacy, risk, strategy, technologyAuthor, Creator & Presenter: Dr. Patrick Gage Kelley PhD Dr. Patrick Gage Kelley is the Head of Research Strategy for Trust & Safety at Google. He has worked on projects that help us better understand how people think about their data and safety online. These include projects on the use and design of user-friendly privacy…
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Raphael Tsitrin verstärkt Versa Networks
Raphael Tsitrin, Sales Director Enterprise bei Versa NetworksVersa Networks baut sein Team in der DACH-Region weiter aus: Mit Raphael Tsitrin als neuem Sales Director Enterprise nimmt der SASE-Spezialist strategische Accounts noch stärker ins Visier. Tsitrin wird in dieser Rolle die Strategie für mittelständische sowie Enterprise-Grade Unternehmen in Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz sowie in Mittel- und…
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Researchers expose large-scale YouTube malware distribution network
Check Point researchers have uncovered, mapped and helped set back a stealthy, large-scale malware distribution operation on YouTube they dubbed the >>YouTube Ghost … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/23/youtube-malware-distribution-network-ghost/
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Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software
Check Point helps exorcise vast ‘Ghost Network’ that used fake tutorials to push infostealers First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/youtube_ghost_network_malware/
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Wireshark 4.6.0 brings major updates for packet analysis and decryption
If you’ve ever used Wireshark to dig into network traffic you know how vital even small upgrades can be. With version 4.6.0 the team behind the open-source network protocol … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/23/wireshark-4-6-0-released/
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Wireshark 4.6.0 brings major updates for packet analysis and decryption
If you’ve ever used Wireshark to dig into network traffic you know how vital even small upgrades can be. With version 4.6.0 the team behind the open-source network protocol … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/23/wireshark-4-6-0-released/
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“Jingle Thief” Hackers Exploit Cloud Infrastructure to Steal Millions in Gift Cards
Tags: cloud, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, exploit, group, hacker, infrastructure, network, phishing, service, smishingCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud.”Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers…
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F5 Networks Breach: A Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Cybersecurity
When a foundational technology provider like F5 Networks, whose systems power government agencies, critical infrastructure, and enterprises worldwide, suffers a cyber breach, the ripple effects extend far beyond a single organization. This latest attack has once again exposed the growing vulnerabilities within global technology supply chains and the urgent need for unified, proactive cybersecurity visibility.…
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F5 Networks Breach: A Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Cybersecurity
When a foundational technology provider like F5 Networks, whose systems power government agencies, critical infrastructure, and enterprises worldwide, suffers a cyber breach, the ripple effects extend far beyond a single organization. This latest attack has once again exposed the growing vulnerabilities within global technology supply chains and the urgent need for unified, proactive cybersecurity visibility.…
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NDSS 2025 Symposium On Usable Security And Privacy (USEC) 2025, Paper Session 1
Tags: conference, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, international, LLM, network, password, phishing, privacy, technologyAuthors, Creators & Presenters: PAPERS On-demand RFID: Improving Privacy, Security, and User Trust in RFID Activation through Physically-Intuitive Design Youngwook Do (JPMorganChase and Georgia Institute of Technology), Tingyu Cheng (Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Notre Dame), Yuxi Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology and Northeastern University), HyunJoo Oh(Georgia Institute of Technology), Daniel J. Wilson…
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Is for Security Leaders, Too
Think you know all there is to know about cybersecurity? Guess again. Shadow AI is challenging security leaders with many of the same issues raised by other “shadow” technologies. Only this time, it’s evolving at breakneck speed. Key takeaways: The vast majority of organizations (89%) are either using AI or piloting it. Shadow AI lurks…
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‘I am not a robot’: Russian hackers use fake CAPTCHA lures to deploy espionage tools
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, captcha, ceo, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, espionage, exploit, group, hacker, incident response, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, russia, strategy, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustEvolving tactics and strategies: Analysts said ColdRiver, which for years focused on credential theft and email account compromise, is shifting toward multi-stage intrusions that rely on users to execute malicious code.By using ClickFix pages that mimic CAPTCHA verification screens, the group can bypass email security filters and deliver malware directly to victims’ devices, increasing the…
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Signal Shift in Tactics
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be preparing to launch an extortion-as-a-service model, according to Palo Alto Networks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scattered-lapsus-hunters-shift/
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Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) Notice
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update that fixed the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287); Because WSUS’s GetCookie does not perform type verification when processing objects, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote code execution by deserializing malicious data to control the target server. The CVSS score…The…
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Beware of the Risk of Open-Source License Changes
It is not uncommon for open source licenses to change. When licenses change, users often need to re-evaluate compliance risks. Take Redis as an example. Redis is a popular key-value store whose open source license has undergone changes from BSD to SSPL and then to AGPL, which has caused widespread discussion and controversy in the…The…