Tag: threat
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Hackers Exploit Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerabilities to Spread MetaRAT Malware
LAC’s Cyber Emergency Center has identified a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign targeting Japanese shipping and transportation companies. The operation, orchestrated by a China-based threat actor in April 2025, leveraged critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to deploy >>MetaRAT,
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Hackers Exploit Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerabilities to Spread MetaRAT Malware
LAC’s Cyber Emergency Center has identified a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign targeting Japanese shipping and transportation companies. The operation, orchestrated by a China-based threat actor in April 2025, leveraged critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to deploy >>MetaRAT,
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How to Streamline Zero Trust Using the Shared Signals Framework
Zero Trust helps organizations shrink their attack surface and respond to threats faster, but many still struggle to implement it because their security tools don’t share signals reliably. 88% of organizations admit they’ve suffered significant challenges in trying to implement such approaches, according to Accenture. When products can’t communicate, real-time access decisions break down.The First…
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Google Adds Layered Defenses to Chrome to Block Indirect Prompt Injection Threats
Google on Monday announced a set of new security features in Chrome, following the company’s addition of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the web browser.To that end, the tech giant said it has implemented layered defenses to make it harder for bad actors to exploit indirect prompt injections that arise as a result of…
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How to Streamline Zero Trust Using the Shared Signals Framework
Zero Trust helps organizations shrink their attack surface and respond to threats faster, but many still struggle to implement it because their security tools don’t share signals reliably. 88% of organizations admit they’ve suffered significant challenges in trying to implement such approaches, according to Accenture. When products can’t communicate, real-time access decisions break down.The First…
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Google Adds Layered Defenses to Chrome to Block Indirect Prompt Injection Threats
Google on Monday announced a set of new security features in Chrome, following the company’s addition of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the web browser.To that end, the tech giant said it has implemented layered defenses to make it harder for bad actors to exploit indirect prompt injections that arise as a result of…
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How to Streamline Zero Trust Using the Shared Signals Framework
Zero Trust helps organizations shrink their attack surface and respond to threats faster, but many still struggle to implement it because their security tools don’t share signals reliably. 88% of organizations admit they’ve suffered significant challenges in trying to implement such approaches, according to Accenture. When products can’t communicate, real-time access decisions break down.The First…
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New BYOVD loader behind DeadLock ransomware attack
Cisco Talos has uncovered a new DeadLock ransomware campaign using a previously unknown BYOVD loader to exploit a Baidu Antivirus driver vulnerability, letting threat actors disable EDR defenses and escalate attacks. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/byovd-loader-deadlock-ransomware/
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New BYOVD loader behind DeadLock ransomware attack
Cisco Talos has uncovered a new DeadLock ransomware campaign using a previously unknown BYOVD loader to exploit a Baidu Antivirus driver vulnerability, letting threat actors disable EDR defenses and escalate attacks. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/byovd-loader-deadlock-ransomware/
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STAC6565 Targets Canada in 80% of Attacks as Gold Blade Deploys QWCrypt Ransomware
Canadian organizations have emerged as the focus of a targeted cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat activity cluster known as STAC6565.Cybersecurity company Sophos said it investigated almost 40 intrusions linked to the threat actor between February 2024 and August 2025. The campaign is assessed with high confidence to share overlaps with a hacking group known…
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Ignoring AI in the threat chain could be a costly mistake, experts warn
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ceo, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, government, hacker, skills, sophos, technology, threat, toolHow CISOs could cut through the confusion: The conflicting narratives around AI threats leave many CISOs struggling to reconcile hype with operational reality.Given the emergence of AI-enabled cyber threats amid pushback from some cyber experts who contend these threats are not real, Sophos CEO Joe Levy tells CSO that AI is becoming a “Rorschach test,…
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Manufacturing fares better against ransomware, with room for improvement
Skilled labor shortages and inadequate protection facilitate attacks More than four in 10 manufacturing companies (43%) cited a lack of expertise as the reason for the cyber incident. Unknown security vulnerabilities were mentioned by 42%, and a lack of protective measures by 41%.Furthermore, the results show that ransomware attacks continue to place a heavy burden…
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AI-driven threats are heading straight for the factory floor
In this Help Net Security interview, Natalia Oropeza, Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens, discusses how industrial organizations are adapting to a shift in cyber risk … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/09/natalia-oropeza-siemens-industrial-cyber-capability-shift/
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AI-driven threats are heading straight for the factory floor
In this Help Net Security interview, Natalia Oropeza, Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens, discusses how industrial organizations are adapting to a shift in cyber risk … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/09/natalia-oropeza-siemens-industrial-cyber-capability-shift/
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Manufacturing fares better against ransomware, with room for improvement
Skilled labor shortages and inadequate protection facilitate attacks More than four in 10 manufacturing companies (43%) cited a lack of expertise as the reason for the cyber incident. Unknown security vulnerabilities were mentioned by 42%, and a lack of protective measures by 41%.Furthermore, the results show that ransomware attacks continue to place a heavy burden…
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Manufacturing fares better against ransomware, with room for improvement
Skilled labor shortages and inadequate protection facilitate attacks More than four in 10 manufacturing companies (43%) cited a lack of expertise as the reason for the cyber incident. Unknown security vulnerabilities were mentioned by 42%, and a lack of protective measures by 41%.Furthermore, the results show that ransomware attacks continue to place a heavy burden…
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The simple shift that turns threat intel from noise into real insight
In this Help Net Security video, Alankrit Chona, CTO at Simbian, explains how security teams can put threat intelligence to work in a way that supports detection, response, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/09/threat-intelligence-architecture-video/
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The simple shift that turns threat intel from noise into real insight
In this Help Net Security video, Alankrit Chona, CTO at Simbian, explains how security teams can put threat intelligence to work in a way that supports detection, response, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/09/threat-intelligence-architecture-video/
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Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell
Attacks against CVE-2025-55182, which began almost immediately after public disclosure last week, have increased as more threat actors take advantage of the flaw. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/exploitation-activity-ramps-react2shell
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Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell
Attacks against CVE-2025-55182, which began almost immediately after public disclosure last week, have increased as more threat actors take advantage of the flaw. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/exploitation-activity-ramps-react2shell
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Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell
Attacks against CVE-2025-55182, which began almost immediately after public disclosure last week, have increased as more threat actors take advantage of the flaw. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/exploitation-activity-ramps-react2shell
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How AI-Enabled Adversaries Are Breaking the Threat Intel Playbook
The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing another seismic shift, one driven not just by AI-enabled attackers but by a structural imbalance in how defenders and adversaries innovate. John Watters traces the evolution of modern cyber intelligence from its earliest days to the new era of AI-accelerated attacks, showing how past lessons are repeating themselves at.. First…
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When it comes to security resilience, cheaper isn’t always better
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cctv, cio, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, government, hacker, healthcare, incident, incident response, jobs, leak, malicious, metric, mfa, monitoring, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, service, soc, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe hidden trade-offs with resilience: Savings don’t erase risk. They shift it. What looks efficient today becomes exposed tomorrow. Cyber resilience is often the first casualty.Supply chain fragility: Cyber threats thrive on concentration. When procurement consolidates digital services into a single provider to save money, a single breach can have a ripple effect across your…
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How AI-Enabled Adversaries Are Breaking the Threat Intel Playbook
The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing another seismic shift, one driven not just by AI-enabled attackers but by a structural imbalance in how defenders and adversaries innovate. John Watters traces the evolution of modern cyber intelligence from its earliest days to the new era of AI-accelerated attacks, showing how past lessons are repeating themselves at.. First…
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When it comes to security resilience, cheaper isn’t always better
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cctv, cio, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, government, hacker, healthcare, incident, incident response, jobs, leak, malicious, metric, mfa, monitoring, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, service, soc, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe hidden trade-offs with resilience: Savings don’t erase risk. They shift it. What looks efficient today becomes exposed tomorrow. Cyber resilience is often the first casualty.Supply chain fragility: Cyber threats thrive on concentration. When procurement consolidates digital services into a single provider to save money, a single breach can have a ripple effect across your…
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New JS#SMUGGLER Campaign Drops NetSupport RAT Through Infected Sites
Securonix Threat Research details the complex JS#SMUGGLER campaign, a three-step web attack using obfuscated JavaScript and hidden HTA files to install the NetSupport RAT on user Windows desktops, granting hackers full remote control and persistent access. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/jssmuggler-netsupport-rat-infected-sites/
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Ransomware peaked in 2023 prior to law enforcement actions
U.S. Treasury report shows drop in threat activity in the wake of aggressive takedown efforts. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ransomware-peaked-2023-enforcement-decrease/807291/
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Space Bears Ransomware Claims Comcast Data Theft Through Quasar Breach
Space Bears ransowmare claims it obtained Comcast files through a breach at Quasar Inc, with threats to publish the data and separate leaks promised from Quasar itself. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/space-bears-ransomware-comcast-quasar-breach/
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How Agentic BAS AI Turns Threat Headlines Into Defense Strategies
Picus Security explains why relying on LLM-generated attack scripts is risky and how an agentic approach maps real threat intel to safe, validated TTPs. Their breakdown shows how teams can turn headline threats into reliable defense checks without unsafe automation. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-agentic-bas-ai-turns-threat-headlines-into-defense-strategies/
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AWS: China-linked threat actors weaponized React2Shell hours after disclosure
Multiple China-linked threat actors began exploiting the CVE-2025-55182, aka React2Shell flaw, within hours, AWS Security warns. Multiple China-linked threat actors began exploiting the CVE-2025-55182, also known as the React2Shell flaw, within hours, according to AWS Security. The researchers confirmed that this vulnerability doesn’t affect AWS services, however they opted to share threat intelligence data to…