Tag: threat
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Hackers Exploit Websites to Inject Malicious Links for SEO Manipulation
A surge in online casino spam is reshaping the dark corners of the internet, with threat actors increasingly hacking websites to embed malicious SEO-boosting links. This evolving tactic aims to promote online gambling sites by hijacking the authority of legitimate websites putting site owners and unsuspecting users alike at risk. Historically, blackhat SEO spam campaigns…
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CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help
Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
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APT Groups Target Construction Firms to Steal RDP, SSH, and Citrix Credentials
Tags: apt, china, citrix, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, group, iran, korea, network, north-korea, organized, ransomware, russia, threatThe construction industry has emerged as a primary target for sophisticated cyber adversaries in 2025, with threat actors including state-sponsored APT groups, ransomware operators, and organized cybercriminal networks actively targeting organizations across the building and construction sector. Nation-state actors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are leveraging the industry’s rapid digital transformation and security…
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CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help
Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
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APT Groups Target Construction Firms to Steal RDP, SSH, and Citrix Credentials
Tags: apt, china, citrix, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, group, iran, korea, network, north-korea, organized, ransomware, russia, threatThe construction industry has emerged as a primary target for sophisticated cyber adversaries in 2025, with threat actors including state-sponsored APT groups, ransomware operators, and organized cybercriminal networks actively targeting organizations across the building and construction sector. Nation-state actors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are leveraging the industry’s rapid digital transformation and security…
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CISOs must prove the business value of cyber, the right metrics can help
Cybersecurity as a business function: “The challenge has been that security is put in the wrong organizational structure, with the CISO reporting to the CIO or CTO or chief digital officer,” Oberlaender says. “Security is not foremost a technology problem. Maybe ten or twenty percent is technology. But the rest is people, process and the…
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Elastic Defend for Windows Vulnerability Allows Threat Actors to Gain Elevated Access
Elastic has released a security advisory addressing a significant vulnerability in Elastic Defend that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges on Windows systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37735, stems from improper preservation of file permissions in the Defend service and poses a serious risk to organizations relying on this endpoint protection platform. Field Details…
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Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem
Tags: access, attack, blockchain, control, crypto, exploit, finance, flaw, guide, intelligence, monitoring, oracle, radius, risk, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the bug was first introduced, the threat landscape of the blockchain ecosystem was significantly different, and arithmetic issues in particular were not widely considered likely vectors for exploitation. As low-hanging attack paths…
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Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory’s homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/googles_ironwood_tpus_ai/
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AI-Powered Cyber Threats Rise: Attackers Target Manufacturing Sector
A comprehensive new report reveals that manufacturing organizations are grappling with a dual challenge: rapidly adopting generative AI technologies while simultaneously defending against attackers who exploit these same platforms and trusted cloud services to launch sophisticated attacks. The findings underscore an urgent need for enhanced security controls as the sector balances innovation with data protection.…
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Online Job Scams Creating News Risks for Corporate Networks
It’s Time for Enterprises to Manage Risks Posed by Compromised Personal Devices Online job scams have evolved beyond consumer fraud and now pose a direct threat to corporate networks. Google warns that scammers are embedding remote access Trojans and info-stealers disguised as interview software or application materials to hack personal devices and ultimately corporate systems.…
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Samsung Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by ‘Landfall’ Spyware
Spyware Targets Samsung Galaxy Devices, Says Unit 42. Hackers used previously unknown commercial spyware dubbed Landfall to surveil the activities of Samsung Galaxy device owners in the Middle East, say security researchers who posit the threat actor has connections to the United Arab Emirates. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/samsung-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-landfall-spyware-a-29963
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NDSS 2025 SCAMMAGNIFIER: Piercing The Veil Of Fraudulent Shopping Website Campaigns
SESSION Session 2C: Phishing & Fraud 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Marzieh Bitaab (Arizona State University), Alireza Karimi (Arizona State University), Zhuoer Lyu (Arizona State University), Adam Oest (Amazon), Dhruv Kuchhal (Amazon), Muhammad Saad (X Corp.), Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University), Ruoyu Wang (Arizona State University), Tiffany Bao (Arizona State University), Yan Shoshitaishvili (Arizona State…
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For OT Cyber Defenders, Lack of Data Is the Biggest Threat
OT Security ‘A Generation Behind Traditional IT’. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/for-ot-cyber-defenders-lack-data-biggest-threat-a-29959
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NDSS 2025 SCAMMAGNIFIER: Piercing The Veil Of Fraudulent Shopping Website Campaigns
SESSION Session 2C: Phishing & Fraud 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Marzieh Bitaab (Arizona State University), Alireza Karimi (Arizona State University), Zhuoer Lyu (Arizona State University), Adam Oest (Amazon), Dhruv Kuchhal (Amazon), Muhammad Saad (X Corp.), Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University), Ruoyu Wang (Arizona State University), Tiffany Bao (Arizona State University), Yan Shoshitaishvili (Arizona State…
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News brief: Nation-state threats evolve and escalate
Tags: threatCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366633955/News-brief-Nation-state-threats-evolve-and-escalate
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AI Accelerating Ransomware Attacks Across Europe
CrowdStrike’s 2025 report reveals how AI is accelerating ransomware attacks and reshaping Europe’s cyber threat landscape. The post Crowdstrike: AI Accelerating Ransomware Attacks Across Europe appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-crowdstrike-ai-ransomware-attacks-europe/
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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New LandFall spyware exploited Samsung zero-day via WhatsApp messages
A threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung’s Android image processing library to deploy a previously unknown spyware called ‘LandFall’ using malicious images sent over WhatsApp. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-landfall-spyware-exploited-samsung-zero-day-via-whatsapp-messages/
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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From Log4j to IIS, China’s Hackers Turn Legacy Bugs into Global Espionage Tools
A China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organization with an aim to establish long-term persistence, as part of broader activity aimed at U.S. entities that are linked to or involved in policy issues.The organization, according to a report from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black teams, is “active…
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Securing the AI-Enabled Enterprise
AI-Driven Security Threats: Moving Beyond the Hype Security does a great job of sensationalizing attacks. This trend was set from a perspective of awareness and edge cases which the industry deals with as attacks and realized perspectives. While this approach leads to discussions around AI-driven cybersecurity threats the risks are hard to comprehend but certain..…
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Google Warns of AI-Driven Threat Escalation in 2026
Google’s 2026 forecast warns that AI has become both the hacker’s greatest weapon and cybersecurity’s most vital defense. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/google-warns-of-ai-driven-threat-escalation-in-2026/
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Securing the AI-Enabled Enterprise
AI-Driven Security Threats: Moving Beyond the Hype Security does a great job of sensationalizing attacks. This trend was set from a perspective of awareness and edge cases which the industry deals with as attacks and realized perspectives. While this approach leads to discussions around AI-driven cybersecurity threats the risks are hard to comprehend but certain..…
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Threat Actors Leverage AI to Accelerate Ransomware Attacks Across Europe
CrowdStrike’s 2025 report reveals how AI is accelerating ransomware attacks and reshaping Europe’s cyber threat landscape. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/threat-actors-leverage-ai-to-accelerate-ransomware-attacks-across-europe/