Tag: threat
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ShinyHunters Develop Sophisticated New Ransomware-as-a-Service Tool
In a significant escalation of the global cyber threat landscape, the notorious threat group ShinyHunters appears to be transitioning from data theft to full-scale ransomware operations. Cybersecurity researchers have identified an early build of a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform dubbed >>ShinySp1d3r,
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RomCom tries dropping a notromantic payload on Ukraine-linked US firms
Target profile focused on Ukraine support: The second major insight from the report concerns victim selection. The targeted firm was not a defense contractor or a government body but a civil engineering company in the US. Its only notable link was past work involving a Ukraine-affiliated city.According to Arctic Wolf, the incident fits RomCom’s broader…
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RomCom tries dropping a notromantic payload on Ukraine-linked US firms
Target profile focused on Ukraine support: The second major insight from the report concerns victim selection. The targeted firm was not a defense contractor or a government body but a civil engineering company in the US. Its only notable link was past work involving a Ukraine-affiliated city.According to Arctic Wolf, the incident fits RomCom’s broader…
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Empathetic policy engineering: The secret to better security behavior and awareness
Tags: awareness, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, framework, group, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, strategy, threat, trainingIn many companies, IT security guidelines encounter resistance because employees perceive them as obstructive or impractical. This makes implementation difficult, undermines effectiveness, and strains collaboration between the security department and business units.As a result, instead of being seen as a partner, cybersecurity is often perceived as a hindrance, a fatal security risk. For CISOs, this…
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Empathetic policy engineering: The secret to better security behavior and awareness
Tags: awareness, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, framework, group, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, strategy, threat, trainingIn many companies, IT security guidelines encounter resistance because employees perceive them as obstructive or impractical. This makes implementation difficult, undermines effectiveness, and strains collaboration between the security department and business units.As a result, instead of being seen as a partner, cybersecurity is often perceived as a hindrance, a fatal security risk. For CISOs, this…
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Neue Gefahr für macOS: DigitStealer stiehlt Daten unbemerkt
Ein aktueller Fund des Threat-Labs-Teams von Jamf zeigt, dass macOS-Nutzer einer neuen Form von Datendiebstahl ausgesetzt sind. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/macos-digitstealer-stiehlt-daten
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Neue Gefahr für macOS: DigitStealer stiehlt Daten unbemerkt
Ein aktueller Fund des Threat-Labs-Teams von Jamf zeigt, dass macOS-Nutzer einer neuen Form von Datendiebstahl ausgesetzt sind. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/macos-digitstealer-stiehlt-daten
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Security researchers caution app developers about risks in using Google Antigravity
CSOonline that the nature of the flaw makes it difficult to mitigate. “Strong identity would not help mitigate this issue, because the actions undertaken by Antigravity are occurring with the identity of the user running the application,” he said. “As far as the operating system can tell, they are indistinguishable. Access management control could possibly…
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Security researchers caution app developers about risks in using Google Antigravity
CSOonline that the nature of the flaw makes it difficult to mitigate. “Strong identity would not help mitigate this issue, because the actions undertaken by Antigravity are occurring with the identity of the user running the application,” he said. “As far as the operating system can tell, they are indistinguishable. Access management control could possibly…
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Security researchers caution app developers about risks in using Google Antigravity
CSOonline that the nature of the flaw makes it difficult to mitigate. “Strong identity would not help mitigate this issue, because the actions undertaken by Antigravity are occurring with the identity of the user running the application,” he said. “As far as the operating system can tell, they are indistinguishable. Access management control could possibly…
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Security researchers caution app developers about risks in using Google Antigravity
CSOonline that the nature of the flaw makes it difficult to mitigate. “Strong identity would not help mitigate this issue, because the actions undertaken by Antigravity are occurring with the identity of the user running the application,” he said. “As far as the operating system can tell, they are indistinguishable. Access management control could possibly…
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Security researchers caution app developers about risks in using Google Antigravity
CSOonline that the nature of the flaw makes it difficult to mitigate. “Strong identity would not help mitigate this issue, because the actions undertaken by Antigravity are occurring with the identity of the user running the application,” he said. “As far as the operating system can tell, they are indistinguishable. Access management control could possibly…
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Asahi says crooks stole data of approximately 2M customers and employees
Asahi says hackers stole data of approximately 2M customers and employees before a ransomware attack crippled its Japan operations. Threat actors hit Asahi with a ransomware attack in September, stealing personal data on about 2 million customers and employees and severely disrupting the company’s operations in Japan. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (commonly called Asahi) is…
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Bloody Wolf Expands Java-based NetSupport RAT Attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been attributed to a cyber attack campaign that has targeted Kyrgyzstan since at least June 2025 with the goal of delivering NetSupport RAT.As of October 2025, the activity has expanded to also single out Uzbekistan, Group-IB researchers Amirbek Kurbanov and Volen Kayo said in a report published…
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Quttera Launches >>Evidence-as-Code<< API to Automate Security Compliance for SOC 2 and PCI DSS v4.0
New API capabilities and AI-powered Threat Encyclopedia eliminate manual audit preparation, providing real-time compliance evidence and instant threat intelligence Quttera today announced major enhancements to its Web Malware Scanner API that transform static security scanning into automated compliance evidence. The update introduces real-time evidence streaming and compliance mapping, directly addressing the manual burden of audit…
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Bloody Wolf Threat Actor Expands Activity Across Central Asia
A new Bloody Wolf campaign exploits legitimate remote-administration software for cyber-attacks on government targets in Central Asia First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bloody-wolf-expands-central-asia/
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Lapsus$ Hunters Register 40+ Domains Impersonating Zendesk Environments
ReliaQuest’s Threat Research team has uncovered a significant new campaign from the notorious threat collective >>Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters,
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ServiceNow is in talks to buy identity security firm Veza for over $1 billion: report
Tags: access, ai, automation, control, data, identity, intelligence, microsoft, okta, oracle, risk, risk-management, threat, toolCustomer integration questions: For those joint customers, the acquisition would mean significant changes in how the two systems work together. Enterprises using both ServiceNow and Veza today run them as separate systems. Integration would allow ServiceNow’s AI agents to natively query and enforce access policies based on Veza’s permission intelligence, without customers building custom connections.That…
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DORA Threat Intelligence: Von Vorschrift zur praktischen Resilienz
Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) im Jahr 2025 haben deutsche Finanzinstitute ein einheitliches Regelwerk für digitale Stabilität erhalten. DORA gilt für Banken, Versicherungen, Investmentgesellschaften, Zahlungsdienstleister und deren IT-Dienstleister. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cloud-security/dora-threat-intelligence
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Von LLM generierte Malware wird immer besser
Forscher tricksen Chatbots aus, stoßen aber auf unzuverlässige Ergebnisse.Cyberkriminelle versuchen bereits seit geraumer Zeit, mit Hilfe von Large Language Models (LLM) ihre dunklen Machenschaften zu automatisieren. Aber können sie schon bösartigen Code generieren, der ‘marktreif” und bereit für den operativen Einsatz ist? Das wollten die Forschenden von Netskope Threat Labs herausfinden, indem sie Chatbots dazu…
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Why Cyber Defenses Continue to Lag at Rural Hospitals
Rural and small community hospitals are continuing to face growing cyber challenges driven by limited and shrinking resources, staffing shortages, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, said Jackie Mattingly, senior director at privacy and security consulting firm Clearwater. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/cyber-defenses-continue-to-lag-at-rural-hospitals-i-5503
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NDSS 2025 VoiceRadar: Voice Deepfake Detection Using Micro-Frequency And Compositional Analysis
Session 4B: Audio Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER VoiceRadar: Voice Deepfake Detection using Micro-Frequency And Compositional Analysis Recent advancements in synthetic speech generation, including text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) models, allow the generation of convincing synthetic voices, often referred to as audio deepfakes. These deepfakes pose a growing threat as adversaries can use…
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NDSS 2025 VoiceRadar: Voice Deepfake Detection Using Micro-Frequency And Compositional Analysis
Session 4B: Audio Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER VoiceRadar: Voice Deepfake Detection using Micro-Frequency And Compositional Analysis Recent advancements in synthetic speech generation, including text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) models, allow the generation of convincing synthetic voices, often referred to as audio deepfakes. These deepfakes pose a growing threat as adversaries can use…
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Congress Moves to Defend Undersea Cables From China, Russia
Bipartisan Bill Seeks Sanctions and Industry Coordination to Defend Undersea Cables. A bipartisan Senate bill would elevate the U.S. role in defending subsea fiber-optic cables against mounting threats from China and Russia, expanding diplomatic efforts, industry coordination and sanctions targeting foreign sabotage of the internet’s global backbone. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/congress-moves-to-defend-undersea-cables-from-china-russia-a-30147
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For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish
RomCom malware used the SocGholish fake update loader to deliver Mythic Agent to a U.S. civil engineering firm. In September 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs observed RomCom threat actors delivering the Mythic Agent via SocGholish to a U.S. company. The researchers noticed that the payload executed about 10 minutes after initial exploitation, marking the first time…
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How Thales Protects Online Retail Sites from AI-Driven Bots during Holiday Shopping Season
Every November and December, online retailers gear up for their biggest revenue surge of the year. But while the traffic and transactions climb, so does the threat level. Cybercriminals know exactly when customer activity (and the pressure on retail systems) is at its highest and they’re automating their attacks to exploit it. Why retailers are……
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How Thales Protects Online Retail Sites from AI-Driven Bots during Holiday Shopping Season
Every November and December, online retailers gear up for their biggest revenue surge of the year. But while the traffic and transactions climb, so does the threat level. Cybercriminals know exactly when customer activity (and the pressure on retail systems) is at its highest and they’re automating their attacks to exploit it. Why retailers are……