Tag: threat
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Free VPN Apps Found Riddled With Security Flaws
A new study by Zimperium has revealed serious risks in free VPN apps, exposing users to privacy threats and security flaws First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/free-vpn-apps-security-flaws/
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Free VPN Apps Found Riddled With Security Flaws
A new study by Zimperium has revealed serious risks in free VPN apps, exposing users to privacy threats and security flaws First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/free-vpn-apps-security-flaws/
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Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact
Penetration testing is critical to uncovering real-world security weaknesses. With the shift into continuous testing and validation, it is time we automate the delivery of these results.The way results are delivered hasn’t kept up with today’s fast-moving threat landscape. Too often, findings are packaged into static reports, buried in PDFs or spreadsheets, and handed off…
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Google Mandiant Probes New Oracle Extortion Wave Possibly Linked to Cl0p Ransomware
Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have disclosed that they are tracking a new cluster of activity possibly linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as Cl0p.The malicious activity involves sending extortion emails to executives at various organizations and claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite.”This activity began…
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Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact
Penetration testing is critical to uncovering real-world security weaknesses. With the shift into continuous testing and validation, it is time we automate the delivery of these results.The way results are delivered hasn’t kept up with today’s fast-moving threat landscape. Too often, findings are packaged into static reports, buried in PDFs or spreadsheets, and handed off…
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Google Mandiant Probes New Oracle Extortion Wave Possibly Linked to Cl0p Ransomware
Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have disclosed that they are tracking a new cluster of activity possibly linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as Cl0p.The malicious activity involves sending extortion emails to executives at various organizations and claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite.”This activity began…
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How to Close Threat Detection Gaps: Your SOC’s Action Plan
Running a SOC often feels like drowning in alerts. Every morning, dashboards light up with thousands of signals; some urgent, many irrelevant. The job is to find the real threats fast enough to keep cases from piling up, prevent analyst burnout, and maintain client or leadership confidence.The toughest challenges, however, aren’t the alerts that can…
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Expired US Cyber Law Puts Data Sharing and Threat Response at Risk
Experts argued that the lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could have far-reaching consequences in US national cyber defenses First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/expired-cisa-2015-us-intelligence/
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Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions – Trend Analysis Report
Nisos Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions – Trend Analysis Report Identifying potential insider threats requires vigilance and proactive monitoring of key behavioral, technical, and organizational indicators… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/insider-threat-intelligence-solutions-trend-analysis-report/
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Empower Your SOC Teams with Efficient NHIDR
How Can Non-Human Identities Revolutionize Cybersecurity? Where cyber threats increasingly target machine identities, how can organizations adapt their security strategies to manage these Non-Human Identities (NHIs) effectively? NHIs serve as the backbone for robust cybersecurity, enhancing the security posture of diverse sectors like financial services, healthcare, travel, and DevOps. For organizations utilizing cloud environments, effective……
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Small Businesses and Ransomware: Navigating the AI Era Threat
Ransomware has evolved from a niche hacker tactic into a mainstream threat, and small businesses are increasingly in… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/small-businesses-ransomware-the-ai-era-threat/
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Shutdown Snares Federal Cybersecurity Personnel
US Cyber Defense Agency Faces 65% Furlough Rate Amid Federal Shutdown. The U.S. federal government shutdown has slashed staff at the nation’s cyber defense agency and other key cyber entities, freezing daily operations, stalling grants and weakening threat coordination as state and local systems brace for lapses in federal support. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Chinese APT group Phantom Taurus targets gov and telecom organizations
mssq.bat that connects to an SQL database using the sa (system administrator) ID with a password previously obtained by the attackers. It then performs a dynamic search for specific keywords specified in the script, saving the results as a CSV file.”The threat actor used this method to search for documents of interest and information related…
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Russia, Chinese Hacking Buffets Europe
ENISA: Nation-State Hacking ‘Steadily Intensified’ Over 12-Month Period. Nearly every member government of the European Union experienced a cyberattack from a nation-state hacker in the 12 months ending in July, primarily from Russian and Chinese threat actors who steadily intensified hacking, says the European cyber agency. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/russia-chinese-hacking-buffets-europe-a-29616
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Top Strategies for Effective and Secure Identity Risk Monitoring
Today, digital footprints are as significant as physical ones, which is why the importance of secure identity risk monitoring cannot be overstated. With the constant evolution of cyber threats, it’s crucial to implement robust strategies to protect not only personal but also professional identities from potential risks. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, staying one step……
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Top Strategies for Effective and Secure Identity Risk Monitoring
Today, digital footprints are as significant as physical ones, which is why the importance of secure identity risk monitoring cannot be overstated. With the constant evolution of cyber threats, it’s crucial to implement robust strategies to protect not only personal but also professional identities from potential risks. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, staying one step……
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Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks
The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/intel-and-amd-trusted-enclaves-the-backbone-of-network-security-fall-to-physical-attacks/
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Docker APIs Targeted FireTail Blog
Sep 30, 2025 – Lina Romero – In 2025’s fast-moving cyber landscape, attacks are everywhere and AI and APIs are the biggest targets. We’ve spoken before about hackers exploiting Docker Swarm to launch cryptomining attacks, but now attackers are using Docker APIs for other malicious purposes. It started this June. Trend Micro noticed abnormal activity…
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MCP Developer Executes Sneaky Heel Turn by Copying Emails
Backdoored NPM Module Sent Sensitive Mail Copies to Threat Actor. A patient hacker hooked victims by building a reliable tool integrated into hundreds of developer workflows that connects artificial intelligence agents with an email platform. The unidentified software engineer published 15 flawless versions until he slipped in code copying users’ emails. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Watchdog: Cyber threat information-sharing program’s future uncertain with expected expiration of 2015 law
A DHS inspector general report found that CISA doesn’t have plans for what to do with AIS if the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act lapses. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/watchdog-cyber-threat-information-sharing-programs-future-uncertain-with-expected-expiration-of-2015-law/
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Nearly 50,000 Cisco firewalls vulnerable to actively exploited flaws
Roughly 48,800 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) appliances exposed on the public web are vulnerable to two vulnerabilities actively leveraged by hackers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nearly-50-000-cisco-firewalls-vulnerable-to-actively-exploited-flaws/
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The Web’s Bot Problem Isn’t Getting Better: Insights From the 2025 Global Bot Security Report
Over 60% of websites remain unprotected against basic bots in 2025. Explore key findings from DataDome’s Global Bot Security Report to see how LLM crawlers and sophisticated automation are reshaping online threat landscapes and what businesses can do to defend themselves. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/the-webs-bot-problem-isnt-getting-better-insights-from-the-2025-global-bot-security-report/
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Patchwork APT: Leveraging PowerShell to Create Scheduled Tasks and Deploy Final Payload
Patchwork, the advanced persistent threat (APT) actor also known as Dropping Elephant, Monsoon, and Hangover Group, has been observed deploying a new PowerShell-based loader that abuses Windows Scheduled Tasks to execute its final payload. Active since at least 2015 and focused on political and military intelligence across South and Southeast Asia, Patchwork is renowned for…
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New Chinese Nexus APT Group Targeting Organizations to Deploy NET-STAR Malware Suite
China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group Phantom Taurus has intensified espionage operations against government and telecommunications targets across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, deploying a newly discovered .NET malware suite called NET-STAR. First tracked by Unit 42 in June 2023 as cluster CL-STA-0043 and temporarily designated TGR-STA-0043 (Operation Diplomatic Specter) in May 2024, the…
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Hackers Use Cellular Router API to Send Malicious SMS with Weaponized Links
The monitoring and analysis of vulnerability exploitations are among the primary responsibilities of Sekoia.io’s Threat Detection & Research (TDR) team. Using honeypots, the team monitors traffic targeting edge devices and internet-facing applications. On 22 July 2025, suspicious network traces appeared in our honeypots, reveals that a cellular router’s API was exploited to deliver smishing campaigns…
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Urgent: China-Linked Hackers Exploit New VMware Zero-Day Since October 2024
A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor called UNC5174, according to NVISO Labs.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), a local privilege escalation bug affecting the following versions -VMware Cloud Foundation…
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Feed mit Indicators of Compromise von Artic Wolf für eigene Sicherheitslösungen
Arctic Wolf gibt Erweiterungen für Arctic-Wolf-Threat-Intelligence-Plus bekannt. Mit diesen haben Unternehmen die Möglichkeit, denselben hochwertigen Feed mit Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) einzusetzen, den auch das KI-gestützte Security-Operations-Center (SOC) von Arctic Wolf nutzt und zwar direkt in ihren vorhandenen Sicherheitslösungen. Durch das Update von Threat-Intelligence-Plus werden Unternehmen dabei unterstützt, sich proaktiv vor adaptiven Cyberbedrohungen zu […]…