Tag: threat
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What to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid clouds
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, business, cisco, cloud, compliance, computing, control, corporate, data, defense, encryption, endpoint, framework, gartner, google, governance, government, group, guide, ibm, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, kubernetes, law, malware, metric, microsoft, monitoring, network, oracle, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, saas, service, software, technology, threat, tool, veeam, vmware, vulnerability, zero-trusthybrid cloud data protection buyer’s guide today!] In this buyer’s guide Data protection for hybrid clouds explainedWhy hybrid clouds need data protectionWhat to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid cloudsMajor trends in data protection for hybrid cloudsLeading vendors for data protection of hybrid cloudsWhat to ask before buying data protection for hybrid…
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What to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid clouds
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, business, cisco, cloud, compliance, computing, control, corporate, data, defense, encryption, endpoint, framework, gartner, google, governance, government, group, guide, ibm, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, kubernetes, law, malware, metric, microsoft, monitoring, network, oracle, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, saas, service, software, technology, threat, tool, veeam, vmware, vulnerability, zero-trusthybrid cloud data protection buyer’s guide today!] In this buyer’s guide Data protection for hybrid clouds explainedWhy hybrid clouds need data protectionWhat to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid cloudsMajor trends in data protection for hybrid cloudsLeading vendors for data protection of hybrid cloudsWhat to ask before buying data protection for hybrid…
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Hackers Claim Massive Salesforce Breach: 1 Billion Records Stolen
A new cybercriminal conglomerate known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has emerged as a significant threat to global organizations, claiming responsibility for massive data breaches targeting Salesforce customer tenants. The group, also referred to as SP1D3R HUNTERS or SLSH, has reportedly stolen over one billion Salesforce records across two separate extortion campaigns, marking one of the…
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What to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid clouds
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, business, cisco, cloud, compliance, computing, control, corporate, data, defense, encryption, endpoint, framework, gartner, google, governance, government, group, guide, ibm, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, kubernetes, law, malware, metric, microsoft, monitoring, network, oracle, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, saas, service, software, technology, threat, tool, veeam, vmware, vulnerability, zero-trusthybrid cloud data protection buyer’s guide today!] In this buyer’s guide Data protection for hybrid clouds explainedWhy hybrid clouds need data protectionWhat to look for in a data protection platform for hybrid cloudsMajor trends in data protection for hybrid cloudsLeading vendors for data protection of hybrid cloudsWhat to ask before buying data protection for hybrid…
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SonicWall SSLVPN Targeted After Hackers Breach All Customer Firewall Backups
Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress have detected a widespread attack campaign targeting SonicWall SSL VPN devices across multiple customer environments, with over 100 accounts compromised since early October. The attacks appear coordinated and sophisticated, with threat actors rapidly authenticating into multiple accounts using what appears to be valid credentials rather than brute-force techniques. Cyber breach alert…
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SonicWall SSLVPN Targeted After Hackers Breach All Customer Firewall Backups
Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress have detected a widespread attack campaign targeting SonicWall SSL VPN devices across multiple customer environments, with over 100 accounts compromised since early October. The attacks appear coordinated and sophisticated, with threat actors rapidly authenticating into multiple accounts using what appears to be valid credentials rather than brute-force techniques. Cyber breach alert…
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Astaroth Banking Malware Exploits GitHub for Hosting Configuration Files
McAfee’s Threat Research team recently uncovered a sophisticated new Astaroth campaign that represents a significant evolution in malware infrastructure tactics. This latest variant has abandoned traditional command-and-control (C2) server dependencies in favor of leveraging GitHub repositories to host critical malware configurations. The Astaroth banking malware has evolved beyond conventional C2 server architectures by exploiting GitHub’s…
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CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN 2025 Team Awards Finalists: Celebrating Technology and Cybersecurity Excellence Across the Southeast Asia region
About CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN AwardsThe CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN Awards are flagship programs by Foundry’s CIO and CSO brands, recognizing technology leadership excellence across the region. These prestigious awards celebrate individuals and teams who demonstrate innovation, measurable business value, and transformative impact in their organizations and industries.Estelle QuekEditorial Director, CIO and CSO ASEAN
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CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN 2025 Team Awards Finalists: Celebrating Technology and Cybersecurity Excellence Across the Southeast Asia region
About CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN AwardsThe CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN Awards are flagship programs by Foundry’s CIO and CSO brands, recognizing technology leadership excellence across the region. These prestigious awards celebrate individuals and teams who demonstrate innovation, measurable business value, and transformative impact in their organizations and industries.Estelle QuekEditorial Director, CIO and CSO ASEAN
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Threat Actors Exploit Discord Webhooks for C2 via npm, PyPI, and Ruby Packages
Threat actors are increasingly abusing Discord webhooks as covert command-and-control (C2) channels inside open-source packages, enabling stealthy exfiltration of secrets, host telemetry, and developer environment data without standing up bespoke infrastructure. Socket’s Threat Research Team has documented active abuse across npm, PyPI, and RubyGems, where hard-coded Discord webhook URLs act as write-only sinks to siphon…
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CVE-2025-11371: Unpatched zero-day in Gladinet CentreStack, Triofox under attack
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-11371 in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products. Threat actors are exploiting the local File Inclusion (LFI) flaw CVE-2025-11371, a zero-day in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox. A local user can exploit the issue to access system files without authentication. Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox are enterprise file-sharing and cloud…
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Attackers exploit valid logins in SonicWall SSL VPN compromise
Huntress warns of widespread SonicWall SSL VPN breaches, with attackers using valid credentials to access multiple accounts rapidly. Cybersecurity firm Huntress warned of a widespread compromise of SonicWall SSL VPNs, with threat actors using valid credentials to access multiple customer accounts rapidly. >>As of October 10, Huntress has observed widespread compromise of SonicWall SSLVPN devices…
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Hackers Turn Velociraptor DFIR Tool Into Weapon in LockBit Ransomware Attacks
Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 (aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem), which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware.The threat actor’s use of the security utility was documented by Sophos last month. It’s assessed that the…
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Hackers Turn Velociraptor DFIR Tool Into Weapon in LockBit Ransomware Attacks
Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 (aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem), which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware.The threat actor’s use of the security utility was documented by Sophos last month. It’s assessed that the…
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New Stealit Malware Exploits Node.js Extensions to Target Windows Systems
Security researchers have identified a new, active campaign of the Stealit malware that uses an experimental Node.js feature to infect Windows systems. According to a report from FortiGuard Labs, threat actors are leveraging Node.js’s Single Executable Application (SEA) functionality to package and distribute their malicious payloads. This updated tactic marks a shift from previous Stealit…
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CISA in Disarray Amid Shutdown and Growing Political Threats
US Cyber Defense Agency Slammed by Shutdown, Personnel Cuts and Resource Crisis. Facing major turnover, partisan upheaval and a government shutdown, the U.S. cyber defense agency is now operating at a fraction of its strength, leaving states and other entities without federal cyber support or coordination, experts tell Information Security Media Group. First seen on…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Skills Drive Up Cyber Salaries, as Cyber Teams Grow Arsenal of AI Tools, Reports Find
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, breach, business, ciso, cloud, computing, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, extortion, finance, framework, fraud, google, governance, guide, hacker, hacking, identity, incident response, Internet, iot, jobs, login, microsoft, monitoring, network, nist, oracle, organized, password, privacy, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, scam, skills, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayWant recruiters to show you the money? A new report says AI skills are your golden ticket. Plus, cyber teams are all in on AI, including agentic AI tools. Oh, and please patch a nasty Oracle zero-day bug ASAP. And get the latest on vulnerability management, IoT security and cyber fraud. Key takeaways Eager to…
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ISMG Editors: How the US Federal Shutdown Exposes Cyber Gaps
Also: Shutdown’s Ripple Effects on Healthcare, Mounting Threats to Aging OT Systems. In this week’s update, four ISMG editors discussed the fallout from the U.S. federal shutdown and the impact on state and regional cyber offices, the knock-on effects for healthcare, and the growing cyberthreats facing aging operational technology environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Hackers exploiting zero-day in Gladinet file sharing software
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products, which allows a local attacker to access system files without authentication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploiting-zero-day-in-gladinet-file-sharing-software/
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Chinese Hackers Use Velociraptor IR Tool in Ransomware Attacks
In a new wrinkle for adversary tactics, the Storm-2603 threat group is abusing the digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool to gain persistent access to victim networks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/chinese-hackers-velociraptor-ir-tool-ransomware-attacks
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Feds Shutter ShinyHunters Salesforce Extortion Site
The group warned that law-enforcement crackdowns are imminent in the wake of the takedown, but its extortion threats against Salesforce victims remain active. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/shinyhunters-feds-shutter-salesforce-extortion-site
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Deepfake Awareness High at Orgs, But Cyber Defenses Badly Lag
The vast majority of organizations are encountering AI-augmented threats, but remain confident in their defenses, despite inadequate detection investment and more than half falling to successful attacks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/deepfake-awareness-high-cyber-defenses-lag
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Deepfake Awareness High at Orgs, But Cyber Defenses Badly Lag
The vast majority of organizations are encountering AI-augmented threats, but remain confident in their defenses, despite inadequate detection investment and more than half falling to successful attacks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/deepfake-awareness-high-cyber-defenses-lag
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Microsoft Warns of ‘Payroll Pirates’ Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries
A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts.”Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain access to third-party human resources (HR) software as a service (SaaS) platforms like Workday,” the…
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Ukraine sees surge in AI-Powered cyberattacks by Russia-linked Threat Actors
Russia-linked actors use AI to craft phishing and malware attacks against entities in Ukraine, says SSSCIP. Russian hackers increasingly use AI in cyberattacks against Ukraine, the country’s State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) reported. Beyond AI-generated phishing, some malware samples now show AI-generated code. In H1 2025, Ukraine recorded 3,018 cyber incidents,…
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Ukraine sees surge in AI-Powered cyberattacks by Russia-linked Threat Actors
Russia-linked actors use AI to craft phishing and malware attacks against entities in Ukraine, says SSSCIP. Russian hackers increasingly use AI in cyberattacks against Ukraine, the country’s State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) reported. Beyond AI-generated phishing, some malware samples now show AI-generated code. In H1 2025, Ukraine recorded 3,018 cyber incidents,…
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Datenleck bei SonicWall betrifft alle CloudKunden
Tags: backup, cloud, cyberattack, data-breach, dns, encryption, firewall, intelligence, Internet, ransomware, risk, security-incident, threat, updateDer Sicherheitsvorfall bei SonicWall ist umfangreicher als bisher angenommen.Am 17. September gab der Security-Anbieter SonicWall bekannt, dass Cyberkriminelle Backup-Dateien entwendet hätten, die für die Cloud-Sicherung konfiguriert waren. Damals behauptete das Unternehmen, der Vorfall sei auf “weniger als fünf Prozent” der Kunden beschränkt. Nun muss der Firewall-Anbieter einräumen, dass “alle Kunden”, die die MySonicWall-Cloud-Backup-Funktion nutzten, von…
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Open-source DFIR Velociraptor was abused in expanding ransomware efforts
Attribution and the ransomware cocktail: Talos links the campaign to Storm-2603, a suspected China-based threat actor, citing matching TTPs like the use of ‘cmd.exe’, disabling Defender protections, creating scheduled tasks, and manipulating Group Policy Objects. The use of multiple ransomware strains in a single operation Warlock, LockBit, and Babuk also bolstered confidence in this attribution.”Talos…
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Datenleck bei SonicWall betrifft alle CloudKunden
Tags: backup, cloud, cyberattack, data-breach, dns, encryption, firewall, intelligence, Internet, ransomware, risk, security-incident, threat, updateDer Sicherheitsvorfall bei SonicWall ist umfangreicher als bisher angenommen.Am 17. September gab der Security-Anbieter SonicWall bekannt, dass Cyberkriminelle Backup-Dateien entwendet hätten, die für die Cloud-Sicherung konfiguriert waren. Damals behauptete das Unternehmen, der Vorfall sei auf “weniger als fünf Prozent” der Kunden beschränkt. Nun muss der Firewall-Anbieter einräumen, dass “alle Kunden”, die die MySonicWall-Cloud-Backup-Funktion nutzten, von…