Tag: threat
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LunaLock Ransomware threatens victims by feeding stolen data to AI models
LunaLock, a new ransomware gang, introduced a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. A new ransomware group, named LunaLock, appeared in the threat landscape with a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. Recently, the LunaLock group targeted the website Artists&Clients and…
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SHARED INTEL QA: Is your antivirus catching fresh threats, or just echoing VirusTotal?
In cybersecurity, trust often hinges on what users think their software is doing, versus what’s actually happening under the hood. Related: Eddy Willem’s ‘Borrowed Brains’ findings Take antivirus, for example. Many users assume threat detection is based on proprietary… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/shared-intel-qa-is-your-antivirus-catching-fresh-threats-or-just-echoing-virustotal/
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LunaLock Ransomware threatens victims by feeding stolen data to AI models
LunaLock, a new ransomware gang, introduced a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. A new ransomware group, named LunaLock, appeared in the threat landscape with a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. Recently, the LunaLock group targeted the website Artists&Clients and…
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SHARED INTEL QA: Is your antivirus catching fresh threats, or just echoing VirusTotal?
In cybersecurity, trust often hinges on what users think their software is doing, versus what’s actually happening under the hood. Related: Eddy Willem’s ‘Borrowed Brains’ findings Take antivirus, for example. Many users assume threat detection is based on proprietary… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/shared-intel-qa-is-your-antivirus-catching-fresh-threats-or-just-echoing-virustotal/
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LunaLock Ransomware threatens victims by feeding stolen data to AI models
LunaLock, a new ransomware gang, introduced a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. A new ransomware group, named LunaLock, appeared in the threat landscape with a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. Recently, the LunaLock group targeted the website Artists&Clients and…
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Chinese Hackers Salt Typhoon and UNC4841 Team Up to Breach Critical Infrastructure
Tags: breach, china, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, espionage, government, hacker, infrastructure, malicious, network, threatCybersecurity researchers at Silent Push have uncovered a sophisticated Chinese espionage operation linking two prominent threat actors, Salt Typhoon and UNC4841, revealing previously unreported infrastructure used to target government and corporate networks across more than 80 countries. The discovery of 45 malicious domains dating back to 2020 demonstrates the extensive reach and long-term persistence of…
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Chinese Hackers Salt Typhoon and UNC4841 Team Up to Breach Critical Infrastructure
Tags: breach, china, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, espionage, government, hacker, infrastructure, malicious, network, threatCybersecurity researchers at Silent Push have uncovered a sophisticated Chinese espionage operation linking two prominent threat actors, Salt Typhoon and UNC4841, revealing previously unreported infrastructure used to target government and corporate networks across more than 80 countries. The discovery of 45 malicious domains dating back to 2020 demonstrates the extensive reach and long-term persistence of…
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Chinese Hackers Salt Typhoon and UNC4841 Team Up to Breach Critical Infrastructure
Tags: breach, china, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, espionage, government, hacker, infrastructure, malicious, network, threatCybersecurity researchers at Silent Push have uncovered a sophisticated Chinese espionage operation linking two prominent threat actors, Salt Typhoon and UNC4841, revealing previously unreported infrastructure used to target government and corporate networks across more than 80 countries. The discovery of 45 malicious domains dating back to 2020 demonstrates the extensive reach and long-term persistence of…
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SHARED INTEL QA: Is your antivirus catching fresh threats, or just echoing VirusTotal?
In cybersecurity, trust often hinges on what users think their software is doing, versus what’s actually happening under the hood. Related: Eddy Willem’s ‘Borrowed Brains’ findings Take antivirus, for example. Many users assume threat detection is based on proprietary… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/shared-intel-qa-is-your-antivirus-catching-fresh-threats-or-just-echoing-virustotal/
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45 Previously Unreported Domains Expose Longstanding Salt Typhoon Cyber Espionage
Threat hunters have discovered a set of previously unreported domains, some going back to May 2020, that are associated with China-linked threat actors Salt Typhoon and UNC4841.”The domains date back several years, with the oldest registration activity occurring in May 2020, further confirming that the 2024 Salt Typhoon attacks were not the first activity carried…
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‘MostereRAT’ Malware Blends In, Blocks Security Tools
A threat actor is using a sophisticated EDR-killing malware tool in a campaign to maintain long-term, persistent access on Windows systems. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/mostererat-blocks-security-tools
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Salesloft Drift security incident started with undetected GitHub access
The company said a threat actor accessed and snooped around its account for months, then stole OAuth tokens for Drift integrations from its cloud environment. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/salesloft-drift-attack-root-cause-github-oauth/
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Hackers breached Salesloft ‘s GitHub in March, and used stole tokens in a mass attack
Hackers breached Salesloft’s GitHub in March, stole tokens, and used them in a mass attack on several major tech customers. Salesloft revealed that the threat actor UNC6395 breached its GitHub account in March, stealing authentication tokens that were later used in a large-scale attack against several major tech customers. Salesforce data theft attacks impacted major…
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ISMG Editors: Nullcon Berlin Puts Security Research First
Also: AI Threats, Old Flaws and Why Vendors Delay Fixes. AI prompt injection risks, decades-old vulnerabilities resurfacing in new systems and vendors prioritizing profits over protection defined the conversations at Nullcon Berlin 2025. Panelists shared how this event stood out for its technical depth and advancing security knowledge. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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ISMG Editors: Nullcon Berlin Puts Security Research First
Also: AI Threats, Old Flaws and Why Vendors Delay Fixes. AI prompt injection risks, decades-old vulnerabilities resurfacing in new systems and vendors prioritizing profits over protection defined the conversations at Nullcon Berlin 2025. Panelists shared how this event stood out for its technical depth and advancing security knowledge. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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GitHub Account Compromise Led to Salesloft Drift Breach Affecting 22 Companies
Salesloft has revealed that the data breach linked to its Drift application started with the compromise of its GitHub account.Google-owned Mandiant, which began an investigation into the incident, said the threat actor, tracked as UNC6395, accessed the Salesloft GitHub account from March through June 2025. So far, 22 companies have confirmed they were impacted by…
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UltraViolet Cyber Acquires Application Security Testing Service from Black Duck
Tags: application-security, ceo, cloud, container, cyber, penetration-testing, RedTeam, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, threatUltraViolet Cyber has acquired the application security testing services arm of Black Duck Software as part of an effort to expand the scope of the managed security services it provides. Company CEO Ira Goldstein said this addition to its portfolio will provide penetration testing, red teaming, threat modeling, cloud and container risk assessments, architecture risk..…
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UltraViolet Cyber Acquires Application Security Testing Service from Black Duck
Tags: application-security, ceo, cloud, container, cyber, penetration-testing, RedTeam, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, threatUltraViolet Cyber has acquired the application security testing services arm of Black Duck Software as part of an effort to expand the scope of the managed security services it provides. Company CEO Ira Goldstein said this addition to its portfolio will provide penetration testing, red teaming, threat modeling, cloud and container risk assessments, architecture risk..…
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ICYMI: Exposure Management Academy on Attack Surface Management, Proactive Security and More
Tags: ai, attack, best-practice, business, cio, cloud, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, group, Internet, jobs, office, risk, skills, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, we look back on the guidance and best practices shared in the past several months. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. Let’s look back at key…
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ICYMI: Exposure Management Academy on Attack Surface Management, Proactive Security and More
Tags: ai, attack, best-practice, business, cio, cloud, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, group, Internet, jobs, office, risk, skills, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, we look back on the guidance and best practices shared in the past several months. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. Let’s look back at key…
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45 New Domains Linked to Salt Typhoon, UNC4841
The China-backed threat actors have used the previously undiscovered infrastructure to obtain long-term, stealthy access to targeted organizations. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/new-domains-salt-typhoon-unc4841
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Noisy Bear Campaign Targeting Kazakhstan Energy Sector Outed as a Planned Phishing Test
A threat actor possibly of Russian origin has been attributed to a new set of attacks targeting the energy sector in Kazakhstan.The activity, codenamed Operation BarrelFire, is tied to a new threat group tracked by Seqrite Labs as Noisy Bear. The threat actor has been active since at least April 2025.”The campaign is targeted towards…
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Remote Access Abuse Biggest Pre-Ransomware Indicator
Cisco Talos found that abuse of remote services and remote access software are the most prevalent ‘pre-ransomware’ tactics deployed by threat actors First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/remote-access-abuse-pre-ransomware/
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GhostAction campaign steals 3325 secrets in GitHub supply chain attack
Tags: ai, attack, control, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, malicious, network, pypi, risk, supply-chain, threatThreat contained within days: GitGuardian’s security team responded quickly after detection, and the FastUUID package was set to read-only by PyPI administrators within minutes. The malicious commit was reverted shortly afterward. GitGuardian notified maintainers of the affected repositories, successfully contacting 573 projects, while also alerting GitHub, npm, and PyPI security teams to monitor for abuse.Although…
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GhostAction campaign steals 3325 secrets in GitHub supply chain attack
Tags: ai, attack, control, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, malicious, network, pypi, risk, supply-chain, threatThreat contained within days: GitGuardian’s security team responded quickly after detection, and the FastUUID package was set to read-only by PyPI administrators within minutes. The malicious commit was reverted shortly afterward. GitGuardian notified maintainers of the affected repositories, successfully contacting 573 projects, while also alerting GitHub, npm, and PyPI security teams to monitor for abuse.Although…
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Hackers Exploit Amazon SES to Blast Over 50,000 Malicious Emails Daily
Tags: cloud, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, email, exploit, hacker, malicious, phishing, service, threatA sophisticated cyberattack campaign where threat actors exploited compromised AWS credentials to hijack Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES), launching large-scale phishing operations capable of sending over 50,000 malicious emails daily. The Wiz Research team identified this alarming SES abuse campaign in May 2025, highlighting a concerning trend where cybercriminals are weaponizing legitimate cloud services to…
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Is the CISO role broken?
Short tenures breed long-term failure: But tenures have remained low. Several articles every year place the average CISO tenure in the region at two to three years, and that matches my own field experience.You do not achieve much in terms of transformative impact in any large firm in two to three years.In fact, many CISOs…