Tag: threat
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North Korean Hackers Exploit NPM Packages to Steal Cryptocurrency and Sensitive Data
Veracode Threat Research has uncovered a sophisticated North Korean cryptocurrency theft operation that continues to evolve, building on campaigns previously reported in February and June 2024. This latest iteration involves twelve malicious NPM packages, including cloud-binary, json-cookie-csv, cloudmedia, and nodemailer-enhancer, which were flagged by automated monitoring systems and subsequently removed from the NPM registry. The…
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Pro-Iran Hackers Aligned Cyber with Kinetic War Aims
SecurityScorecard analysis highlights wide variety of Iranian threat actors and coordination with military activity First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/proiran-hackers-aligned-cyber/
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How Top CISOs Save Their SOCs from Alert Chaos to Never Miss Real Incidents
Why do SOC teams still drown in alerts even after spending big on security tools? False positives pile up, stealthy threats slip through, and critical incidents get buried in the noise. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn’t adding more and more tools to SOC workflows but giving analysts the speed and visibility they need…
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How Top CISOs Save Their SOCs from Alert Chaos to Never Miss Real Incidents
Why do SOC teams still drown in alerts even after spending big on security tools? False positives pile up, stealthy threats slip through, and critical incidents get buried in the noise. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn’t adding more and more tools to SOC workflows but giving analysts the speed and visibility they need…
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5 hard truths of a career in cybersecurity, and how to navigate them
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, firewall, framework, gartner, identity, ISO-27001, jobs, mitigation, network, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, training, wafCybersecurity teams protect systems but neglect people: After all the effort it takes to break into cybersecurity, professionals often end up on teams that don’t feel welcoming or supportive.Jinan Budge, a research director at Forrester who focuses on enabling CISOs and other technical leaders, believes the way most cybersecurity career paths are structured plays a…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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Ransomware groups shift to quadruple extortion to maximize pressure
Threat actors are using a new quadruple extortion tactic in ransomware campaigns, while double extortion remains the most common approach, according to Akamai. Ransomware … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/05/ransomware-extortion-tactics-quadruple-extortion/
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Chinese Nation-State Hackers Breach Southeast Asian Telecoms
Threat Actor Maintains Long-Term Stealthy Access. Chinese nation-state hackers penetrated mobile telecom networks across Southeast Asia likely in order to track individuals’ location, say security researchers. One tell about the hackers’ intentions was deployment of a custom-made network scanning and packet capture utility tracked as CordScan. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/chinese-nation-state-hackers-breach-southeast-asian-telecoms-a-29120
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OWASP LLM Risk #5: Improper Output Handling FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, awareness, cyber, detection, email, injection, LLM, mitigation, monitoring, phishing, remote-code-execution, risk, sql, strategy, threat, vulnerabilityAug 04, 2025 – Lina Romero – 2025 is seeing an unprecedented surge of cyber attacks and breaches. AI, in particular, has introduced a whole new set of risks to the landscape and researchers are struggling to keep up. The OWASP Top 10 Risks for LLMs goes into detail about the ten most prevalent risks…
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Threat Actors Exploit AI to Scale Attacks and Target Autonomous Agents
Adversaries are using artificial intelligence (AI) to increase their operational efficiency in a fast-changing threat landscape. They are scaling attacks and focusing on autonomous AI agents that support contemporary enterprise ecosystems. According to frontline intelligence from CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report, derived from elite threat hunters and analysts, threat actors are employing generative AI (GenAI)…
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Modular Malware Suite Sold by Threat Actors Through Public Storefront Domains
A threat actor operating under the moniker Cyber Products has established a public-facing storefront at cyberproducts[.]io to distribute their modular malware suite, dubbed Cyber Stealer. This development marks a shift toward overt commercialization of malicious tools, with additional promotion occurring in clandestine online communities such as Hackforums. The malware, alternatively branded as Cyber Botnet &…
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Threat Actors Increasingly Leaning on GenAI Tools
From eCrime actors to fake IT tech workers, CrowdStrike researchers found that adversaries are using AI to enhance their offensive cyber operations. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/threat-actors-leaning-genai-tools
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CNCERT Accuses U.S. Intelligence of Cyberattacks on Chinese Military-Industrial Targets
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center (CNCERT) has publicly accused U.S. intelligence agencies of orchestrating sophisticated cyberattacks against key military-industrial entities, building on the 2022 NSA breach at Northwestern Polytechnical University. The revelations detail two emblematic incidents that underscore the persistent targeting of China’s defense sector through advanced persistent threats (APTs). The…
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AppOmni Launches New SaaS and AI Security Packages to Tackle Rising Risks
AppOmni secures AI inside SaaS with discovery, threat defense, and full governance control with new product packages. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/appomni-launches-new-saas-and-ai-security-packages-to-tackle-rising-risks/
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Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain Vulnerable SharePoint
The application was exploited by at least three state-sponsored Chinese threat groups last month. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-sharepoint-china-engineers/
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Surge in Threat Actor Exploitation Attempts Serves as Early Warning of Emerging Cyber Vulnerabilities
Researchers have discovered a continuous relationship between increases in threat actor activity and the eventual disclosure of new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in corporate edge technologies, according to a groundbreaking report published by GreyNoise, Inc. The study, spanning data from September 2024 onward, leverages GreyNoise’s Global Observation Grid (GOG) to monitor daily unique IP…
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AI is helping hackers automate and customize cyberattacks
CrowdStrike’s annual cyber-threat-hunting report reveals the double threat that AI poses to many businesses. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-automate-cyber-threats-crowdstrike/756694/
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New SharePoint Zero-Day Allows Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Since mid-July, this vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild by multiple threat actors, including groups believed to be affiliated with nation-state interests. To date, more than 85 SharePoint servers worldwide have reportedly been compromised, emphasizing the urgent need for organizations to implement available mitigations and apply emergency security patches without delay. Technical Details”¦…
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Securing the Skies: Balancing Cybersecurity, Innovation and Risk in Modern Aviation
Commercial aviation has always treated safety as non-negotiable, yet its digital attack surface keeps widening. Aerospace security specialists Lawrence Baker and Jeffrey Hall tell Mike Vizard that the industry now juggles classic ransomware on ticketing systems and loyalty apps while defending aircraft and ground equipment that were never designed for today’s threat landscape. Airlines are..…
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Five Things To Know From CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report
Attackers have put increased efforts behind compromising multiple IT domains at targeted victims as part of utilizing stealthier tactics, according to CrowdStrike’s latest threat hunting report released Monday. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/five-things-to-know-from-crowdstrike-s-2025-threat-hunting-report
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Local Government Cybersecurity: Why Municipal Systems Need Extra Protection
Cybersecurity threats to local governments are part of life in the digital environment in which people live today…. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/local-government-cybersecurity-municipal-systems-protection/
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Akzeptanz von GenAI-Plattformen steigert auch die Schatten-KI-Risiken
Aktuelle Untersuchungen der Netskope Threat Labs zeigen im aktuellen ., dass das Risiko mit zunehmender Verbreitung von Onpremise-GenAI und KI-Agenten steigt, obwohl Unternehmen SaaS-GenAI-Anwendungen in größerem Umfang sicher einsetzen. Der Report offenbart, dass die Nutzung von GenAI-Plattformen in Unternehmen in den drei Monaten bis Mai 2025 um 50 […] First seen on netzpalaver.de Jump to…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: VPN 0-Day, Encryption Backdoor, AI Malware, macOS Flaw, ATM Hack & More
Malware isn’t just trying to hide anymore”, it’s trying to belong. We’re seeing code that talks like us, logs like us, even documents itself like a helpful teammate. Some threats now look more like developer tools than exploits. Others borrow trust from open-source platforms, or quietly build themselves out of AI-written snippets. It’s not just…
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North Korea Hiding Malware Within JPEG Files to Attack Windows Systems Bypassing Detections
Security researchers at Genians Security Center have uncovered a sophisticated new variant of the RoKRAT malware, attributed to the North Korean-linked APT37 threat group, which employs steganography to conceal malicious payloads within seemingly innocuous JPEG image files. This technique allows the malware to evade traditional antivirus detections by embedding encrypted shellcode in image data, which…
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Interlock Ransomware Uses ClickFix Exploit to Execute Malicious Commands on Windows
The Interlock ransomware group was connected to several sophisticated cyber incidents that targeted firms in North America and Europe, according to a recent report published in July 2025 by eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). The group, active since September 2024, employs a multi-stage attack chain that begins with the exploitation of compromised websites, such as…
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Nation-state group CL-STA-0969 targeted Southeast Asian telecoms in 2024
State-backed group CL-STA-0969 hit Southeast Asian telecoms in 2024, targeting critical infrastructure, says Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. Palo Alto Networks reported that a nation-state actor, tracked as CL-STA-0969, targeted telecom firms in Southeast Asia, with attacks on critical infrastructure from February to November 2024. Threat actor CL-STA-0969 overlaps with the China-linked cyber espionage group…
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CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-north-korean-operatives/