Tag: threat
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SonicWall NetExtender Trojan and ConnectWise Exploits Used in Remote Access Attacks
Unknown threat actors have been distributing a trojanized version of SonicWall’s SSL VPN NetExtender application to steal credentials from unsuspecting users who may have installed it.”NetExtender enables remote users to securely connect and run applications on the company network,” SonicWall researcher Sravan Ganachari said. “Users can upload and download files, access network drives, and use…
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Critical Kibana Flaws Enable Heap Corruption and Remote Code Execution
A critical security flaw has been uncovered in Kibana, the popular data visualization platform for the Elastic Stack, exposing organizations to severe risks of heap corruption and potential remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2135, carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.9, marking it as a critical threat that requires immediate attention from both…
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CISA Releases New ICS Advisories Highlighting Ongoing Threats and Exploits
Tags: cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, infrastructure, mitigation, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released eight new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on June 24, 2025, addressing critical vulnerabilities and ongoing threats to essential infrastructure. These advisories provide detailed technical information and mitigation guidance for a range of ICS products used worldwide. 1.Kaleris Navis N4 Terminal Operating System: Remote Exploits and…
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LLMs hype versus reality: What CISOs should focus on
Tags: ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, finance, governance, LLM, malware, monitoring, network, open-source, risk, risk-management, sans, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilitynot using AI even though there is a lot of over-hype and promise about its capability. That said, organizations that don’t use AI will get left behind. The risk of using AI is where all the FUD is.”In terms of applying controls, rinse, wash, and repeat the processes you followed when adopting cloud, BYOD, and…
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Why should companies or organizations convert to FIDO security keys?
In this Help Net Security interview, Alexander Summerer, Head of Authentication at Swissbit, explains how FIDO security keys work, what threats they address, and why they’re … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/25/alexander-summerer-swissbit-fido-security-keys/
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What Water Utilities Need to Know About HMI Security and AI Solutions
Water and Wastewater Systems are increasingly becoming soft targets for sophisticated cyber attackers. A new joint fact sheet from the EPA and CISA puts this threat front and center, warning utilities about the growing risk of internet-exposed Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). These essential components of water system operations are now being exploited”, especially by state-sponsored…
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Key Cyber Law’s Lapse Could Mute Threat Sharing Nationwide
Congress Faces Pressure to Modernize Cyber Definitions, Safeguards Before Deadline. With the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 set to expire this fall, lawmakers face mounting pressure to update its liability protections and outdated definitions, as experts warn that failure to modernize could undermine public-private threat sharing and weaken national cyber defenses. First seen on…
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Threat Actor Trojanizes Copy of SonicWall NetExtender VPN App
A threat actor hacked a version of SonicWall’s NetExtender SSL VPN application in an effort to trick users into installing a Trojanized version of the product. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/threat-actor-trojanizes-sonicwall-netextender-vpn
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Feds Warn Healthcare Sector of Rising Iranian Cyberthreats
Geopolitical Conflict Involving Iran, Israel, US Ripe for Attacks on Sector. Government authorities are warning of increased risk of Iranian cyber and related threats against healthcare and public health sector organizations – including ransomware, distributed denial-of-service and other attacks related to that nation’s escalated conflicts with Israel and the U.S. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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SonicWall warns of trojanized NetExtender stealing VPN logins
SonicWall is warning customers that threat actors are distributing a trojanized version of its NetExtender SSL VPN client used to steal VPN credentials. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-trojanized-netextender-stealing-vpn-logins/
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Black Hat SEO Poisoning Search Engine Results For AI to Distribute Malware
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz researchers recently uncovered AI-themed websites designed to spread malware. The threat actors behind these attacks are exploiting the popularity of AI tools like ChatGPT and Luma AI. These websites are utilizing platforms such as WordPress and are designed to poison search engine rankings and increase the probability of unsuspecting users landing on these…
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Maximize ROI from Your CrowdStrike Deployment
At ColorTokens, we’ve always been about breach readiness by stopping lateral movement through microsegmentation. Our mission is simple. Contain the spread of threats and keep operations running, even during an attack. That’s how we help businesses stay resilient. So, when you hear CrowdStrike say, “We stop breaches,” it directly aligns with our core mission. If your……
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q2 2025
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, cyber, defense, detection, google, governance, guide, metric, office, RedTeam, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustAmazingly, Medium has fixed the stats so my blog/podcast quarterly is back to life. As before, this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe). Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”, “Šwow, this…
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New DRAT V2 Update Enhances C2 Protocol with Shell Command Execution Capabilities
A new variant of the DRAT remote access trojan (RAT), dubbed DRAT V2, has been uncovered as part of a TAG-140 campaign targeting Indian government entities. This threat actor, believed to overlap with SideCopy and linked to Transparent Tribe (aka APT36), demonstrates a consistent pattern of refining its malware arsenal. TAG-140 Evolves Malware Arsenal The…
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Snyk Strengthens Its Hand Against Emerging AI Threats With Acquisition
Developer security platform provider Snyk has acquired AI security research firm Invariant Labs in a move to bolster the company’s AI agent development security capabilities. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/snyk-acquisition-strengthens-its-hand-against-emerging-ai-threats
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Gonjeshke Darande Hackers Pose as Activists to Infiltrate Iranian Crypto Exchange
Gonjeshke Darande, a cyber threat actor widely suspected to be an Israeli state-sponsored group masquerading as an Iranian opposition hacktivist entity, executed a devastating attack on Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. This high-profile breach resulted in the destruction of US$90 million in cryptocurrencies, which were deliberately sent to invalid wallets embedded with the provocative string…
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Oh! Canada Added to List of Nations Targeted in Salt Typhoon Telecom Spree
The Canadian Center for Cybersecurity has confirmed that the Chinese state-sponsored cyber-threat actor targeted one of its telecommunications companies in February via a Cisco flaw, as part of global attack wave. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/canada-targeted-salt-typhoon-telecom
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Threat Actors Exploit ConnectWise Configuration to Create Signed Malware
Threat actors have increasingly exploited vulnerabilities and configurations in ConnectWise software to distribute signed malware, masquerading as legitimate applications. Initially observed in February 2024 with ransomware attacks linked to vulnerabilities CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709, the abuse escalated by March 2025 under the moniker “EvilConwi”. This new wave of attacks leverages ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect tool, manipulating its certificate…
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Weaponized DMV-Themed Phishing Scam Targets U.S. Citizens to Steal Personal and Financial Data
A highly coordinated phishing campaign impersonating various U.S. state Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs) has emerged as a significant threat, targeting citizens across multiple states with the intent to harvest personal and financial data. This sophisticated operation employs SMS phishing, commonly known as smishing, by sending alarming text messages from spoofed numbers that often appear…
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Hackers Target Over 70 Microsoft Exchange Servers to Steal Credentials via Keyloggers
Unidentified threat actors have been observed targeting publicly exposed Microsoft Exchange servers to inject malicious code into the login pages that harvest their credentials.Positive Technologies, in a new analysis published last week, said it identified two different kinds of keylogger code written in JavaScript on the Outlook login page -Those that save collected data to…
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Fortifying Retail Security: Practical Steps to Prevent Cyberattacks
Threats to retailers will intensify with more ransomware attacks, combined with the security implications of new technologies. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/06/fortifying-retail-security-practical-steps-to-prevent-cyberattacks/
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EagleSpy v5 RAT Promoted by Hacker for Stealthy Android Access
A notorious threat actor known as >>xperttechy
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APT28 Uses Signal Chat to Deploy BEARDSHELL Malware and COVENANT in Ukraine
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new cyber attack campaign by the Russia-linked APT28 (aka UAC-0001) threat actors using Signal chat messages to deliver two new malware families dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT.BEARDSHELL, per CERT-UA, is written in C++ and offers the ability to download and execute PowerShell scripts, as…
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NSFOCUS was Selected as a Representative Provider of Gartner® “Innovation Insight: Adversarial Exposure Validation in China”
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 24, 2025 Recently, Gartner released the 2025 “Innovation Insight: Adversarial Exposure Validation in China”¹, NSFOCUS was selected as a Representative Provider for its adversarial exposure validation (AEV) capability in the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) service. Why has ASM become a pain point for enterprises? Asset data is scattered and lacks…The…
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Unstructured Data Management: Closing the Gap Between Risk and Response
Unstructured Data Management: Closing the Gap Between Risk and Response madhav Tue, 06/24/2025 – 05:44 The world is producing data at an exponential rate. With generative AI driving 90% of all newly created content, organizations are overwhelmed by an ever-growing data estate. More than 181 zettabytes of data now exist globally”, and 80% of it…
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LapDogs Hackers Compromise 1,000 SOHO Devices Using Custom Backdoor for Stealthy Attacks
Security researchers at SecurityScorecard have uncovered a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign orchestrated by the LapDogs Operational Relay Box (ORB) Network, a sophisticated infrastructure compromising over 1,000 devices worldwide. Identified as a key tool for China-Nexus threat actors, LapDogs primarily targets Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices, particularly Linux-based systems, to facilitate covert operations. This…
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Advanced Malware Campaign Targets WordPress and WooCommerce Sites with Hidden Skimmers
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign during a routine site cleanup, revealing a family of malicious code targeting WordPress and WooCommerce platforms. This campaign, which dates back to September 2023 as per their Threat Intelligence platform, showcases a dynamic and evolving framework with over 20 distinct samples. Sophisticated Malware Framework The…