Tag: threat
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Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts
Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities for the past 10 hours. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-portal-outage-blocks-access-to-security-alerts/
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Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts
Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities for the past 10 hours. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-portal-outage-blocks-access-to-security-alerts/
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Ukrainian Hackers Target Russian Aerospace and Defense Sectors
Multiple Ukrainian hacktivist groups have launched an extensive spearphishing campaign targeting Russia’s critical aerospace and defence industries, according to a new threat intelligence report by Intrinsec. The coordinated attacks between June and September 2025 represent an escalating cyber warfare strategy aimed at disrupting Russian military capabilities and civilian aviation operations.”‹ The campaign involves several prominent…
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Ukrainian Hackers Target Russian Aerospace and Defense Sectors
Multiple Ukrainian hacktivist groups have launched an extensive spearphishing campaign targeting Russia’s critical aerospace and defence industries, according to a new threat intelligence report by Intrinsec. The coordinated attacks between June and September 2025 represent an escalating cyber warfare strategy aimed at disrupting Russian military capabilities and civilian aviation operations.”‹ The campaign involves several prominent…
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Evilginx Attack Techniques Allow Hackers to Defeat MFA Through SSO Phishing
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, framework, hacker, login, mfa, open-source, phishing, threatA sophisticated threat actor has been conducting a persistent phishing campaign against United States educational institutions since April 2025, leveraging the open-source Evilginx framework to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign, which has targeted at least 18 universities to date, utilizes adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to intercept login credentials and session cookies by mimicking legitimate single…
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Evilginx Attack Techniques Allow Hackers to Defeat MFA Through SSO Phishing
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, framework, hacker, login, mfa, open-source, phishing, threatA sophisticated threat actor has been conducting a persistent phishing campaign against United States educational institutions since April 2025, leveraging the open-source Evilginx framework to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign, which has targeted at least 18 universities to date, utilizes adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to intercept login credentials and session cookies by mimicking legitimate single…
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Early Indicators of Insider Threats Through Authentication and Access Controls
Security researchers at Nisos have identified a critical gap in insider threat detection: organizations often fail to correlate early behavioral anomalies with external intelligence sources, leaving meaningful warning signs buried beneath operational noise until incidents escalate into confirmed breaches. Most insider threats do not announce themselves with apparent malicious activity. Instead, security teams encounter subtle…
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Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera
A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD, conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and ANY.RUN, a solution for interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence, has uncovered one of North Korea’s most persistent infiltration schemes: a network of remote IT workers tied to Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima division.For the first time, researchers…
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Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera
A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD, conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and ANY.RUN, a solution for interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence, has uncovered one of North Korea’s most persistent infiltration schemes: a network of remote IT workers tied to Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima division.For the first time, researchers…
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CSO 30 Awards 2025: Celebrating Excellence, Innovation and Leadership in Cybersecurity
Tags: advisory, ai, automation, awareness, backup, business, ceo, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, finance, google, governance, healthcare, incident response, infosec, jobs, office, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, strategy, technology, threatUK CSO 30 2025 winner Greg Emmerson (right) with judge Andrew Barber (left) CSO UK / FoundryGreg Emmerson stood out for transforming both the culture and capability of Applegreen’s security organization. Emmerson established regional Centres of Excellence to strengthen collaboration and skill development across global teams, modernizing operations through Continuous Threat Exposure Management and enterprise-wide canary tooling. By unifying identities and embedding advanced…
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MuddyWater strikes Israel with advanced MuddyViper malware
Iran-linked threat actor MuddyWater targeted multiple Israeli sectors with a new MuddyViper backdoor in recent attacks. ESET researchers uncovered a new MuddyWater campaign targeting Israeli organizations and one confirmed Egyptian target. The Iran-linked APT group MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, Mango Sandstorm, TA450, and Static Kitten) deployed custom tools to evade defenses and maintain persistence. They used a Fooder loader,…
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CSO 30 Awards 2025: Celebrating Excellence, Innovation and Leadership in Cybersecurity
Tags: advisory, ai, automation, awareness, backup, business, ceo, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, finance, google, governance, healthcare, incident response, infosec, jobs, office, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, strategy, technology, threatUK CSO 30 2025 winner Greg Emmerson (right) with judge Andrew Barber (left) CSO UK / FoundryGreg Emmerson stood out for transforming both the culture and capability of Applegreen’s security organization. Emmerson established regional Centres of Excellence to strengthen collaboration and skill development across global teams, modernizing operations through Continuous Threat Exposure Management and enterprise-wide canary tooling. By unifying identities and embedding advanced…
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Cyber Startup Frenetik Launches with Patented Deception Technology That Bets Against the AI Arms Race
Bethesda, USA / Maryland, December 2nd, 2025, CyberNewsWire While most cybersecurity companies pour resources into AI models, massive compute, hoovering up all the data, and enhanced analytics to detect and prevent threats, Frenetik, a Maryland cyber startup, is betting on something simpler: making sure attackers don’t know what defenders know. The company emerged today with…
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Early Indicators of Insider Threats Through Authentication and Access Controls
Security researchers at Nisos have identified a critical gap in insider threat detection: organizations often fail to correlate early behavioral anomalies with external intelligence sources, leaving meaningful warning signs buried beneath operational noise until incidents escalate into confirmed breaches. Most insider threats do not announce themselves with apparent malicious activity. Instead, security teams encounter subtle…
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Early Indicators of Insider Threats Through Authentication and Access Controls
Security researchers at Nisos have identified a critical gap in insider threat detection: organizations often fail to correlate early behavioral anomalies with external intelligence sources, leaving meaningful warning signs buried beneath operational noise until incidents escalate into confirmed breaches. Most insider threats do not announce themselves with apparent malicious activity. Instead, security teams encounter subtle…
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DevilsTongue Spyware Targets Windows Users Across Multiple Countries
Researchers at Insikt Group have uncovered new infrastructure linked to multiple operational clusters associated with Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, revealing an ongoing campaign deploying the sophisticated DevilsTongue malware against Windows users across several nations. The discovery highlights the persistent threat posed by commercial surveillance tools despite international regulatory efforts to curb their abuse. The investigation…
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DevilsTongue Spyware Targets Windows Users Across Multiple Countries
Researchers at Insikt Group have uncovered new infrastructure linked to multiple operational clusters associated with Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, revealing an ongoing campaign deploying the sophisticated DevilsTongue malware against Windows users across several nations. The discovery highlights the persistent threat posed by commercial surveillance tools despite international regulatory efforts to curb their abuse. The investigation…
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Hackers Exploit Telegram, WinSCP, Chrome, and Teams to Deliver ValleyRat Malware
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign where threat actors weaponize trojanized installers for popular productivity applications to deploy ValleyRat, a persistent remote access tool. The operation demonstrates advanced evasion techniques, including kernel-level driver abuse, endpoint security tampering, and multi-stage obfuscation designed to evade detection and establish long-term system compromise. The campaign has been attributed…
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Arkanix Stealer Emerges as New Threat: Steals VPN Logins, Wi-Fi Credentials, and Screenshots
A newly discovered information-stealing malware called Arkanix is rapidly evolving to target sensitive user data, including VPN credentials, system information, and wireless network passwords. Security researchers have identified this emerging threat as a short-lived, profit-driven malware designed for quick financial exploitation through the sale of stolen data and direct credential compromise. The threat actors behind…
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Hackers Exploit Telegram, WinSCP, Chrome, and Teams to Deliver ValleyRat Malware
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign where threat actors weaponize trojanized installers for popular productivity applications to deploy ValleyRat, a persistent remote access tool. The operation demonstrates advanced evasion techniques, including kernel-level driver abuse, endpoint security tampering, and multi-stage obfuscation designed to evade detection and establish long-term system compromise. The campaign has been attributed…
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MuddyWater cyber campaign adds new backdoors in latest wave of attacks
ESET researchers say an Iran aligned threat group is refining its playbook again, and the latest activity shows how much its tactics have shifted. MuddyWater is a long running … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/02/eset-muddywater-cyber-campaign/
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MuddyWater cyber campaign adds new backdoors in latest wave of attacks
ESET researchers say an Iran aligned threat group is refining its playbook again, and the latest activity shows how much its tactics have shifted. MuddyWater is a long running … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/02/eset-muddywater-cyber-campaign/
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Glassworm Malware Targets OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio with 24 New Malicious Packages
Security threats rarely adhere to holiday schedules, and while developers may take time off, malicious actors are working overtime. A significant new wave of software supply chain attacks has been identified targeting the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and OpenVSX platforms. Researchers at Secure Annex have uncovered and tracked 24 new malicious packages linked to the…
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4.3 Million Chrome and Edge Users Hacked in 7-Year ShadyPanda Malware Campaign
Koi researchers have uncovered a seven-year browser extension operation that has silently compromised at least 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users worldwide. The threat actor, dubbed ShadyPanda, systematically abused browser marketplaces to turn seemingly legitimate extensions into long”‘term surveillance and remote access platforms. Koi’s investigation identified two ongoing campaigns linked to the same actor. A 300,000″‘user remote…
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Glassworm Malware Targets OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio with 24 New Malicious Packages
Security threats rarely adhere to holiday schedules, and while developers may take time off, malicious actors are working overtime. A significant new wave of software supply chain attacks has been identified targeting the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and OpenVSX platforms. Researchers at Secure Annex have uncovered and tracked 24 new malicious packages linked to the…
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Key questions CISOs must ask before adopting AI-enabled cyber solutions
Questions to ask vendors about their AI security offerings: There are several areas where CISOs will want to focus their attention when considering AI-powered cyber solutions, including the following:Shadow AI: Uncovering and addressing shadow AI throughout the organization is a key issue for security leaders today. But so too is ensuring that sanctioned AI-enabled solutions…
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Key questions CISOs must ask before adopting AI-enabled cyber solutions
Questions to ask vendors about their AI security offerings: There are several areas where CISOs will want to focus their attention when considering AI-powered cyber solutions, including the following:Shadow AI: Uncovering and addressing shadow AI throughout the organization is a key issue for security leaders today. But so too is ensuring that sanctioned AI-enabled solutions…
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Key questions CISOs must ask before adopting AI-enabled cyber solutions
Questions to ask vendors about their AI security offerings: There are several areas where CISOs will want to focus their attention when considering AI-powered cyber solutions, including the following:Shadow AI: Uncovering and addressing shadow AI throughout the organization is a key issue for security leaders today. But so too is ensuring that sanctioned AI-enabled solutions…
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Ransomware Threats Moving Out to the Edge
Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek on Ransomware Tactics and How to Mitigate Attacks in 2026. Ransomware attacks are reaching record highs, and 2026 may be even worse, said Christiaan Beek, senior director of threat intel and analytics at Rapid7. He warns that hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities as soon as they’re disclosed, and they’re focusing on flaws in…
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Ads Without Eyeballs: Online Shopping’s AI Agent Problem
E-Commerce Face Existential Threat as Autonomous Shoppers Bypass Ads. The online retail industry spent decades honing how to nudge people into clicking the buy button. Now it faces a customer who doesn’t want anything at all: the artificial intelligence shopping agent. Agentic commerce could hollow out retail media and force a shift in how platforms…