Tag: threat
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New 01Flip Ransomware Targets Both Windows and Linux Systems
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have identified a newly emerging ransomware family, 01flip, that represents a significant shift in malware development tactics. Discovered in June 2025, this sophisticated threat is entirely written in Rust a modern programming language that enables cross-platform compatibility and currently targets a limited set of victims across the…
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New DroidLock Malware Locks Android Devices and Demands Ransom Payment
The zLabs research team has identified a sophisticated new threat campaign targeting Spanish Android users through a malware strain called DroidLock. Unlike traditional ransomware that encrypts files, this Android-focused threat employs a more direct approach locking devices with ransomware-style overlays and demanding payment while maintaining complete control over compromised handsets. DroidLock primarily spreads through phishing…
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Attackers Worldwide are Zeroing In on React2Shell Vulnerability
Bad actors that include nation-state groups to financially-motivated cybercriminals from across the globe are targeting the maximum-severity but easily exploitable React2Shell flaw, with threat researchers see everything from probes and backdoors to botnets and cryptominers. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/attackers-worldwide-are-zeroing-in-on-react2shell-vulnerability/
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Grid-scale battery energy storage systems face heightened risk of cyberattack
Experts warn that state-linked threat groups are actively searching for ways to disrupt the industry amid growing power demand in the U.S. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/battery-energy-storage-systems-risk-cyberattack/807675/
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Attackers Worldwide are Zeroing In on React2Shell Vulnerability
Bad actors that include nation-state groups to financially-motivated cybercriminals from across the globe are targeting the maximum-severity but easily exploitable React2Shell flaw, with threat researchers see everything from probes and backdoors to botnets and cryptominers. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/attackers-worldwide-are-zeroing-in-on-react2shell-vulnerability/
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The Best Red Teaming Tools of 2026: What You Need to Know
As AI-generated threats continue to rise, more organisations are turning to red teaming to turn the tide. Nothing provides a better understanding of your security posture like letting a red team loose on your environment to simulate a real-world attack. Here is a list of some of the top red teaming tools you’ll find in 2026″, along with what you’ll need to know to make your choice. …
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OpenAI Enhances Defensive Models to Mitigate Cyber-Threats
OpenAI has reported a surge in performance as GPT-5.1-Codex-Max reaching 76% in capability assessments, and warned of upcoming cyber-risks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/openai-enhances-defensive-models/
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WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020.Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat actor…
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WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020.Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat actor…
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Teamwork is failing in slow motion and security feels it
Security leaders often track threats in code, networks, and policies. But a quieter risk is taking shape in the everyday work of teams. Collaboration is getting harder even as … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/11/forrester-teamwork-security-gaps-report/
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Threat Report 2025 Relevante SOC-Daten aus Deutschland und Schutzempfehlungen für IT-Entscheider
Controlware veröffentlicht mit dem Controlware Threat Report 2025 einen umfassenden Lagebericht zur aktuellen Cybersicherheitslage mit klarem Fokus auf Organisationen im DACH-Raum. Der Bericht basiert auf den Daten und Incident-Analysen aus dem unternehmenseigenen, ISO-27001-zertifizierten Security Operations Center (SOC) in Dietzenbach bei Frankfurt am Main und bietet Unternehmen und Behörden relevante und praxisnahe Daten und Empfehlungen zur……
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Preparing for Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna) EndLife: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: application-security, attack, business, cisco, cve, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, flaw, identity, intelligence, Internet, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, windowsCisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna) has long been a valuable partner for security teams. With its end-of-life now underway, Tenable One offers a clear path forward, delivering end-to-end unified exposure management for the future of risk management. Key takeaways: Tenable’s strong partnership with Cisco helps customers with a natural path forward and easy transition to…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Preparing for Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna) EndLife: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: application-security, attack, business, cisco, cve, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, flaw, identity, intelligence, Internet, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, windowsCisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna) has long been a valuable partner for security teams. With its end-of-life now underway, Tenable One offers a clear path forward, delivering end-to-end unified exposure management for the future of risk management. Key takeaways: Tenable’s strong partnership with Cisco helps customers with a natural path forward and easy transition to…
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How does Agentic AI empower cybersecurity teams?
Can Agentic AI Revolutionize Cybersecurity Practices? Where digital threats consistently challenge organizations, how can cybersecurity teams leverage innovations to bolster their defenses? Enter the concept of Agentic AI”, a technology that could serve as a powerful ally in the ongoing battle against cyber threats. By enhancing the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets security…
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Ring-fencing AI Workloads for NIST and ISO Compliance
AI is transforming enterprise productivity and reshaping the threat model at the same time. Unlike human users, agentic AI and autonomous agents operate at machine speed and inherit broad network permissions and embedded credentials. This creates new security and compliance… Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ring-fencing-ai-workloads-for-nist-and-iso-compliance/
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As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers
Prosecutors called criminal schemes to route computer chips to China a threat to U.S. national security, while Democrats have criticized the White House’s decision. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/white-house-sends-ai-chips-to-china-trump-doj-prosecutes-chip-smugglers/
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As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers
Prosecutors called criminal schemes to route computer chips to China a threat to U.S. national security, while Democrats have criticized the White House’s decision. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/white-house-sends-ai-chips-to-china-trump-doj-prosecutes-chip-smugglers/
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The Unseen Threat: DNA as Malware
The Next Major Cyber Risk Could Come Through a Biological Sample Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and processed, could trigger malware in sequencing software. When a vulnerability in a sequencer becomes a vulnerability in national health or food security, the stakes are existential. First…
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The Unseen Threat: DNA as Malware
The Next Major Cyber Risk Could Come Through a Biological Sample Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and processed, could trigger malware in sequencing software. When a vulnerability in a sequencer becomes a vulnerability in national health or food security, the stakes are existential. First…
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As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers
Prosecutors called criminal schemes to route computer chips to China a threat to U.S. national security, while Democrats have criticized the White House’s decision. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/white-house-sends-ai-chips-to-china-trump-doj-prosecutes-chip-smugglers/
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React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors
React2Shell continues to witness heavy exploitation, with threat actors leveraging the maximum-severity security flaw in React Server Components (RSC) to deliver cryptocurrency miners and an array of previously undocumented malware families, according to new findings from Huntress.This includes a Linux backdoor called PeerBlight, a reverse proxy tunnel named CowTunnel, and a Go-based First seen on…
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NIST Plans to Build Threat and Mitigation Taxonomy for AI Agents
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is building a taxonomy of attack and mitigations for securing artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Speaking at the AI Summit New York conference, Apostol Vassilev, a research team supervisor for NIST, told attendees that the arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce is working with industry partners..…
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2025 Year of Browser Bugs Recap:
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, browser, cctv, chrome, cloud, communications, computer, credentials, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, flaw, gartner, google, guide, identity, injection, leak, login, malicious, malware, network, openai, passkey, password, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, saas, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, xss, zero-dayAt the beginning of this year, we launched the Year of Browser Bugs (YOBB) project, a commitment to research and share critical architectural vulnerabilities in the browser. Inspired by the iconic Months of Bugs tradition in the 2000s, YOBB was started with a similar purpose”Š”, “Što drive awareness and discussion around key security gaps and…