Tag: vpn
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Storm-2561 Uses Fake Fortinet, Ivanti VPN Sites to Drop Hyrax Infostealer
In mid-January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a devious way that cybercriminals are tricking people into giving away… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/storm-2561-fake-fortinet-ivanti-vpn-sites-hyrax-infostealer/
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Surfshark vs NordVPN (2026): Which VPN Wins? Full Breakdown
Tags: vpnNordVPN or Surfshark? Compare speed, security, price, streaming, unique features, and more in our detailed 2026 VPN review. Find your match. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/networks/surfshark-vs-nordvpn/
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How searching for a VPN could mean handing over your work login details
What looks like a legit VPN download could be a trap, as SEO poisoning is being used to steal corporate logins. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/how-searching-for-a-vpn-could-mean-handing-over-your-work-login-details/
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New CondiBot Variant and ‘Monaco’ Miner Target More Network Devices
Over the past few years, the enterprise attack surface has shifted decisively toward network infrastructure, with attackers increasingly abusing routers, VPNs, firewalls, and other edge devices for initial access and long”‘term persistence. Research from Verizon and others has documented an almost eight”‘fold rise in exploitation of network and edge devices in recent years, with these…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 567 by Pierluigi Paganini INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Starbucks data breach impacts 889 employees Storm-2561 lures victims to spoofed VPN sites to harvest corporate…
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Storm-2561 lures victims to spoofed VPN sites to harvest corporate logins
Attackers linked to Storm-2561 use SEO-poisoned search results to lure users to fake Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet VPN sites that steal corporate login credentials. In mid-January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts uncovered a credential-theft campaign attributed to Storm-2561. Threat actor is spreading fake enterprise VPN clients impersonating Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet software. By poisoning search engine…
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Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others
And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/vpn_clients_spoofed/
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Fake enterprise VPN sites used to steal company credentials
A threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is distributing fake enterprise VPN clients from Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet to steal VPN credentials from unsuspecting users. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-enterprise-vpn-downloads-used-to-steal-company-credentials/
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Fake enterprise VPN sites used to steal company credentials
A threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is distributing fake enterprise VPN clients from Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet to steal VPN credentials from unsuspecting users. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-enterprise-vpn-downloads-used-to-steal-company-credentials/
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Storm-2561 Spreads Trojan VPN Clients via SEO Poisoning to Steal Credentials
Microsoft has disclosed details of a credential theft campaign that employs fake virtual private network (VPN) clients distributed through search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques.”The campaign redirects users searching for legitimate enterprise software to malicious ZIP files on attacker-controlled websites to deploy digitally signed trojans that masquerade as trusted VPN clients First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Fake enterprise VPN downloads used to steal company credentials
A threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is distributing fake enterprise VPN clients from Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet to steal VPN credentials from unsuspecting users. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-enterprise-vpn-downloads-used-to-steal-company-credentials/
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Storm-2561 Uses SEO Poisoning, Fake Signed VPN Apps to Steal Enterprise Credentials
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is running a credential theft campaign that abuses SEO poisoning and fake, signed VPN installers to steal enterprise VPN credentials. Active since May 2025, Storm-2561 continues to exploit user trust in search results, known VPN brands, and code-signing certificates to distribute malware disguised as legitimate remote access…
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Storm-2561 targets enterprise VPN users with SEO poisoning, fake clients
vpn-fortinet[.]com and ivanti-vpn[.]org, hosting malicious ZIP files on GitHub, the advisory said.The malware itself arrives as a ZIP file containing a Windows Installer package. When a user launches the downloaded installer, it drops a fake Pulse Secure application into a directory that closely mimics a legitimate Pulse Secure installation path, Microsoft said.”This installation path blends…
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Storm-2561 targets enterprise VPN users with SEO poisoning, fake clients
vpn-fortinet[.]com and ivanti-vpn[.]org, hosting malicious ZIP files on GitHub, the advisory said.The malware itself arrives as a ZIP file containing a Windows Installer package. When a user launches the downloaded installer, it drops a fake Pulse Secure application into a directory that closely mimics a legitimate Pulse Secure installation path, Microsoft said.”This installation path blends…
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The OT security time bomb: Why legacy industrial systems are the biggest cyber risk nobody wants to fix
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, firewall, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, ISO-27001, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, office, phishing, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, siem, soc, stuxnet, supply-chain, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhy everyone knows it’s burning, but nobody pulls the fire alarm: When I talk to OT managers, production leads or plant engineers, I rarely hear, “We didn’t know we had a problem.” Far more often, it’s, “We know it’s critical, but we can’t just shut it down.” This gap between awareness and action is the…
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PQC roadmap remains hazy as vendors race for early advantage
Tags: attack, cisco, communications, control, crypto, cryptography, data, encryption, finance, firmware, gartner, google, grc, guide, Hardware, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, nist, risk, software, technology, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilitySome are already ahead as the migration question looms: One of the earliest vendors to operationalize cryptographic discovery specifically for PQC readiness was Sandbox AQ, which emerged from Google’s quantum research efforts. As early as 2022, the company argued that enterprises needed to inventory cryptography assets long before post-quantum algorithms could be deployed at scale.Initially…
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Zero-day exploits hit enterprises faster and harder
Tags: access, apple, attack, backdoor, business, china, cisco, cve, data, detection, endpoint, espionage, exploit, firewall, flaw, fortinet, google, group, hacker, infrastructure, ivanti, least-privilege, mobile, network, oracle, radius, ransomware, risk, router, russia, service, software, technology, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayEnterprise environments under siege: Chinese threat actors continued to display a preference for targets that are difficult to monitor and allow persistent access to strategic networks. Notable examples include the groups that GTIG tracks as UNC5221, which exploited a flaw in Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-0282) and UNC3886, which exploited a vulnerability in Juniper routers (CVE-2025-21590).Another…
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Europa im Visier von Cyber-Identitätsdieben
Deutsche Unternehmen müssen sich warm anziehen: Sowohl staatliche als auch ‘private” Akteure haben es auf sie abgesehen.ShutterstockWie die Experten von Darktrace in ihrem aktuellen Threat Report 2026 darstellen, bleiben Cloud- und E-Mail-Konten das Einfallstor Nummer Eins in Europa. Dem Bericht zufolge begannen im vergangenen Jahr in Europa 58 Prozent der Attacken mit kompromittierten Cloud-Accounts oder…
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Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities
root access to the device.”And CVE-2026-20131 is described thusly: “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and elevate privileges to root.”There are no workarounds for either…
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Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities
root access to the device.”And CVE-2026-20131 is described thusly: “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and elevate privileges to root.”There are no workarounds for either…
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Google says half of all zero-days it tracked in 2025 targeted buggy enterprise tech
Enterprise software was a major focus of zero-day activity during 2025, with security and networking devices, like firewalls, VPNs, and virtualization platforms, among the top targeted by malicious hackers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/google-says-half-of-all-zero-days-it-tracked-in-2025-targeted-buggy-enterprise-tech/
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Does the UK really want to ban VPNs? And can it be done?
Tags: vpnReports of a “Great British Firewall” are exaggerated. And even if they wanted to, here’s why it would be virtually impossible. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/does-the-uk-really-want-to-ban-vpns-and-can-it-be-done/
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How a Brute Force Attack Unmasked a Ransomware Infrastructure Network
A routine RDP brute-force alert led to unusual credential hunting and a geo-distributed VPN-linked infrastructure. Huntress Labs explains how one compromised login unraveled a suspected ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem tied to initial access brokers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-a-brute-force-attack-unmasked-a-ransomware-infrastructure-network/
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Iranian cyberattacks fail to materialize but threat remains acute
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, ceo, control, country, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, endpoint, finance, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, malware, mfa, monitoring, phishing, risk, service, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vpnTargeting and response: According to Adrian Cheek, a senior cybercrime researcher at Canadian threat intelligence company Flare, the most at-risk sectors are critical infrastructure, including the defense and government supply chain, financial services, energy, and healthcare.”Water, energy, and healthcare sectors are currently the most exposed. These sectors combine high targeting priority with weak baseline security,…
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IPVanish VPN for macOS Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation and Code Execution
A high-severity security vulnerability has been discovered in the IPVanish VPN application for macOS. This flaw allows any unprivileged local user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges without requiring any user interaction. The attack bypasses standard macOS security features, including code signature verification, and grants a local attacker complete control over the compromised system.”‹…
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AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning
100-plus prebuilt tool recipes and a human-readable YAML-based extension system;Attack-chain graph, risk scoring, and “step-by-step replay”;Password-protected web user interfaces (UIs) and audit logs;A knowledge base with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and searchable archives;Vulnerability management with create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations, severity tracking, status workflow, and statistics;Batch task management that can organize task queues and…
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Hackers Exploit Telegram for Initial Access to Corporate VPN, RDP, and Cloud Systems
Tags: access, cloud, corporate, credentials, cyber, data-breach, exploit, hacker, marketplace, network, ransomware, vpnHackers are increasingly abusing Telegram as an initial access marketplace, turning stealer logs and leaked credentials into direct entry points for corporate VPN, RDP, and cloud environments. The platform now acts as a high-speed bridge between compromised credentials and full network compromise, supporting ransomware operators, Initial Access Brokers (IABs), and hacktivist collectives. Telegram hosts popular…
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Hackers Launch Massive SonicWall Firewall Attack Using 4,000+ IP Addresses
Hackers are actively mapping SonicWall firewalls worldwide, launching more than 84,000 SonicOS scanning sessions from over 4,000 unique IP addresses in just four days to identify SSL VPN targets for future credential and vulnerability attacks. Three operationally distinct infrastructure clusters coordinated large-scale VPN enumeration, with 92% of all sessions hitting a single SonicOS REST API…
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12 Million exposed .env files reveal widespread security failures
Mysterium VPN found 12M IPs exposing .env files, leaking credentials and revealing widespread security misconfigurations worldwide. Configuration mistakes rarely trigger alarms. A forgotten deny rule, an overlooked server setting, or a full project folder uploaded to production can quietly expose a company’s most sensitive secrets. In many cases, those secrets live inside simple environment files…