Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck. According to Secure Annex's John Tuckner, the...
Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven' Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made...
This is not what people mean when they say: 'You should get a side hustle' A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for...
Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from...
Questioning how Flock Safety protects sensitive user accounts, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi want the FTC to investigate the police surveillance tech provider.
Bad actors are increasingly training their sights on trucking and logistics companies with an aim to infect them with remote monitoring and management (RMM) software for financial gain and...
CyberSlop — meet the new threat actor, MIT and Safe SecurityCybersecurity vendors peddling nonsense isn’t new, but lately we have a new dimension — Generative AI. This has allowed vendors — and...
Cyberattacks are getting smarter and harder to stop. This week, hackers used sneaky tools, tricked trusted systems, and quickly took advantage of new security problems—some just hours after being...
The Tycoon 2FA phishing kit is a sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform that emerged in August 2023, designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor...
Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks...
Security Operations Centers (SOC) today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjusting detection rules reactively. SOCs...
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The Balancer Protocol announced that hackers had targeted its v2 pools, with losses reportedly estimated to be more than $128 million. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two different Android trojans called BankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT that are capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised devices. According to...
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has distributed a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed HttpTroy as part of a likely spear-phishing attack targeting a single victim in...
A remote access trojan dubbed SleepyDuck, and disguised as the well-known Solidity extension in the Open VSX open-source registry, uses an Ethereum smart contract to establish a communication...
At this very moment, nation-state actors and opportunistic criminals are looking for any way to target Americans and undermine our national security. Their battlefield of choice is cyberspace....
The United States sought to reassert itself as a top exporter of nuclear technology during President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia this week, pressing Japan and its big banks to help finance deals...
Learn how to detect malware that generates code at runtime. SentinelLABS reveals hunting techniques and how to uncover novel AI-enabled threats.
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center have detected a significant spike in suspicious network traffic targeting Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure worldwide. The...
Ryan Donaghy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official who held acting director roles in two of the cyberdefense agency’s divisions, is transitioning to the Transportation...
When Boris Nadezhdin gets in his car to cross several Russian regions each month, the opposition politician always travels with two phones. One is his official device. It’s attached to his main...
On October 18, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that all of its obligations under the 10-year-old Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—the Iran deal—have expired. This...
Wiz launches Attack Surface Scanner to bring context, ownership, and prioritization to every exposure, anywhere.
Microsoft security researchers have discovered a new backdoor malware that uses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control channel. [...]
On a scale of zero to ten: “twelve.” That’s how US President Donald Trump rated his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an air base in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. The two leaders...
A global ransomware survey released on Monday morning has some disturbing news for India—the nation’s digital space might be the most targeted and AI-exposed market globally. While it helps that...
Two drones raised alarms in the South Estonia region of Estonia on Oct. 17 when they appeared near the Reedo military barracks, resulting in one of the drones being shot down, according to an...
The “heist of the century” continues to rock France, and some newspapers have reported sensational security flaws in the world’s most visited museum. Official documents dating back to 2014 and...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a serious warning after confirming that a critical flaw in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2024-1086, is being actively...