When attackers repurpose legitimate binaries like curl.exe to tunnel through SOCKS proxies and access .onion domains, it poses a major visibility gap for defenders. These behaviors can signal C2...
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Microsoft has resolved an issue with a machine learning model that mistakenly flagged emails from Gmail accounts as spam in Exchange Online. [...]
Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless by default" to secure them against password attacks such as phishing, brute force, and credential stuffing. [...]
The term proof is used for loosely in the blockchain industry. Originally with Bitcoin, proof of work was used as an anti-spam technique. It relies on the probabilistic assumption takes a certain...
In Scroll zkEVM rollups, transactions occur in two main steps: EVM executes all transactions, performs state transitions and then sends the transaction to the provers. zkEVM prover proves the...
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models...
Federal law enforcement officials accuse Artem Stryzhak, who was arrested in Spain last year, of attacking and extorting multiple companies between 2018 and 2021. The post Ukrainian extradited to...
Federal law enforcement officials accuse Artem Stryzhak, who was arrested in Spain last year, of attacking and extorting multiple companies between 2018 and 2021. The post Ukrainian extradited to...
SAN FRANCISCO — The senior director for cyber at the White House’s National Security Council told an audience Thursday that he wants to “destigmatize” offensive cyber operations, seeing them as a...
Sonatype discovered ‘crypto-encrypt-ts’, a malicious npm package impersonating the popular CryptoJS library to steal crypto and personal data.…
Programs leveraging AI agents are increasingly popular. Nine attack scenarios using open-source agent frameworks show how bad actors target these applications. The post AI Agents Are Here. So Are...
Security audits are a crucial component of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. However, despite their importance, they are not as commonly conducted as you might think.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a security plugin. The plugin, which goes by the name "WP-antymalwary-bot.php,"...
Cryptography experts said a “Cambrian explosion” of standards is on its way as a response to worries over quantum computers breaking current algorithms. The post Quantum computer threat spurring...
SEO: Cybercriminals are using the recent power outages in Spain and Portugal to launch phishing attacks disguised as…
A California man who used the alias "NullBulge" has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney's internal Slack channels and stealing over 1.1 terabytes of internal company data. [...]
U.S. legislation to criminalize non-consensual intimate images, videos and deepfakes has passed Congress with the overwhelming support of both parties, and even social media companies have voiced...
The Justice Department accuses two men of running a “network of nihilistic violent extremists” who engaged in and facilitated the grooming, manipulation and extortion of minors. The post Leaders...
The Justice Department accuses two men of running a “network of nihilistic violent extremists” who engaged in and facilitated the grooming, manipulation and extortion of minors. The post Leaders...
Joe talks about how helping the helpers can put a fire in you and the importance of keeping nonprofits cybersecure.
Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are facing a fundamentally new challenge — traditional cybersecurity tools are failing to detect advanced adversaries who have become experts at evading...
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts...
Russia-aligned hacktivists persistently target key public and private organizations in the Netherlands with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, causing access problems and service...
Anthropic has found its Claude chatbot is being used for automated political messaging, enabling AI-driven influence campaigns
A Ukrainian national has been extradited from Spain to the United States to face charges over allegedly conducting Nefilim ransomware attacks against companies. [...]
Concerned about the fate of sensitive genetic information, the ICO and OPC have demanded that 23andMe prioritize customer data protection throughout its bankruptcy process
For over a decade, application security teams have faced a brutal irony: the more advanced the detection tools became, the less useful their results proved to be. As alerts from static analysis...