Unpacking 2024’s SaaS Threat Predictions
Early in 2024, Wing Security released its State of SaaS Security report, offering surprising insights into emerging threats and best...
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North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics
Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as...
Microsoft Delays AI-Powered Recall Feature for Copilot+ PCs Amid Security Concerns
Microsoft on Thursday revealed that it's delaying the rollout of the controversial artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs....
New Attack Technique ‘Sleepy Pickle’ Targets Machine Learning Models
The security risks posed by the Pickle format have once again come to the fore with the discovery of a...
Arid Viper Launches Mobile Espionage Campaign with AridSpy Malware
The threat actor known as Arid Viper has been attributed to a mobile espionage campaign that leverages trojanized Android apps...
Chinese FortiGate Espionage Campaign Snares 20,000+ Victims
A sophisticated Chinese espionage campaign targeting Fortinet edge devices was far more extensive than previously thought, resulting in the compromise...
Chinese Hackers Leveraging ‘Noodle RAT’ Backdoor
A backdoor in Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files used by Chinese hackers has wrongly been identified as a variant...
Microsoft Patches One Critical and One Zero-Day Vulnerability
System administrators have had a relatively quiet June Patch Tuesday after Microsoft revealed updates for just 51 vulnerabilities, only one...
70% of Cybersecurity Pros Often Work Weekends, 64% Looking for New Jobs
Over 70% of cybersecurity professionals often have to work weekends to address security concerns at their organization, according to a...
Scattered Spider Now Affiliated with RansomHub Following BlackCat Exit
The notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group has become an affiliate of the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operator, according to an analysis...
WithSecure Reveals Mass Exploitation of Edge Software and Infrastructure Appliances
Vulnerabilities in edge services and infrastructure devices are being increasingly exploited by cyber threat actors, according to a new report...
Ukrainian Cyber Police Identify Suspected LockBit and Conti Member
Police in Kyiv have “identified” a 28-year-old man on suspicion of working with big-name Russian ransomware groups to make their...
CISA Warns Phone Scammers Are Impersonating its Staff
A leading US security agency has warned people not to fall for a new phone-based impersonation fraud campaign, in which...
Ascension Attack Caused by Employee Downloading Malicious File
Ascension has revealed that ransomware attackers gained access to its systems after an employee accidently downloaded a malicious file.The incident,...
Arid Viper Hackers Spy in Egypt and Palestine Using Android Spyware
Researchers at cybersecurity provider ESET detected five cyber espionage campaigns starting in 2022, targeting Android users with trojanized apps in...
Kaspersky Finds 24 Flaws in Chinese Biometric Hardware Provider
Chinese hybrid biometric access systems provider ZkTeco is under scrutiny following a Kaspersky report revealing several new vulnerabilities in its...
Cyber Insurance Claims Hit Record High in North America
Cyber insurance claims in North America reached record levels in 2023, according to insurance broker Marsh.The firm received over 1800...
Active Exploitation of High-Severity Zero-Day Vulnerability in Google Pixel
Google has released updates addressing a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-32896) affecting their Pixel products. The vulnerability is reportedly being actively...
June 2024 Monthly Patch
Microsoft has released security patches to address multiple vulnerabilities in their software and products.The vulnerabilities that have been classified as...
UK and Canadian Privacy Regulators Investigate 23andMe
Genetic testing firm 23andMe is facing the combined scrutiny of the UK and Canadian data protection authorities following a major...
Phishing Attacks Targeting US and European Organizations Double
Phishing continues to be one of the most favored ways of compromising systems for hacking groups, Abnormal Security has found.In...
UK Police Arrest Two People for Smishing via Fake Cell Tower
UK police have arrested two individuals accused of sending thousands of SMS phishing (smishing) messages, posing as banks and other...
NVIDIA and Arm Urge Customers to Patch Bugs
NVIDIA and Arm have urged customers to upgrade their products after revealing a series of new vulnerabilities.Arm announced an actively...
Threat Actor Breaches Snowflake Customers, Victims Extorted
A cyber threat actor is suspected to have stolen a significant volume of customer data from data warehousing platform Snowflake,...
