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Expired Domains
13
Jan
2025

Expired Domains Allowed Control Over 4,000 Backdoors on Compromised Systems

Jan 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Domain Security No less than 4,000 unique web backdoors previously deployed by various threat actors…

WordPress Skimmers
13
Jan
2025

WordPress Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new stealthy credit card skimmer campaign that targets WordPress e-commerce checkout pages by inserting…

AI for Harmful Content Creation
11
Jan
2025

Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation

Jan 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Cybersecurity Microsoft has revealed that it’s pursuing legal action against a “foreign-based threat–actor group”…

Crypto Mixers Used in Cybercrime Laundering
11
Jan
2025

DoJ Indicts Three Russians for Operating Crypto Mixers Used in Cybercrime Laundering

Jan 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Crime / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday indicted three Russian nationals for…

AI-Driven Ransomware
10
Jan
2025

AI-Driven Ransomware FunkSec Targets 85 Victims Using Double Extortion Tactics

Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a nascent artificial intelligence (AI) assisted ransomware…

A Practical Guide for MSPs
10
Jan
2025

A Practical Guide for MSPs

Cybersecurity reporting is a critical yet often overlooked opportunity for service providers managing cybersecurity for their clients, and specifically for…

Scam Targeting Job Seekers
10
Jan
2025

CrowdStrike Warns of Phishing Scam Targeting Job Seekers with XMRig Cryptominer

Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptomining / Malware Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is alerting of a phishing campaign that exploits its own branding…

PlugX Malware
10
Jan
2025

RedDelta Deploys PlugX Malware to Target Mongolia and Taiwan in Espionage Campaigns

Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack Mongolia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia have been targeted by the China-nexus…

Samsung Devices
10
Jan
2025

Google Project Zero Researcher Uncovers Zero-Click Exploit Targeting Samsung Devices

Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Android Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patched security flaw impacting Monkey’s Audio (APE) decoder on…

Microsegmentation For all Users, Workloads and Devices by Elisity
10
Jan
2025

Microsegmentation For all Users, Workloads and Devices by Elisity

Network segmentation remains a critical security requirement, yet organizations struggle with traditional approaches that demand extensive hardware investments, complex policy…

Major Vulnerabilities Patched in SonicWall, Palo Alto Expedition, and Aviatrix Controllers
09
Jan
2025

Major Vulnerabilities Patched in SonicWall, Palo Alto Expedition, and Aviatrix Controllers

Jan 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Palo Alto Networks has released software patches to address several security flaws in…

New Banshee Stealer Variant Bypasses Antivirus with Apple's XProtect-Inspired Encryption
09
Jan
2025

New Banshee Stealer Variant Bypasses Antivirus with Apple’s XProtect-Inspired Encryption

Jan 09, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new, stealthier version of a macOS-focused information-stealing malware called Banshee Stealer….