Why CISOs Must Rethink Incident Remediation
Big companies are getting smaller, and their CEOs want everyone to know it. Wells Fargo has cut its workforce by 23% over five years, Bank…
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GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security
Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Malware GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near…
BadIIS Malware Spreads via SEO Poisoning — Redirects Traffic, Plants Web Shells
Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananSEO Poisoning / Malware Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign likely undertaken by a Chinese-speaking…
ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks
Organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia have emerged as the target of a phishing campaign undertaken by a previously undocumented hacking group called ComicForm since…
How to Gain Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities
We hear this a lot: “We’ve got hundreds of service accounts and AI agents running in the background. We didn’t create most of them. We…
Microsoft Patches Critical Entra ID Flaw Enabling Global Admin Impersonation Across Tenants
A critical token validation failure in Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) could have allowed attackers to impersonate any user, including Global Administrators, across…
DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed leveraging ClickFix-style lures to deliver a…
LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer
Sep 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Malware LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS users through fake GitHub repositories…
ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent
Sep 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent that could allow an…
Researchers Uncover GPT-4-Powered MalTerminal Malware Creating Ransomware, Reverse Shell
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest example known to date of a malware with that bakes in Large Language Model (LLM)…
ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent
Sep 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent that could allow an…
UNC1549 Hacks 34 Devices in 11 Telecom Firms via LinkedIn Job Lures and MINIBIKE Malware
An Iran-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC1549 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting European telecommunications companies, successfully infiltrating 34 devices across 11…