What Is Attack Surface Management?
Attack surfaces are growing faster than security teams can keep up – to stay ahead, you need to know what’s exposed and where attackers are…
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Now Targets 1,030 Sites and 73 Financial Institutions
Feb 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Security / Malware Brazilian Windows users are the target of a campaign that delivers a banking malware known as Coyote. “Once…
Crazy Evil Gang Targets Crypto with StealC, AMOS, and Angel Drainer Malware
A Russian-speaking cybercrime gang known as Crazy Evil has been linked to over 10 active social media scams that leverage a wide range of tailored…
U.S. and Dutch Authorities Dismantle 39 Domains Linked to BEC Fraud Network
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Fraud Prevention U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have announced that they have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers…
BeyondTrust Zero-Day Breach Exposed 17 SaaS Customers via Compromised API Key
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day BeyondTrust has revealed it completed an investigation into a recent cybersecurity incident that targeted some of the company’s Remote…
Meta Confirms Zero-Click WhatsApp Spyware Attack Targeting 90 Journalists, Activists
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Surveillance Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and…
Malvertising Scam Uses Fake Google Ads to Hijack Microsoft Advertising Accounts
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that’s targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to…
CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about…
Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024
Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than…
Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns
Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of…
Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks
Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No…
Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for…