“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Critical SAP Exploit, AI-Powered Phishing, Major Breaches, New CVEs & More [email protected] (The Hacker News)
What happens when cybercriminals no longer need deep skills to breach your defenses? Today’s attackers are armed with powerful tools that do the heavy lifting — from AI-powered phishing kits to large botnets ready to strike. And they’re not just after big corporations. Anyone can be a target when fake identities, hijacked infrastructure, and insider…
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How Breaches Start: Breaking Down 5 Real Vulns [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Not every security vulnerability is high risk on its own – but in the hands of an advanced attacker, even small weaknesses can escalate into major breaches. These five real vulnerabilities, uncovered by Intruder’s bug-hunting team, reveal how attackers turn overlooked flaws into serious security incidents. 1. Stealing AWS Credentials with a Redirect Server-Side Request…
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Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a “sophisticated” campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Earth Kurma since June 2024. The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage services for data exfiltration. The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia are among…
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Cisco AI Defense embeds with ServiceNow SecOps tools
Cisco AI Defense will feed in data and automate AI governance in ServiceNow SecOps products as enterprises seek a platform approach to cybersecurity.Read More
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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to…
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Cisco, former Google, Meta experts train cybersecurity LLM
Cisco’s new Foundation AI group, which includes engineers from multiple companies, has released a compact AI reasoning model based on Llama 3 for cybersecurity to open source.Read More
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Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the below vulnerabilities – CVE-2024-58136 (CVSS score: 9.0) – An improper protection of alternate path flaw…
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Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the below vulnerabilities – CVE-2024-58136 (CVSS score: 9.0) – An improper protection of alternate path flaw…
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7 stages of the ransomware lifecycle
It can be nearly impossible to predict if or how a ransomware group will target an organization, but there are knowable stages of a ransomware attack.Read More
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What is a risk map (risk heat map)?
A risk map, or risk heat map, is a data visualization tool for communicating specific risks an organization faces.Read More
“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.”
― Martina Navratilova