“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Contact center monitoring best practices for CX leaders
A well-designed monitoring program identifies customer pain points and gathers valuable intelligence that can improve agent performance and CX, as well as products and services.Read More
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New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat’scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet’s targeting infrastructure. “Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,” Darktrace said in a new report.Read More
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Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that’s designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It’s capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures. “Built forRead…
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RSAC 2026: Cyber insurance and the rise of ransomware
At RSAC 2026, John Kindervag proposed the idea that the rise of the cyber insurance industry has motivated ransomware threat actors to escalate their attacks and ask for more.Read More
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APT28 Deploys PRISMEX Malware in Campaign Targeting Ukraine and NATO Allies [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suite codenamed PRISMEX. “PRISMEX combines advanced steganography, component object model (COM) hijacking, and legitimate cloud service abuse for command-and-control,” Trend MicroRead More
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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits outside the visibility of centralized IAM andRead More
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike,&Read More
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N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. “The threat actor’s packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling […], while quietly functioning as malware loaders, extending Contagious Interview’s established playbook into a coordinatedRead More
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TrueConf Zero-Day Attack
What is the Attack? Operation TrueChaos is a targeted cyber espionage campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the TrueConf video conferencing platform. The campaign primarily targets government entities in Southeast Asia by replacing a legitimate update with a malicious one. Threat actors effectively weaponized the product’s trusted update mechanism, transforming it into a covert malware…
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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. “These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financialRead More
“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.”
― Martina Navratilova