“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Hazy Hawk Exploits DNS Records to Hijack CDC, Corporate Domains for Malware Delivery [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A threat actor known as Hazy Hawk has been observed hijacking abandoned cloud resources of high-profile organizations, including Amazon S3 buckets and Microsoft Azure endpoints, by leveraging misconfigurations in the Domain Name System (DNS) records. The hijacked domains are then used to host URLs that direct users to scams and malware via traffic distribution systems…
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100+ Fake Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Sessions, Stealing Credentials, Injecting Ads [email protected] (The Hacker News)
An unknown threat actor has been attributed to creating several malicious Chrome Browser extensions since February 2024 that masquerade as seemingly benign utilities but incorporate covert functionality to exfiltrate data, receive commands, and execute arbitrary code. “The actor creates websites that masquerade as legitimate services, productivity tools, ad and media creation or analysisRead More
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How to create a remote access policy, with template
Remote work, while beneficial, presents numerous security risks. Help keep your organization’s systems safe with a remote access policy.Read More
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Best practices for board-level cybersecurity oversight
Corporate boards must play an increasingly active role in overseeing cybersecurity strategies. Here’s what they need to know, from SEC disclosure requirements to best practices.Read More
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South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder. “The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,” Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and…
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AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts. “These roles, often created automatically or recommended during setup, grant overly broad permissions, such as full…
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The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report [email protected] (The Hacker News)
In the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises (200 from within the USA) to understand the strategies, tactics, and tools they use to cope with the thousands of security alerts, the persisting breaches and the growing cyber risks they have to handle. The findings reveal a complex…
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What is data security posture management (DSPM)?
Data security posture management, or DSPM, is an approach that combines technologies and processes to provide a holistic view of a company’s sensitive data, including where the data is, who has access to it, how it has been used and its security posture.Read More
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Chinese Hackers Deploy MarsSnake Backdoor in Multi-Year Attack on Saudi Organization [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat hunters have exposed the tactics of a China-aligned threat actor called UnsolicitedBooker that targeted an unnamed international organization in Saudi Arabia with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MarsSnake. ESET, which first discovered the hacking group’s intrusions targeting the entity in March 2023 and again a year later, said the activity leverages spear-phishing emails usingRead…
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Go-Based Malware Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts via Redis Configuration Abuse [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new Linux cryptojacking campaign that’s targeting publicly accessible Redis servers. The malicious activity has been codenamed RedisRaider by Datadog Security Labs. “RedisRaider aggressively scans randomized portions of the IPv4 space and uses legitimate Redis configuration commands to execute malicious cron jobs on vulnerable systems,”Read More
“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.”
― Martina Navratilova