“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Node.js Malware Campaign Targets Crypto Users with Fake Binance and TradingView Installers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Microsoft is calling attention to an ongoing malvertising campaign that makes use of Node.js to deliver malicious payloads capable of information theft and data exfiltration. The activity, first detected in October 2024, uses lures related to cryptocurrency trading to trick users into installing a rogue installer from fraudulent websites that masquerade as legitimate software like…
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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Vulnerability in SonicWall SMA Devices [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Series gateways to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20035 (CVSS score: 7.2), relates to a case of operating system command injectionRead More
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Apple Patches Two Actively Exploited iOS Flaws Used in Sophisticated Targeted Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, tvOS, and visionOS to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-31200 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A memory corruption vulnerability in the Core Audio framework that could allow…
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Tips to find cyber insurance coverage in 2025
Most businesses have a form of cyber insurance, either through cyber liability and data breach endorsements in traditional business policies or through standalone cyber policies.Read More
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Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed four different vulnerabilities in a core component of the Windows task scheduling service that could be exploited by local attackers to achieve privilege escalation and erase logs to cover up evidence of malicious activities. The issues have been uncovered in a binary named “schtasks.exe,” which enables an administrator to create, delete,…
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What is Pretty Good Privacy and how does it work?
Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, was a popular program used to encrypt and decrypt email over the internet, as well as authenticate messages with digital signatures and encrypted stored files.Read More
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Google Blocked 5.1B Harmful Ads and Suspended 39.2M Advertiser Accounts in 2024 [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google on Wednesday revealed that it suspended over 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, with a majority of them identified and blocked by its systems before it could serve harmful ads to users. In all, the tech giant said it stopped 5.1 billion bad ads, restricted 9.1 billion ads, and blocked or restricted ads on…
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Gamma AI Platform Abused in Phishing Chain to Spoof Microsoft SharePoint Logins [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors are leveraging an artificial intelligence (AI) powered presentation platform named Gamma in phishing attacks to direct unsuspecting users to spoofed Microsoft login pages. “Attackers weaponize Gamma, a relatively new AI-based presentation tool, to deliver a link to a fraudulent Microsoft SharePoint login portal,” Abnormal Security researchers Hinman Baron and Piotr Wojtyla said inRead…
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From Third-Party Vendors to U.S. Tariffs: The New Cyber Risks Facing Supply Chains [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Introduction Cyber threats targeting supply chains have become a growing concern for businesses across industries. As companies continue to expand their reliance on third-party vendors, cloud-based services, and global logistics networks, cybercriminals are exploiting vulnerabilities within these interconnected systems to launch attacks. By first infiltrating a third-party vendor with undetectedRead More
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New BPFDoor Controller Enables Stealthy Lateral Movement in Linux Server Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new controller component associated with a known backdoor called BPFDoor as part of cyber attacks targeting telecommunications, finance, and retail sectors in South Korea, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Egypt in 2024. “The controller could open a reverse shell,” Trend Micro researcher Fernando Mercês said in a technical report published…
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