As DDoS attackers become more sophisticated and the attack surface grows exponentially, businesses must expand beyond an ideology of prevention to include a focus on early detection and response.

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Senator Ron Wyden wants the FTC and SEC to investigate the ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change subsidiary to see if there was criminal negligence by the CEO or board.

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In “Living off the Land attacks,” adversaries use USB devices to infiltrate industrial control systems. Cyberthreats from silent residency attacks put critical infrastructure facilities at risk.

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Daft name, serious risk: Kit from ActionTec and Sagemcom remotely ruined and required replacement.

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What we know so far: A Ticketmaster AWS instance was penetrated by unknown perpetrators; “ShinyHunters” is selling stolen data on their behalf. Don’t forget to add the hidden 5% fee to the ransom.

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The group behind the RedTail malware is exploiting a new vulnerability in Palo Alto Network's PAN-OS software to run a sophisticated cryptomining campaign that is likely backed by North Korea.

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We are in an age when cybercriminals routinely steal credentials, and with so few organizations limiting privileges cloud security issues are rife.

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Another day, another PyPI malware package. But this one has a new way to (try to) sneak into your computer.

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The funding cutbacks announced in February have continued to hobble NIST’s ability to keep the government’s National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD) up to date, with one cybersecurity company finding that more than 93% of the flaws added have not been analyzed or enhanced, a problem that will make organizations less safe. “With the recent slowdown of..

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Ticket to Hide: A threat group hacked 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster customer data, including payment information. It’s threatening to release the personal data unless a ransom is paid.

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People who fall for the scheme are told to pay the shipping fee before the piano is sent. If they do, that's the last they hear from the bad actors.

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A hacker group claims to have stolen sensitive data from at least 500,000 Christie's customers. Now they are threatening to publish it.

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Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Steve Winterfeld Security experts have many fun arguments about our field. For example, while I believe War Games is the best hacker movie, opinions vary based on age and generation. Other never-ending debates include what the best hack is, the best operating system (though this is more of a religious debate), […]

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Need to get your audience’s attention so they listen to your cybersecurity lessons? Share these true stories to engage their attention and, perhaps, make them laugh.

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OpenAI has a new Safety and Security Committee in place fewer than two weeks after disbanding its “superalignment” team, a year-old unit that was tasked with focusing on the long-term effects of AI.

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Scammers impersonating Microsoft, Publishers Clearing House, Amazon and Apple are at the top of the FTC’s “who’s who” list. Based on consumer reports and complaints to the agency, hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen by bad actors pretending to be brands.

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As threats increase in sophistication—in many cases powered by GenAI itself—GenAI will play a growing role in combatting them.

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Cyber attack tactics are evolving, according to a new report, from advanced campaigns to exploiting weaknesses, and cybersecurity teams should be optimally employed.

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Threat actors compromised a popular audio-visual software package used in courtrooms, prisons, government, and lecture rooms around the world by injecting a loader malware that gives the hackers remote access to infected systems, collecting data about the host computer and downloading more malicious payloads along the way. The software supply chain attack targeted Justice AV..

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The ransomware resizes system partitions to create a new boot partition, ensuring the encrypted files are loaded during system startup, which locks out the user.

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Inglorious Basta(rds): 16 days on, huge hospital system continues to be paralyzed by ransomware—and patient safety is at risk.

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Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Nathan Eddy Human error is responsible for most cybersecurity risks, with nearly three-quarters (74%) of chief information security officers (CISOs) identifying it as their most significant vulnerability. In response, 87% of CISOs are adopting AI-powered technology to protect against human error and to block advanced human-centric cyber threats. These were among […]

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It’s the wetware. It’s always the wetware.

But that’s not the only takeaway from this year’s Voice of the CISO report.

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“All tested LLMs remain highly vulnerable to basic jailbreaks, and some will provide harmful outputs even without dedicated attempts to circumvent their safeguards,” the report noted.

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Privacy FAIL: Apple location service returns far more data than it should, to people who have no business knowing it, without your permission.

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The vulnerability affects all GHES versions prior to 3.13.0 and achieves the highest possible CVSS score of 10. Instances with SAML SSO authentication are at risk.

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88% of participants in the Immersive “Prompt Injection Challenge” successfully tricked a GenAI bot into divulging sensitive information.

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Deepfake Zoom of Doom: Construction giant Arup Group revealed as victim of January theft—10% of net profit lost.

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According to a global Arctic Wolf survey of over 1,000 senior IT and cybersecurity decision-makers, seven in 10 organizations were targeted by BEC attacks in the past year.

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The custom policy wizard helps prevent data leaks in GenAI tools by using CDP, requires no coding, and offers adaptive, intuitive policies.

“The real threat is in unstructured data, the kind of problem that requires data scientists and developers to solve.”

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Reverse-engineering tools, rising jailbreaking activities, and the surging use of AI and ML to enhance malware development were among the worrying trends in a recent report.

AI and ML are making life easier for developers. They’re also making life easier for threat actors.

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Legacy systems are attractive targets to bad actors because outdated components often mean that security vulnerabilities remain unpatched, offering exploitable footholds. “End of life” does not mean “end of vulnerability.”

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Malicious actors are using AI to perpetrate phishing scams centered around website impersonation, a threat few businesses are prepared to combat.

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Web application development and usage are at an all-time high, but businesses aren’t sure which APIs to monitor or how to protect them.

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It took two brothers who went to MIT months to plan how they were going to steal, launder and hide millions of dollars in cryptocurrency -- and only 12 seconds to actually pull off the heist.

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WTH? DPRK IT WFH: Justice Department says N. Korean hackers are getting remote IT jobs, posing as Americans.

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Overall ransomware frequency grew by 64% in 2023, with increases in both direct and indirect ransomware. Victims paid $282,000 in ransom on average, a 77% drop in price, and half the companies avoided paying a ransom completely.

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Hackers can find templates for DocuSign and other companies for their phishing campaigns on dark web marketplaces for as little as $10.

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One in three office workers who use GenAI admit to sharing customer info, employee details and financial data with the platforms. Are you worried yet?

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VFCFinder analyzes commit histories to pinpoint the most likely commits associated with vulnerability fixes.

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Palo Alto Networks is acquiring the QRadar SaaS offerings from IBM, and then will migrate users to its Cortex XSIAM SOC delivered as a cloud service.

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The operators behind the Ebury server-side malware botnet have been doing business since at least 2009 and, according to the threat researchers who have been tracking it for the last decade, are stronger and more active than ever. The malware has compromised at least 400,000 Linux servers over the past 15 years, with about 100,000..

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Phish Ahoy! Hacker took advantage of Dell’s lack of anti-scraping defense.

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The Biden Administration is moving to cybersecurity standards for hospitals, but the AHA is pushing back, saying voluntary models are enough.

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New account passwords, often used during onboarding, are vulnerable to sophisticated attacks from malicious actors.

Good idea to check: What’s your company using?

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It was probably inevitable. Threat researchers detected bad actors using stolen credentials to target LLMs, with the eventual goal of selling the access to other hackers.

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Будет! Russian ransomware rascals riled a Roman Catholic healthcare organization.

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Modern CISOs have a new task cut out for them: determining how to navigate AI as both challenge and opportunity.

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Bad actors are always ready to exploit political strife to their own ends. Right now, they’re doing so with the conflict in the Middle East. A holistic defense against influence networks requires collaboration between government, technology companies and security research organizations.

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