A group of academics has disclosed details of over security vulnerabilities impacting LTE and G implementations that could be exploited by an attacker to disrupt access to service and even gain a foothold into the cellular core network. The vulnerabilities, assigned unique CVE...

   The modern workplace has undergone a seismic transformation over recent years, with hybrid work becoming the norm and businesses rapidly adopting cloud based Software as a Service SaaS applications to facilitate it. SaaS applications like Microsoft and Google Workspace have now become the...

   The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent information technology IT worker scheme that seeks to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic...

   Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. When you turn on Identity Check, your device will require explicit biometric authentication to access certain...

   The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday placed a now patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The medium severity vulnerability is CVE...

   An exhaustive evaluation of three firewall models from Palo Alto Networks has uncovered a host of known security flaws impacting the devices’ firmware as well as misconfigured security features. These weren’t obscure, corner case vulnerabilities, security vendor Eclypsium said in a report shared...

   Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware campaign that leverages fake CAPTCHA verification checks to deliver the infamous Lumma information stealer. The campaign is global, with Netskope Threat Labs tracking victims targeted in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, the...

   Are your websites leaking sensitive data New research reveals that of third party apps access user info without proper authorization, and of risk exposures in Retail are due to the excessive use of tracking tools. Learn how to uncover and mitigate these hidden threats and risks download...

   Enterprise grade Juniper Networks routers have become the target of a custom backdoor as part of a campaign dubbed J magic. According to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the activity is so named for the fact that the backdoor continuously monitors for a magic packet sent by the...

   An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using identical code for their ransomware payloads. The findings come from SentinelOne, which analyzed artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning...

   Despite significant investments in advanced technologies and employee training programs, credential and user based attacks remain alarmingly prevalent, accounting for of enterprise breaches , . While identity based attacks continue to dominate as the leading cause of security incidents,...

   SonicWall is alerting customers of a critical security flaw impacting its Secure Mobile Access SMA Series appliances that it said has been likely exploited in the wild as a zero day. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE , is rated . out of a maximum of . on the CVSS scoring...

   Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new BackConnect BC malware that has been developed by threat actors linked to the infamous QakBot loader. BackConnect is a common feature or module utilized by threat actors to maintain persistence and perform tasks, Walmart’s Cyber...

   Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Meeting Management that could permit a remote, authenticated attacker to gain administrator privileges on susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE , carries a CVSS score of . out . . It...

   The new Trump administration has terminated all memberships of advisory committees that report to the Department of Homeland Security DHS . In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s DHS commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize...

   Google on Wednesday shed light on a financially motivated threat actor named TRIPLESTRENGTH for its opportunistic targeting of cloud environments for cryptojacking and on premise ransomware attacks. This actor engaged in a variety of threat activity, including cryptocurrency mining operations on...

   Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security flaw since...

   As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward thinking security teams are looking for security controls and strategies to address...

   U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace, after spending more than years behind bars. I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the...

   A previously undocumented China aligned advanced persistent threat APT group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network VPN provider in , according to new findings from ESET. The attackers replaced the legitimate installer...

   Oracle is urging customers to apply its January Critical Patch Update CPU to address new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management PLM Framework CVE , CVSS score: . ...

   Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a . Terabit per second Tbps distributed denial of service DDoS attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol based attack took place on October , , targeting one of its...

   Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet variant dubbed Murdoc Botnet. The ongoing activity demonstrates enhanced capabilities, exploiting vulnerabilities...

   A global network of about , hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices. The activity take s advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques, ...

   A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity. Asif William Rahman, , of Vienna,...

   Imagine receiving a penetration test report that leaves you with more questions than answers. Questions like, Were all functionalities of the web app tested or Were there any security issues that could have been identified during testing often go unresolved, raising concerns about the...

   Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks that have targeted Chinese speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China with a known malware called ValleyRAT. The attacks leverage a multi stage loader dubbed PNGPlug to deliver the ValleyRAT payload,...

   The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT UA is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests. The AnyDesk requests claim to be for conducting an audit to assess the level of security, CERT UA added...

   New research has uncovered security vulnerabilities in multiple tunneling protocols that could allow attackers to perform a wide range of attacks. Internet hosts that accept tunneling packets without verifying the sender’s identity can be hijacked to perform anonymous attacks and provide access to...

   The Threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to a new Android malware as part of highly targeted cyber attacks. The artifacts in question, named Tanzeem meaning organization in Urdu and Tanzeem Update, were spotted in October and December by cybersecurity company Cyfirma. The apps...

   As the digital world becomes more complicated, the lines between national security and cybersecurity are starting to fade. Recent cyber sanctions and intelligence moves show a reality where malware and fake news are used as tools in global politics. Every cyberattack now seems to have deeper...

   Every week seems to bring news of another data breach, and it’s no surprise why: securing sensitive data has become harder than ever. And it’s not just because companies are dealing with orders of magnitude more data. Data flows and user roles are constantly shifting, and data is stored across...

   Cybersecurity researchers have identified three sets of malicious packages across the npm and Python Package Index PyPI repository that come with capabilities to steal data and even delete sensitive data from infected systems. The list of identified packages is below async mutex mutex, a...

   Popular video sharing social network TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States, as a federal ban on the app comes into effect on January , . We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable, the...

   The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency. People’s Republic of China linked...

   Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in Planet Technology’s WGS HPT industrial switches that could be chained to achieve pre authentication remote code execution on susceptible devices. These switches are widely used in building and home automation systems for a variety...

   Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new campaign that targets web servers running PHP based applications to promote gambling platforms in Indonesia. Over the past two months, a significant volume of attacks from Python based bots has been observed, suggesting a coordinated effort to exploit...

   Recent data breaches have highlighted the critical need to improve guest Wi Fi infrastructure security in modern business environments. Organizations face increasing pressure to protect their networks while providing convenient access to visitors, contractors, temporary staff, and employees with...

   Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new adversary in the middle AitM phishing kit that’s capable of Microsoft accounts with an aim to steal credentials and two factor authentication FA codes since at least October . The nascent phishing kit has been dubbed Sneaky FA by French...

   The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC sanctioned two individuals and four entities for their alleged involvement in illicit revenue generation schemes for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea DPRK by dispatching IT workers around the world to obtain...

   Austrian privacy non profit None of Your Business noyb has filed complaints accusing companies like TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi of violating data protection regulations in the European Union by unlawfully transferring users’ data to China. The advocacy group is seeking an...

   The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear phishing campaign that targets victims’ WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a likely attempt to evade detection. Star Blizzard’s targets are most commonly related to government...

   The digital world is exploding. IoT devices are multiplying like rabbits, certificates are piling up faster than you can count, and compliance requirements are tightening by the day. Keeping up with it all can feel like trying to juggle chainsaws while riding a unicycle. Traditional trust...

   You can tell the story of the current state of stolen credential based attacks in three numbers: Stolen credentials were the attacker action in , and the breach vector for of web app attacks. Source: Verizon . Cybersecurity budgets grew again in , with organizations now spending...

   Details have emerged about a now patched security vulnerability that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI systems. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE CVSS score: ., resides in a UEFI application signed by...

   Cybersecurity researchers have found that the Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy that’s designed to disable NT LAN Manager NTLM v can be trivially bypassed by a misconfiguration. A simple misconfiguration in on premise applications can override the Group Policy, effectively negating the...

   Threat actors have been observed concealing malicious code in images to deliver malware such as VIP Keylogger and bj ctivity Stealer as part of separate campaigns. In both campaigns, attackers hid malicious code in images they uploaded to archive . org, a file hosting website, and used the same ...

   Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access to deploy the RansomHub ransomware throughout the target network. According to GuidePoint Security,...

   Ivanti has rolled out security updates to address several security flaws impacting Avalanche, Application Control Engine, and Endpoint Manager EPM , including four critical bugs that could lead to information disclosure. All the four critical security flaws, rated . out of . on the CVSS scale...

   Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a new malvertising campaign that’s targeting individuals and businesses advertising via Google Ads by attempting to phish for their credentials via fraudulent ads on Google. The scheme consists of stealing as many advertiser accounts as possible by...