New Threats, Vulnerabilities
February 11, 2025
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Abandoned AWS Cloud Storage: A Major Cyberattack Vector

Everything old is exploitable again? DarkReading reports: Abandoned cloud storage buckets present a major, but largely overlooked, threat to Internet security, new research has shown. The risks arise when bad actors discover and re-register these neglected digital repositories under their original name, and then use them to deliver malware or carry out other malicious actions […]

New Threats
February 04, 2025
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Hackers Hijack AI: Google Warns Of Gemini Misuse By Cybercriminals

If you haven’t been paying attention to warnings that criminals are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them research targets, craft better phishing lures, and writing malware, here’s another warning. This one comes from Google. As reported by Forbes: While AI assistants like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT offer incredible benefits, they are also being […]

New Threats, News
January 28, 2025
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How GhostGPT Empowers Cybercriminals with Uncensored AI

Need a well-written phishing email but your English is not up to snuff? For a mere $50.00, you can get a chatbot to write malicious code for you. Abnormal Security reports: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have changed the way we tackle day-to-day tasks, but cybercriminals are twisting that same technology for illegal activities. In 2023, WormGPT made […]

New Threats, Miscellaneous News
January 12, 2025
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Critical Warning For 100 Million Apple Users—New Hack Attack Confirmed

Forbes reports that some new research suggests that 100 million macOS users are at risk from a new attack involving a Banshee Stealer variant: A new variant of the macOS Banshee Stealer threat, capable of hacking browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and other sensitive data, has been monitored by security researchers since late last year. Now those […]

New Threats, News, Vulnerabilities
November 19, 2024
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One Million Websites Vulnerable To Dangerous Sitting Duck Cyber Attacks

As Forbes reports, hijacking internet domains is nothing new, but a new Infoblox report reveals how the threat has evolved into an ongoing attack methodology. Forbes explains: The sitting duck cyber attacks are, Infoblox said, “easy to execute for actors, hard to detect for security teams.” To understand why you need to look at what vulnerability […]

Commentaries and Analyses, New Threats, Vulnerabilities
September 02, 2024
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Microsoft says North Korean hackers stole crypto through Chromium

A vulnerability on multiple web browsers was exploited by the Citrine Sleet threat actor to steal crypto from its victims, according to Microsoft. A Microsoft report claims a North Korean threat actor has been exploiting a flaw on Chromium to steal cryptocurrency. The company’s security blog attributed the exploitation of this bug “with medium confidence” […]

Chinese hackers are increasingly deploying ransomware – researchers

Researchers at Sentinel Labs and Recorded Future report that Chinese-linked cyberespionage campaigns are increasingly deploying ransomware. CyberScoop reports that their research suggests that ransomware is reportedly used in the final stage of cyberespionage operations to either make money, distract adversaries, or make it more difficult to attribute their work: The report that Chinese hackers are […]

Vulnerabilities, Data Breach News, New Threats, News
April 13, 2024
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Sisense breach and Palo Alto Networks vulnerability made for a busy week for CISOs

Sisense Security Week reports: The US government cybersecurity agency CISA on Thursday issued a red-alert for what appears to be a massive supply chain breach at Sisense, a New York company that sells big-data analytics tools to businesses. In a cryptic note, CISA warned of a recent “compromise of Sisense customer data” that was discovered […]