Category Security

Feb 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Threat actors have been observed exploiting multiple security flaws in various software products, including Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Advantive VeraCore, to drop reverse shells and web shells, and maintain persistent remote…

The Taliban government of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers successfully carried out a massive cyber attack against its computer systems and published over 50GB of stolen documents and files online. A group calling itself TabiLeaks publicised on social media…

Feb 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananUnited States Cisco has released updates to address two critical security flaws Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below –…

Feb 08, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Supply Chain Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the…

You arrive at the office, power up your system, and panic sets in. Every file is locked, and every system is frozen. A ransom demand flashes on your screen: “Pay $2 million in Bitcoin within 48 hours or lose everything.”…

Feb 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware The North Korea-linked nation-state hacking group known as Kimsuky has been observed conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver an information stealer malware named forceCopy, according to new findings from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center…

Privileged Access Management (PAM) has emerged as a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity strategies, shifting from a technical necessity to a critical pillar in leadership agendas. With the PAM market projected to reach $42.96 billion by 2037 (according to Research Nester),…

Spanish police have arrested a suspected cybercriminal who hacked and sold data stolen from numerous government organizations, as well as NATO and the US military. The National Police (Policia Nacional) teamed up with the Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) to detain…

A new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple’s and Google’s respective app stores to steal victims’ mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets. The attacks leverage an optical character recognition (OCR) model to…

Two of the UK’s leading cybersecurity agencies have published new guidance designed to help researchers and early-stage startups safeguard innovation in the country. GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) collaborated with MI5’s National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) to compile two…