Sophos Workspace Protection Enables Safe GenAI Adoption

Security budgets are lowest in healthcare, professional and business services, retail, and hospitality, but budget growth remained above 5% in financial services, insurance, and tech.

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new spear-phishing campaign that uses a legitimate remote access tool called Netbird to target Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and financial executives at banks, energy companies, insurers, and investment firms across Europe, Africa, Canada, the Middle East, and South Asia.  “In what appears to be a multi-stage phishing operation, the…

The AI era means attackers are smarter, faster, and hitting you where you least expect it — your sign-up funnel.

The threat actors trick victims into opening a malicious script, leading to the execution of the BroaderAspect .NET loader.

A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim’s machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at…