AWWA Supports Introduction of Collaborative Cybersecurity Legislation

What if attackers aren’t breaking in—they’re already inside, watching, and adapting? This week showed a sharp rise in stealth tactics built for long-term access and silent control. AI is being used to shape opinions. Malware is hiding inside software we trust. And old threats are returning under new names. The real danger isn’t just the…

Threat hunters have uncovered a new threat actor named UAT-5918 that has been attacking critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan since at least 2023. “UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in…

The emerging threat group is the latest to adopt the combo attack tactic, which Black Basta and other groups already are using to gain initial access for ransomware deployment.

As the region continues with its ambitious road map, cybersecurity must be woven into every step of the process.

Between March and December of last year, infamous Chinese state-sponsored APT Salt Typhoon gained access to sensitive US National Guard data.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a malware loader called Hijack Loader that implements new features to evade detection and establish persistence on compromised systems. “Hijack Loader released a new module that implements call stack spoofing to hide the origin of function calls (e.g., API and system calls),” Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher Muhammed Irfan…