Malicious Npm Packages Abuse Adspect Cloaking in Crypto Scam
A malware campaign presents fake websites that can check if a visitor is a potential victim or a security researcher, and then proceed accordingly to defraud or evade.
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Bug Bounty Programs Rise as Key Strategic Security Solutions
Bug bounty programs create formal channels for organizations to leverage external security expertise, offering researchers legal protection and financial incentives for ethical vulnerability disclosure.
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Advancing Cybersecurity for Microsoft Environments
From certified MDR services to open threat intelligence frameworks, Sophos is delivering the clarity, context, and confidence organizations need to stay ahead of evolving threats.
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Meta Expands WhatsApp Security Research with New Proxy Tool and $4M in Bounties This Year
Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform’s network protocol. The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a…
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From point-in-time audits to continuous confidence: How Sophos IT transformed identity defense
“From logging in and connecting to Entra ID to seeing our first actionable findings — it took less than 45 minutes.”
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Researchers Detail Tuoni C2’s Role in an Attempted 2025 Real-Estate Cyber Intrusion
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a cyber attack targeting a major U.S.-based real-estate company that involved the use of a nascent command-and-control (C2) and red teaming framework known as Tuoni. “The campaign leveraged the emerging Tuoni C2 framework, a relatively new, command-and-control (C2) tool (with a free license) that delivers stealthy, in-memory payloads,”
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Iranian Hackers Use DEEPROOT and TWOSTROKE Malware in Aerospace and Defense Attacks
Suspected espionage-driven threat actors from Iran have been observed deploying backdoors like TWOSTROKE and DEEPROOT as part of continued attacks aimed at aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East. The activity has been attributed by Google-owned Mandiant to a threat cluster tracked as UNC1549 (aka Nimbus Manticore or Subtle Snail), which was first…
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Learn How Leading Companies Secure Cloud Workloads and Infrastructure at Scale
You’ve probably already moved some of your business to the cloud—or you’re planning to. That’s a smart move. It helps you work faster, serve your customers better, and stay ahead. But as your cloud setup grows, it gets harder to control who can access what. Even one small mistake—like the wrong person getting access—can lead…
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Beyond IAM Silos: Why the Identity Security Fabric is Essential for Securing AI and Non-Human Identities
Identity security fabric (ISF) is a unified architectural framework that brings together disparate identity capabilities. Through ISF, identity governance and administration (IGA), access management (AM), privileged access management (PAM), and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) are all integrated into a single, cohesive control plane. Building on Gartner’s definition of “identity
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Seven npm Packages Use Adspect Cloaking to Trick Victims Into Crypto Scam Pages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of seven npm packages published by a single threat actor that leverages a cloaking service called Adspect to differentiate between real victims and security researchers to ultimately redirect them to sketchy crypto-themed sites. The malicious npm packages, published by a threat actor named “dino_reborn” between September and November 2025,…