CISA Makes Unpublicized Ransomware Updates to KEV Catalog
A third of the “flipped” CVEs affected network edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, “Ransomware operators are building playbooks around your perimeter.”
A third of the “flipped” CVEs affected network edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, “Ransomware operators are building playbooks around your perimeter.”
By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage “executables that don’t always receive executable-level controls,” one researcher noted.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant’s AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors…
Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of “disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features” to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT. “The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory
Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker Amaranth-Dragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,
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A hacktivist group claims a 2.3-terabyte data breach exposes the information of 36 million Mexicans, but no sensitive accounts are at risk, says government.
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Attackers could even have used one vulnerable Lookout user to gain access to other GCP tenants’ environments.
Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is incomplete. I have seen IR teams recover from sophisticated intrusions with limited telemetry. I have also seen teams lose control of investigations they should…