Russia Pivots, Cracks Down on Low-Level Hackers
Thanks to improving cybersecurity and law enforcement action from the West, Russia’s government is reevaluating which cybercriminals it wants to protect from the law.
Thanks to improving cybersecurity and law enforcement action from the West, Russia’s government is reevaluating which cybercriminals it wants to protect from the law.
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The Iranian threat group is using a compromised mailbox accessed through NordVPN to send phishing emails that prompt recipients to enable macros.
Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025. Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as government agencies in South America, a university in the U.S.,…
From Detection to Resolution: Why the Gap Persists A critical vulnerability is identified in an exposed cloud asset. Within hours, five different tools alert you about it: your vulnerability scanner, XDR, CSPM, SIEM, and CMDB each surface the issue in their own way, with different severity levels, metadata, and context. What’s missing is a system…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the NuGet package manager with malicious typosquats of Nethereum, a popular Ethereum .NET integration platform, to steal victims’ cryptocurrency wallet keys. The package, Netherеum.All, has been found to harbor functionality to decode a command-and-control (C2) endpoint and exfiltrate mnemonic phrases, private keys, and
People habitually ignore cybersecurity on their phones. Instead of compensating for that, organizations are falling into the very same trap, even though available security options could cut smishing success and breaches in half.
The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more important security factor, and passphrases are…
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several