Just as triathletes know that peak performance requires more than expensive gear, cybersecurity teams are discovering that AI success depends less on the tools they deploy and more on the data that powers them The junk food problem in cybersecurity Imagine a triathlete who spares no expense on equipment—carbon fiber bikes, hydrodynamic wetsuits, precision GPS…

The threat actor linked to the exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft SharePoint Server is using a bespoke command-and-control (C2) framework called AK47 C2 (also spelled ak47c2) in its operations. The framework includes at least two different types of clients, HTTP-based and Domain Name System (DNS)-based, which have been dubbed AK47HTTP and…

Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams’ defense capabilities by seamlessly integrating commercial, open-source, and custom tools used to analyze malware.

Forget gullible old people — Gen Z is the most at-risk age group on the Web. Older folks might want to ignore it, but employers are likely to feel the brunt.

The fall of RansomHub led to a major consolidation of the ransomware ecosystem last quarter, which was a boon for the DragonForce and Qilin gangs.

The ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3.5TB of data, and told the technology distributor to pay up or suffer a data breach.

The Russian nation-state threat actor known as Secret Blizzard has been observed orchestrating a new cyber espionage campaign targeting foreign embassies located in Moscow by means of an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attack at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and delivering a custom malware dubbed ApolloShadow. “ApolloShadow has the capability to install a trusted root certificate…

To reposition cybersecurity as a strategic, business-critical investment, CFOs and CISOs play a critical role in articulating the significant ROI that robust security measures can deliver.

An ongoing AitM campaign by the infamous Moscow-sponsored cyber threat actor has widened its scope, dropping the dangerous ApolloShadow custom backdoor malware thanks to lawful intercept systems.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new phishing campaign that conceals malicious payloads by abusing link wrapping services from Proofpoint and Intermedia to bypass defenses. “Link wrapping is designed by vendors like Proofpoint to protect users by routing all clicked URLs through a scanning service, allowing them to block known malicious destinations at the…