Nations continue to sign the Code of Practice for States in an effort to curb commercial spyware, yet implementation and enforcement concerns have yet to be figured out.

The threat actor, also known as Goffee, has been active since at least 2022 and has changed its tactics and techniques over the years while targeting Russian organizations.

Fortinet has revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain read-only access to vulnerable FortiGate devices even after the initial access vector used to breach the devices was patched. The attackers are believed to have leveraged known and now-patched security flaws, including, but not limited to, CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2023-27997, and CVE-2024-21762. “A threat actor…

The most damaging attacks continue to be ransomware, but financial fraud claims are more numerous — and both are driven by increasing third-party breaches.

With $4.4 billion in worldwide data breach fines in 2024, the cost of not knowing who’s walking into your systems is devastating.

Developing strong incident response plans remains an area that requires significant improvement. Here are some shortcomings and how to address them.

The threat actor known as Paper Werewolf has been observed exclusively targeting Russian entities with a new implant called PowerModul. The activity, which took place between July and December 2024, singled out organizations in the mass media, telecommunications, construction, government entities, and energy sectors, Kaspersky said in a new report published Thursday. Paper Werewolf, also…

Researchers characterize the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot as less secure than ChatGPT and even DeepSeek.

What are IABs? Initial Access Brokers (IABs) specialize in gaining unauthorized entry into computer systems and networks, then selling that access to other cybercriminals. This division of labor allows IABs to concentrate on their core expertise: exploiting vulnerabilities through methods like social engineering and brute-force attacks.  By selling access, they significantly mitigate the

Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it’s observing brute-force login attempts against PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, days after threat actors warned of a surge in suspicious login scanning activity targeting its appliances. “Our teams are observing evidence of activity consistent with password-related attacks, such as brute-force login attempts, which does not indicate exploitation of a