RealDefense Opens $10M Fund to Help OEMs Monetize Installs With SmartScan Cybersecurity SDK

Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT. “The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network (CDN) myqcloud and the Youdao Cloud Notes service as part of their attack infrastructure,” Kaspersky ICS CERT said…

Detecting leaked credentials is only half the battle. The real challenge—and often the neglected half of the equation—is what happens after detection. New research from GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2025 report reveals a disturbing trend: the vast majority of exposed company secrets discovered in public repositories remain valid for years after detection, creating an…

The new equation, introduced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), aims to offer a mathematical likelihood index that could be a game-changer for SecOps teams and vulnerability patch prioritization.

While several cybercrime groups have embraced “EDR killers,” researchers say the deep knowledge and technical skills demonstrated by Crypto24 signify a dangerous escalation.

Attackers are using patched bugs to potentially gain unfettered access to an organization’s Windows environment under certain conditions.

Google on Wednesday released updates to address four security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4664 (CVSS score: 4.3), has been characterized as a case of insufficient policy enforcement in a component called Loader. “Insufficient policy enforcement…