SIM Swap Fraud Is Surging — and That’s a Good Thing
Now it’s time to build systems that attackers can’t reroute with a phone call.
Now it’s time to build systems that attackers can’t reroute with a phone call.
For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords. It’s no surprise
Windows servers are vulnerable to a dangerous LDAP vulnerability that could be used to crash multiple servers at once and should be patched immediately.
A seemingly benign privilege-escalation process in VMware and other software has likely benefited attackers and other malware strains for years, researchers noted.
For the first time in 2025, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly known. The patches resolve a whopping 130 vulnerabilities, along with 10 other non-Microsoft CVEs that affect Visual Studio, AMD, and its Chromium-based Edge browser. Of these 10…
Not only are attacks against macOS users ramping up, but threat actors have proved to be advanced with deepfake technology. Security awareness training may be the best defense.
Cyberattackers are integrating large language models (LLMs) into the malware, running prompts at runtime to evade detection and augment their code on demand.