Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware Microsoft said it has discovered a new variant of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET as part of limited attacks in the wild. “Its first known variant…
Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection South Korea has formally suspended new downloads of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek in the country until the service makes changes to its mobile apps to…
Feb 17, 2025The Hacker NewsEnterprise Security / Attack Simulation Cyber threats evolve—has your defense strategy kept up? A new free guide available here explains why Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is the smart approach for…
Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Threats / Cybersecurity Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity News Recap. Discover how cyber attackers are using clever tricks like fake codes and sneaky emails to gain access to sensitive data. We…
Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new Golang-based backdoor that uses Telegram as a mechanism for command-and-control (C2) communications. Netskope Threat Labs, which detailed the functions…
Feb 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Technology Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call…
Feb 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / DevOps Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name to gain…
Feb 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Cryptocurrency The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a previously undocumented JavaScript implant named Marstech1 as part of limited targeted attacks against…
Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations. In a recent communication, the FBI pointed out:…
Feb 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Cyber Attack Microsoft is calling attention to an emerging threat cluster it calls Storm-2372 that has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks aimed at a variety…