Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime The threat actors behind a large-scale, ongoing smishing campaign have been attributed to more than 194,000 malicious domains since January 1, 2024, targeting a broad range of services…
Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Microsoft on Thursday released out-of-band security updates to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability with a proof-of-concept (Poc) exploit publicly available and has come under…
Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Pakistan-nexus threat actor has been observed targeting Indian government entities as part of spear-phishing attacks designed to deliver a Golang-based malware known as DeskRAT. The activity, observed…
Oct 24, 2025The Hacker NewsCyber Resilience / Data Protection Does your organization suffer from a cybersecurity perception gap? Findings from the Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment suggest the answer is probably “yes” — and many leaders…
Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Hacking News A malicious network of YouTube accounts has been observed publishing and promoting videos that lead to malware downloads, essentially abusing the popularity and trust associated with the video…
Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a self-propagating worm that spreads via Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX Registry and the Microsoft Extension Marketplace, underscoring how developers…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a new wave of attacks targeting European companies active in the defense industry as part of…
Oct 23, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection AI is everywhere—and your company wants in. Faster products, smarter systems, fewer bottlenecks. But if you’re in security, that excitement often comes with a sinking feeling.…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Criminals don’t need to be clever all the time; they just follow the easiest path in: trick users, exploit stale components, or abuse trusted systems like OAuth and…
Oct 23, 2025The Hacker NewsDevOps / Data Protection As machine identities explode across cloud environments, enterprises report dramatic productivity gains from eliminating static credentials. And only legacy systems remain the weak link. For decades, organizations…