FakeUpdates, Remcos, AgentTesla Top Malware Charts in Stealth Attack Surge

Check Point's April 2025 malware report reveals increasingly sophisticated and hidden attacks using familiar malware like FakeUpdates, Remcos,…...

Flying Under the Radar - Security Evasion Techniques

Dive into the evolution of phishing and malware evasion techniques and understand how attackers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to bypass security measures. The Evolution of Phishing Attacks "I really like the saying that 'This is out of scope' said no hacker ever. Whether it's trick...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 - Nov 10)

⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car's tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024, this isn't fiction; it's the new cyber reality...

5 ways to secure identity and access for 2024

The security landscape is changing fast. In 2023, we saw a record-high 30 billion attempted password attacks per month, a 35% increase in demand for cybersecurity experts, and a 23% annual rise in cases processed by the Microsoft Security Response Center and Security Operations Center teams.1 Thi...

How to Manage Your Security Risks

Deciphering the Criticality of Safeguarding Against Security Threats As digital natives, we are well aware that the urgency and importance of ensuring digital safety can't be minimized. The escalating vector of sophisticated digital attacks has brandished a double-edged sword, threatening both...

Biggest Data Security Threats for Businesses: Strategies to Strengthen Your Defense

By Waqas With cybercriminals continuously evolving their strategies to target sensitive data with sophisticated attacks, data security has become a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Biggest Data Security Threats for Businesses: Strategies to Strengthen Your Defense...

Strengthening identity protection in the face of highly sophisticated attacks

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Strengthening identity protection in the face of highly sophisticated attacks

The post Strengthening identity protection in the face of highly sophisticated attacks appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog...

Iranian Hackers Launch Sophisticated Attacks Targeting Israel with PowerLess Backdoor

An Iranian nation-state threat actor has been linked to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israel that's designed to deploy an updated version of a Windows backdoor called PowerLess. Cybersecurity firm Check Point is tracking the activity cluster under its mythical creature handle Educated...

DEV-0139 launches targeted attacks against the cryptocurrency industry

Over the past several years, the cryptocurrency market has considerably expanded, gaining the interest of investors and threat actors. Cryptocurrency itself has been used by cybercriminals for their operations, notably for ransom payment in ransomware attacks, but we have also observed threat...

New Evil PLC Attack Weaponizes PLCs to Breach OT and Enterprise Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have elaborated a novel attack technique that weaponizes programmable logic controllers PLCs to gain an initial foothold in engineering workstations and subsequently invade the operational technology OT networks. Dubbed "Evil PLC" attack by industrial security firm...

Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Extortionists target industries with most to lose from an outage Cybercriminals continue to target organizations threatening Denial of Service DDoS attacks in exchange for a ransom payment, traditionally demanded in bitcoin BTC. And it seems that no matter how many times these ransom threat cycle...

Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by a Chinese Hacking Group

The move delivers a blow to the hackers behind sophisticated attacks on government agencies, think tanks, and other organizations...

Spear phishing attacks underline how much dangerous phishing has gotten

By Waqas Today’s phishing attacks are more sophisticated as attackers have moved on in some cases from going after individuals to targeting businesses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Spear phishing attacks underline how much dangerous phishing has gotten...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

Bad bots continue to evolve. Your mitigation strategy should, too.

With the global pandemic continuing to catalyze digitalization, we’ve seen two years worth of digital transformation take place in a mere two months, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Clearly, bad actors are capitalizing on the opportunities that digital transformation creates, as more da...

Royal Mail phish deploys evasion tricks to avoid analysis

Royal Mail phish scams are still in circulation, slowly upgrading their capabilities with evasion tools deployed in far more sophisticated malware attacks. Often, the quality of sites we see varies greatly. Many fake Royal Mail pages are cookie-cutter efforts existing on borrowed time. The...

MariaDB: Git Config

Hey Team, I am a Security Researcher and I have found that one of your domain is leaking the git file which may led to source code of git repository exposing can led to sophisticated attacks so kindly remove it. Vuln URL - http://foundation01.mariadb.org/.git/config BEST, ABHINAV SHARMA -...

5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls

As the pandemic continues to fuel the shift to remote work, numerous manufacturers have capitalized on this movement to create a multitude of handy internet of things IoT devices. While these devices may make our home and work lives more convenient, they greatly expand the attack surface for...

How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on March 9? Register here! The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and...