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What's the Difference Between CSPM & SSPM?
Cloud Security Posture Management CSPM and SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM are frequently confused. The similarity of the acronyms notwithstanding, both security solutions focus on securing data in the cloud. In a world where the terms cloud and SaaS are used interchangeably, this confusion...
What's the Difference Between CSPM & SSPM?
Cloud Security Posture Management CSPM and SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM are frequently confused. The similarity of the acronyms notwithstanding, both security solutions focus on securing data in the cloud. In a world where the terms cloud and SaaS are used interchangeably, this confusion...
Google Uncovers APT41's Use of Open Source GC2 Tool to Target Media and Job Sites
A Chinese nation-state group targeted an unnamed Taiwanese media organization to deliver an open source red teaming tool known as Google Command and Control GC2 amid broader abuse of Google's infrastructure for malicious ends. The tech giant's Threat Analysis Group TAG attributed the campaign to ...
Google Uncovers APT41's Use of Open Source GC2 Tool to Target Media and Job Sites
A Chinese nation-state group targeted an unnamed Taiwanese media organization to deliver an open source red teaming tool known as Google Command and Control GC2 amid broader abuse of Google's infrastructure for malicious ends. The tech giant's Threat Analysis Group TAG attributed the campaign to ...
Tour of the Underground: Master the Art of Dark Web Intelligence Gathering
The Deep, Dark Web – The Underground – is a haven for cybercriminals, teeming with tools and resources to launch attacks for financial gain, political motives, and other causes. But did you know that the underground also offers a goldmine of threat intelligence and information that can be harness...
Tour of the Underground: Master the Art of Dark Web Intelligence Gathering
The Deep, Dark Web – The Underground – is a haven for cybercriminals, teeming with tools and resources to launch attacks for financial gain, political motives, and other causes. But did you know that the underground also offers a goldmine of threat intelligence and information that can be harness...
Vice Society Ransomware Using Stealthy PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration
Threat actors associated with the Vice Society ransomware gang have been observed using a bespoke PowerShell-based tool to fly under the radar and automate the process of exfiltrating data from compromised networks. "Threat actors TAs using built-in data exfiltration methods like living off the...
Vice Society Ransomware Using Stealthy PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration
Threat actors associated with the Vice Society ransomware gang have been observed using a bespoke PowerShell-based tool to fly under the radar and automate the process of exfiltrating data from compromised networks. "Threat actors TAs using built-in data exfiltration methods like living off the...
New Zaraza Bot Credential-Stealer Sold on Telegram Targeting 38 Web Browsers
A novel credential-stealing malware called Zaraza bot is being offered for sale on Telegram while also using the popular messaging service as a command-and-control C2. "Zaraza bot targets a large number of web browsers and is being actively distributed on a Russian Telegram hacker channel popular...
New Zaraza Bot Credential-Stealer Sold on Telegram Targeting 38 Web Browsers
A novel credential-stealing malware called Zaraza bot is being offered for sale on Telegram while also using the popular messaging service as a command-and-control C2. "Zaraza bot targets a large number of web browsers and is being actively distributed on a Russian Telegram hacker channel popular...
Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google on Friday released out-of-band updates to resolve an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser, making it the first such bug to be addressed since the start of the year. Tracked as CVE-2023-2033, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a type confusion issue ...
Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google on Friday released out-of-band updates to resolve an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser, making it the first such bug to be addressed since the start of the year. Tracked as CVE-2023-2033 , the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a type confusion issue...
Russia-Linked Hackers Launches Espionage Attacks on Foreign Diplomatic Entities
The Russia-linked APT29 aka Cozy Bear threat actor has been attributed to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting foreign ministries and diplomatic entities located in NATO member states, the European Union, and Africa. According to Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service and the CERT...
Russia-Linked Hackers Launches Espionage Attacks on Foreign Diplomatic Entities
The Russia-linked APT29 aka Cozy Bear threat actor has been attributed to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting foreign ministries and diplomatic entities located in NATO member states, the European Union, and Africa. According to Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service and the CERT...
Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen
Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What's more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunc...
Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen
Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What's more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunc...
Severe Android and Novi Survey Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The two flaws are listed below - CVE-2023-20963 CVSS score: 7.8 - Android Framework Privilege Escalation...
Severe Android and Novi Survey Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The two flaws are listed below - CVE-2023-20963 CVSS score: 7.8 - Android Framework Privilege Escalation...
Webinar: Tips from MSSPs to MSSPs – Building a Profitable vCISO Practice
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing digital landscape, businesses of all sizes face a myriad of cybersecurity threats. Putting in place the right people, technological tools and services, MSSPs are in a great position to ensure their customers' cyber resilience. The growing need of SMEs and...
Webinar: Tips from MSSPs to MSSPs – Building a Profitable vCISO Practice
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing digital landscape, businesses of all sizes face a myriad of cybersecurity threats. Putting in place the right people, technological tools and services, MSSPs are in a great position to ensure their customers' cyber resilience. The growing need of SMEs and...
Google Launches New Cybersecurity Initiatives to Strengthen Vulnerability Management
Google on Thursday outlined a set of initiatives aimed at improving the vulnerability management ecosystem and establishing greater transparency measures around exploitation. "While the notoriety of zero-day vulnerabilities typically makes headlines, risks remain even after they're known and fixe...
Google Launches New Cybersecurity Initiatives to Strengthen Vulnerability Management
Google on Thursday outlined a set of initiatives aimed at improving the vulnerability management ecosystem and establishing greater transparency measures around exploitation. "While the notoriety of zero-day vulnerabilities typically makes headlines, risks remain even after they're known and fixe...
RTM Locker: Emerging Cybercrime Group Targeting Businesses with Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the tactics of a "rising" cybercriminal gang called "Read The Manual" RTM Locker that functions as a private ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider and carries out opportunistic attacks to generate illicit profit. "The 'Read The Manual' Locker gang uses...
RTM Locker: Emerging Cybercrime Group Targeting Businesses with Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the tactics of a "rising" cybercriminal gang called "Read The Manual" RTM Locker that functions as a private ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider and carries out opportunistic attacks to generate illicit profit. "The 'Read The Manual' Locker gang uses...
WhatsApp Introduces New Device Verification Feature to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced a new account verification feature that ensures that malware running on a user's mobile device doesn't impact their account. "Mobile device malware is one of the biggest threats to people's privacy and security today because it can take...
WhatsApp Introduces New Device Verification Feature to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced a new account verification feature that ensures that malware running on a user's mobile device doesn't impact their account. "Mobile device malware is one of the biggest threats to people's privacy and security today because it can take...
New Python-Based "Legion" Hacking Tool Emerges on Telegram
An emerging Python-based credential harvester and a hacking tool named Legion is being marketed via Telegram as a way for threat actors to break into various online services for further exploitation. Legion, according to Cado Labs, includes modules to enumerate vulnerable SMTP servers, conduct...
New Python-Based "Legion" Hacking Tool Emerges on Telegram
An emerging Python-based credential harvester and a hacking tool named Legion is being marketed via Telegram as a way for threat actors to break into various online services for further exploitation. Legion, according to Cado Labs, includes modules to enumerate vulnerable SMTP servers, conduct...
Why Shadow APIs are More Dangerous than You Think
Shadow APIs are a growing risk for organizations of all sizes as they can mask malicious behavior and induce substantial data loss. For those that aren't familiar with the term, shadow APIs are a type of application programming interface API that isn't officially documented or supported. Contrary...
Pakistan-based Transparent Tribe Hackers Targeting Indian Educational Institutions
The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a set of weaponized Microsoft Office documents in intrusions directed against the Indian education sector to deploy a continuously maintained piece of malware called Crimson RAT. While the suspected Pakistan-based threat group is known to targ...
Pakistan-based Transparent Tribe Hackers Targeting Indian Educational Institutions
The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a set of weaponized Microsoft Office documents in intrusions directed against the Indian education sector to deploy a continuously maintained piece of malware called Crimson RAT. While the suspected Pakistan-based threat group is known to targ...
Why Shadow APIs are More Dangerous than You Think
Shadow APIs are a growing risk for organizations of all sizes as they can mask malicious behavior and induce substantial data loss. For those that aren't familiar with the term, shadow APIs are a type of application programming interface API that isn't officially documented or supported. Contrary...
Lazarus Hacker Group Evolves Tactics, Tools, and Targets in DeathNote Campaign
The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed shifting its focus and rapidly evolving its tools and tactics as part of a long-running campaign called DeathNote. While the nation-state adversary is known for persistently singling out the cryptocurrency sector, recent...
Lazarus Hacker Group Evolves Tactics, Tools, and Targets in DeathNote Campaign
The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed shifting its focus and rapidly evolving its tools and tactics as part of a long-running campaign called DeathNote. While the nation-state adversary is known for persistently singling out the cryptocurrency sector, recent...
ChatGPT Security: OpenAI's Bug Bounty Program Offers Up to $20,000 Prizes
OpenAI, the company behind the massively popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, has launched a bug bounty program in an attempt to ensure its systems are "safe and secure." To that end, it has partnered with the crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd for independent researchers to report vulnerabilities...
ChatGPT Security: OpenAI's Bug Bounty Program Offers Up to $20,000 Prizes
OpenAI, the company behind the massively popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, has launched a bug bounty program in an attempt to ensure its systems are "safe and secure." To that end, it has partnered with the crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd for independent researchers to report vulnerabilities...
Israel-based Spyware Firm QuaDream Targets High-Risk iPhones with Zero-Click Exploit
Threat actors using hacking tools from an Israeli surveillanceware vendor named QuaDream targeted at least five members of civil society in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. According to findings from a group of researchers from the Citizen Lab, the spyware...
Israel-based Spyware Firm QuaDream Targets High-Risk iPhones with Zero-Click Exploit
Threat actors using hacking tools from an Israeli surveillanceware vendor named QuaDream targeted at least five members of civil society in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. According to findings from a group of researchers from the Citizen Lab, the spyware...
The Service Accounts Challenge: Can't See or Secure Them Until It's Too Late
Here's a hard question to answer: 'How many service accounts do you have in your environment?'. A harder one is: 'Do you know what these accounts are doing?'. And the hardest is probably: 'If any of your service account was compromised and used to access resources would you be able to detect and...
The Service Accounts Challenge: Can't See or Secure Them Until It's Too Late
Here's a hard question to answer: 'How many service accounts do you have in your environment?'. A harder one is: 'Do you know what these accounts are doing?'. And the hardest is probably: 'If any of your service account was compromised and used to access resources would you be able to detect and...
Urgent: Microsoft Issues Patches for 97 Flaws, Including Active Ransomware Exploit
It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of 97 flaws impacting its software, one of which has been actively exploited in ransomware attacks in the wild. Seven of the 97 bugs are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in...
Urgent: Microsoft Issues Patches for 97 Flaws, Including Active Ransomware Exploit
It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of 97 flaws impacting its software, one of which has been actively exploited in ransomware attacks in the wild. Seven of the 97 bugs are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in...
North Korean Hackers Uncovered as Mastermind in 3CX Supply Chain Attack
Enterprise communications service provider 3CX confirmed that the supply chain attack targeting its desktop application for Windows and macOS was the handiwork of a threat actor with North Korean nexus. The findings are the result of an interim assessment conducted by Google-owned Mandiant, whose...
North Korean Hackers Uncovered as Mastermind in 3CX Supply Chain Attack
Enterprise communications service provider 3CX confirmed that the supply chain attack targeting its desktop application for Windows and macOS was the handiwork of a threat actor with North Korean nexus. The findings are the result of an interim assessment conducted by Google-owned Mandiant, whose...
Newly Discovered "By-Design" Flaw in Microsoft Azure Could Expose Storage Accounts to Hackers
A "by-design flaw" uncovered in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, move laterally in the environment, and even execute remote code. "It is possible to abuse and leverage Microsoft Storage Accounts by manipulating Azure Functions to steal...
Newly Discovered "By-Design" Flaw in Microsoft Azure Could Expose Storage Accounts to Hackers
A "by-design flaw" uncovered in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, move laterally in the environment, and even execute remote code. "It is possible to abuse and leverage Microsoft Storage Accounts by manipulating Azure Functions to steal...
Cybercriminals Turn to Android Loaders on Dark Web to Evade Google Play Security
Malicious loader programs capable of trojanizing Android applications are being traded on the criminal underground for up to $20,000 as a way to evade Google Play Store defenses. "The most popular application categories to hide malware and unwanted software include cryptocurrency trackers,...
Cybercriminals Turn to Android Loaders on Dark Web to Evade Google Play Security
Malicious loader programs capable of trojanizing Android applications are being traded on the criminal underground for up to $20,000 as a way to evade Google Play Store defenses. "The most popular application categories to hide malware and unwanted software include cryptocurrency trackers,...
[eBook] A Step-by-Step Guide to Cyber Risk Assessment
In today's perilous cyber risk landscape, CISOs and CIOs must defend their organizations against relentless cyber threats, including ransomware, phishing, attacks on infrastructure, supply chain breaches, malicious insiders, and much more. Yet at the same time, security leaders are also under...
[eBook] A Step-by-Step Guide to Cyber Risk Assessment
In today's perilous cyber risk landscape, CISOs and CIOs must defend their organizations against relentless cyber threats, including ransomware, phishing, attacks on infrastructure, supply chain breaches, malicious insiders, and much more. Yet at the same time, security leaders are also under...