Credential stuffing attacks had a huge impact in 2024, fueled by a vicious circle of infostealer infections and data breaches. But things could be about to get worse still with Computer-Using Agents, a new kind of AI agent that enables low-cost, low-effort automation of common web tasks — including those frequently performed by attackers. Stolen […]
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Threat hunters are calling attention to a new highly-targeted phishing campaign that singled out “fewer than five” entities in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to deliver a previously undocumented Golang backdoor dubbed Sosano. The malicious activity was specifically directed against aviation and satellite communications organizations, according to Proofpoint, which detected it in late October Go […]
Internet service providers (ISPs) in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splunk Threat Research Team, which said the activity also led to the delivery of various binaries that […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting software from Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Microsoft Windows, and Progress WhatsUp Gold to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-20118 (CVSS score: 6.5) – A command injection […]
Google has released its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025 to address a total of 44 vulnerabilities, including two that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-43093 – A privilege escalation flaw in the Framework component that could result in unauthorized access […]
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Investigators at the ICO are looking into how (or if) TikTok, as well as Reddit and Imgur, are enforcing UK privacy protections for 13- to 17-year-old users. Go to Source Author: Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading
The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) cybercrime group intends to leak the stolen information in just two days, it claims; but oddly, it doesn’t seek a ransom payment from its victim. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
A complex campaign allows cyberattackers to take over Windows systems by a combining a ClickFix-style attack and sophisticated obfuscation that abuses legitimate Microsoft services. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Threat actors are targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to push out phishing campaigns to unsuspecting targets, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity cluster under the name TGR-UNK-0011 (short for a threat group with unknown motivation), which it said overlaps with a group known as […]