U.S. legislation to criminalize non-consensual intimate images, videos and deepfakes has passed Congress with the overwhelming support of both parties, and even social media companies have voiced support for the bill. The Take It Down Act – short for the bill’s full title, “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by show more ...
A LevelBlue report looks at what goes into the security postures of a cyber-resilient organization, and found that AI is still a blind spot.
Microsoft has set May 5 as the deadline for bulk email compliance. In this Tech Tip, we show how organizations can still make the deadline.
The China-linked cyber-operations group, better known as Lotus Panda, uses its own custom malware to focus on government agencies and private companies in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Cisco joins the agentic AI wave with the introduction of advanced LLMs to autonomously verify and investigate attacks.
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation.
Russia's cyberattacks on Ukraine have increased dramatically, targeting the country's government and defense infrastructure.
Real IDs have been in the works since 2005. Are their security standards still rigorous enough in 2025?
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How one unreasonable client got lucky during a cyber incident, despite their unreasonable response to the threat.
Two of the known victims are an Italian journalist and the right-wing Dutch author and pundit Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
The U.K. Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, which has statutory powers to hold agencies to account, says the government has “comprehensively dismantled” safeguards around its independence.
Poland's state registry — which includes the PESEL system for personal identification — is the latest in Eastern Europe to face a disruption. Local media reports suggested it was a DDoS incident.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said it will not investigate the British Library over a 2023 ransomware attack. The institution will not face potential monetary penalties or a reprimand.
Ukrainian national Artem Stryzhak is accused of using Nefilim ransomware to target large companies in the U.S. and elsewhere.
One cybersecurity expert even said he recently found evidence that a U.S. political campaign in Oregon hired a North Korean IT worker.
The settlement falls under the False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law that allows for civil damages against government contractors who violate the terms of their agreement.
Ascension Health revealed another security incident this week, warning more than 100,000 people in multiple states that their information was likely accessed by hackers late last year.
Enterprise data backup platform Commvault has revealed that an unknown nation-state threat actor breached its Microsoft Azure environment by exploiting CVE-2025-3928 but emphasized there is no evidence of unauthorized data access. "This activity has affected a small number of customers we have in common with Microsoft, and we are working with those customers to provide assistance," the company
SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) - Improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to
Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are facing a fundamentally new challenge — traditional cybersecurity tools are failing to detect advanced adversaries who have become experts at evading endpoint-based defenses and signature-based detection systems. The reality of these “invisible intruders” is driving a significant need for a multi-layered approach to detecting threats,
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a
For over a decade, application security teams have faced a brutal irony: the more advanced the detection tools became, the less useful their results proved to be. As alerts from static analysis tools, scanners, and CVE databases surged, the promise of better security grew more distant. In its place, a new reality took hold—one defined by alert fatigue and overwhelmed teams. According to OX
Russian companies have been targeted as part of a large-scale phishing campaign that's designed to deliver a known malware called DarkWatchman. Targets of the attacks include entities in the media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecom, transport, and biotechnology sectors, Russian cybersecurity company F6 said. The activity is assessed to be the work of a
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a security plugin. The plugin, which goes by the name "WP-antymalwary-bot.php," comes with a variety of features to maintain access, hide itself from the admin dashboard, and execute remote code. "Pinging functionality that can report back to a command-and-control (C&C) server
He's not a pop star, but Jeffrey Bowie is alleged to have toured staff areas of a hospital in Oklahoma, hunting for computers he could install spyware on. We dive into the bizarre case of the man accused of hacking medical networks and then sharing how he did it on LinkedIn. Plus! Move over Nigerian princes — show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) – Improper neutralization show more ...
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Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: The UK’s data protection regulator has said it will not press on with an investigation into the British Library’s catastrophic ransomware breach. The October 2023 attack by a Rhysida ransomware affiliate led to the theft of 600GB of internal data, including show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: The FBI has released details of 42,000 phishing domains, which it said could help network defenders to build cyber resilience and investigate historic breaches. The domains are linked to prolific phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation LabHost. According to show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: Growing concerns about the cyber risks posed by developments in quantum computing will be major focus at the upcoming Infosecurity Europe 2025 conference. The quantum discussion will begin with an opening keynote by world renowned physicist Brian Cox on Tuesday show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: RansomHub has refined its extortion model and expanded affiliate recruitment efforts amid increasing volatility in the ransomware ecosystem. Following law enforcement actions and multiple exit scams affecting major Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) players, the show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: A new initiative to expand cloud and AI infrastructure across Europe has been announced by Microsoft. Earlier today, the company revealed plans to increase its European data center capacity by 40% in the next two years. With operations expanding in 16 countries, show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: Just a few days after Marks & Spencer reported suffering from a major cyber-attack, another UK-based major retailer confirmed an intrusion into its IT systems. After reports in UK media of an April 30 internal letter informing the retailer’s staff that the show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: The head of Homeland Security has accused Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of losing sight of its original mission and behaving like “the ministry of truth.” Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security at the US Department of Homeland show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: A new bill requiring the US Commerce Department to assess the national security risks associated with routers and modems controlled by adversarial nations is one step closer to becoming law after passing the House of Representatives. The House passed the Removing show more ...
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier vaadu • May 1, 2025 1:39 PM Modern surveillance state because of DOGE? Enough with the Elon Derangement Syndrome. The abuse of government data for surveillance started decades ago. Snowden showed some of that. DOGE’s mission is to root out fraud, waste and show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a security plugin. The plugin, which goes by the name “WP-antymalwary-bot.php,” comes with a variety of features to maintain access, hide itself show more ...
