Harrods, the iconic British luxury department store, has confirmed that it was recently targeted in a cybersecurity incident, becoming the third major UK retailer in just a few days to report a cyber incident. The Harrods cyberattack follows similar breaches at Marks & Spencer and the Co-op. The cyberattack on show more ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, adding two vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-38475 and CVE-2023-44221, that are currently being actively exploited. These vulnerabilities present substantial cybersecurity risks to organizations, show more ...
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including show more ...
A series of cyberattacks have struck multiple major British retailers in recent weeks, and a ransomware gang has reportedly claimed responsibility.
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A panelist of SANS Institute leaders detailed current threats and provided actionable steps for enterprises to consider.
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Starting this month, finance companies operating in New York must implement a variety of protections against unauthorized access to IT systems.
While law enforcement has identified and arrested several alleged members, the notorious threat group continues to wreak havoc.
This year's top cyber challenges include cloud authorization sprawl, ICS cyberattacks and ransomware, a lack of cloud logging, and regulatory constraints keeping defenders from fully utilizing AI's capabilities.
Alexei Bulazel, the senior director for cyber on the National Security Council, said it was important to be able "to respond in kind" if the U.S. is targeted with cyberattacks.
It's been almost a year since the Qilin cybercrime group breached sensitive data from U.K. pathology services company Synnovis, and its patient information page is still short on details about what was exposed and how many people were affected.
London retailer Harrods said it had “recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems” but its security team "immediately took proactive steps to keep systems safe.”
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Chinese-owned TikTok €530 million ($600 million) for violating GDPR rules about data transfers outside of Europe.
The uptick began in the fourth quarter of 2024 and continued into 2025, with the increases largely attributed to Clop’s exploitation of a popular file sharing service.
The Treasury Department issued the proposed rulemaking Thursday, stating that Huione Group has helped launder funds from North Korean state-backed cybercrime operations and investment scams originating in Southeast Asia.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced charges against Rami Khaled Ahmed for allegedly helping to develop and deploy Black Kingdom, which infected “approximately 1,500 computer systems."
The malware loader known as MintsLoader has been used to deliver a PowerShell-based remote access trojan called GhostWeaver. "MintsLoader operates through a multi-stage infection chain involving obfuscated JavaScript and PowerShell scripts," Recorded Future's Insikt Group said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The malware employs sandbox and virtual machine evasion techniques, a domain
A year after Microsoft announced passkeys support for consumer accounts, the tech giant has announced a big change that pushes individuals signing up for new accounts to use the phishing-resistant authentication method by default. "Brand new Microsoft accounts will now be 'passwordless by default,'" show more ...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Tuesday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million ($601 million) for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users' data to China. "TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA [European Economic Area] User Data to China and its transparency requirements," the DPC said in a statement. "
Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community - all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition. A recent standout is a workflow that automates monitoring for security advisories from CISA and other vendors, enriches advisories with CrowdStrike
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Source: socprime.com – Author: Daryna Olyniychuk Zero-day vulnerabilities are no longer rare anomalies—they’re now a core weapon in the modern attacker’s arsenal, with exploitation activity escalating year over year. According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), in 2024 alone, 75 zero-day show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards Loading legitimate system drivers from illegitimate or suspicious directories is a known tactic for persistence, evasion, or execution by adversaries. One high-value target in this category is clfs.sys — a legitimate Windows driver tied to the Common Log File show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) like NimScan are increasingly used by adversaries during the reconnaissance phase to map open ports or identify network assets. Detecting their execution early is key—but doing so with hash-based or path-based rules in show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards When malware like the Kalambur backdoor leverages native tools like curl.exe to route traffic through TOR, defenders need visibility at the process and command-line level. But in tools like Microsoft Sentinel, queries for such activity—written in Kusto Query show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards One of the more advanced tactics in attacker playbooks is tampering with event log configurations to erase traces of compromise. Detecting such attempts via Windows Registry modifications is complex—often involving detailed Splunk queries that filter by registry show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards CrushFTP is a popular file transfer application, but in the wrong hands, it can become a stealthy foothold for lateral movement. A process like crushftpservice.exe spawning common Windows binaries such as cmd.exe , powershell.exe , or wscript.exe often signals that show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards File transfer services like CrushFTP are critical for business operations—but they can also be leveraged as stealthy launchpads for post-exploitation activity. When a server process such as crushftpservice.exe spawns command-line interpreters like powershell.exe , show more ...
Source: socprime.com – Author: Steven Edwards In modern cyberattacks, attackers rely not only on payloads but also on clever evasion techniques. One of the most subtle methods? Whitespace padding in command-line arguments—a tactic often used to obscure malicious behavior and throw off static detection. A show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: More than a third (36%) of people have had at least one online account compromised due to weak or stolen passwords in the past year, according to new research by the FIDO Alliance. The survey by the open industry association also found a growing awareness and show more ...
Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com – Author: UK retailers face mounting cyber threats, as Harrods is the latest to confirm a cyber incident, following earlier cyber-attacks involving the Co-operative Group (Co-op) and Marks and Spencer (M&S). Luxury retailer Harrods confirmed on May 1 that it show more ...
Senior program manager Mariel Cisneros overcame doubt, imposter syndrome, and Calculus II to build the future of aerospace. Source Views: 0 La entrada How Mariel Cisneros Turned Her Childhood Dreams Into an Engineering Career se publicó primero en CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP.
Diverse Podcast: Engineering as a Pathway to Community Leadership with Debra Coleman In this special SWE Diverse Episode for Black History Month, Louvere-Walker Hannon, co-leader of the African American Affinity Group for the Society of Women Engineers sits down with Debra Coleman, co-lead of the SWE African-American show more ...
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Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Friday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million ($601 million) for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users’ data to China. “TikTok infringed the show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community – all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition. A recent standout is show more ...
