New Report Exposes Vice Society’s Collaboration with Rhysida Ransomware

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Tactical similarities have been unearthed between the double extortion ransomware group known as Rhysida and Vice Society, including in their targeting of education and healthcare sectors. “As Vice Society was

Collide+Power, Downfall, and Inception: New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583), Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), and Inception (CVE-2023-20569), the novel methods follow the disclosure

China-Linked Hackers Strike Worldwide: 17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Campaign

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Hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023. Cybersecurity firm

Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

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Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both

New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks

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Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said

QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers

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The operators associated with the QakBot (aka QBot) malware have set up 15 new command-and-control (C2) servers as of late June 2023. The findings are a continuation of the malware’s

Hackers Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for Covert Communications

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New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access. “Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok,”

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security

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Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it,

New Yashma Ransomware Variant Targets Multiple English-Speaking Countries

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An unknown threat actor is using a variant of the Yashma ransomware to target various entities in English-speaking countries, Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam at least since June 4, 2023. Cisco

LOLBAS in the Wild: 11 Living-Off-The-Land Binaries That Could Be Used for Malicious Purposes

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 11 living-off-the-land binaries-and-scripts (LOLBAS) that could be maliciously abused by threat actors to conduct post-exploitation activities.  “LOLBAS is an attack method that uses