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Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels
A new ClickFix variant dubbed TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts on compromised websites to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell comman...
Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages
Threat actors are abusing npm and its mirrors to host malicious HTML pages that impersonate Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to redirect visitors to attacker-controlled webs...
Microsoft links hotel Wi-Fi hacks to Russian Midnight Blizzard hackers
Microsoft has attributed an ongoing campaign targeting travelers on hotel and other hospitality Wi-Fi networks to a subgroup of the Russian state-sponsored hack...
New AI attack can reconstruct typed text from keyboard sounds
Researchers have developed a new acoustic side-channel attack that can reconstruct text typed on a laptop by analyzing nothing more than the sound of keystrokes...
Cloudflare expands behavioral tracking to fight AI bots, says user privacy protected
Cloudflare has introduced Precursor, a new bot detection system that continuously monitors visitor behavior throughout an entire browsing session instead of rel...
Mozilla proposes privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHAs
Mozilla has unveiled a new proposal called PACT (Private Access Control Tokens), a framework designed to help websites distinguish legitimate users from abusive...
5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees
Many employees already use shadow AI tools at work without security review. Adaptive Security breaks down how teams can build practical AI governance without ad...
'FrostyNeighbor' APT Carefully Targets Govt Orgs in Poland, Ukraine
Attackers uniquely fingerprint victims before delivering spear-phishing payloads aimed at espionage, in the latest campaign from the Belarussian nation-state th...
China's 'FamousSparrow' APT Nests in South Caucasus Energy Firm
The cyberthreat group targets an Azerbaijani oil and gas firm with repeated attacks, as the China-linked actors extend targeting beyond hospitality, telecom, an...
Name That Toon: Mark of (Security) Progress
Feeling creative? Have something to say about the last 20 years of cybersecurity? Our editors will award the best cybersecurity-related caption with a $20 gift ...
OilRig Hides C2 Configuration in Google Drive Image Using LSB Steganography
A well-known Iranian state-sponsored hacking group called OilRig, also tracked as APT34 and Helix Kitten, has been found hiding its command-and-control (C2) ser...
Deepfake Voice Attacks are Outpacing Defenses: What Security Leaders Should Know
Three seconds of audio is all it takes to clone a voice for fraud. Adaptive Security shows how deepfake calls trick employees into sending real money—and why mo...
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Hackers Use Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Trigger Costly International SMS Fraud
Most internet users are familiar with CAPTCHA tests, simple challenges like selecting traffic lights or typing distorted letters to confirm they are human. But ...
Chinese APT Abuses Multiple Cloud Tools to Spy on Mongolia
The threat actor gave itself plenty of options to support command and control, tapping Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Discord, and file.io for online espionage....
Tropic Trooper APT Takes Aim at Home Routers, Japanese Targets
The Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat is known for moving fast and trying odd attack vectors; now it's branching out in tools, victimology, and TTPs....
New GopherWhisper APT group abuses Outlook, Slack, Discord for comms
A previously undocumented state-backed threat actor named GopherWhisper is using a Go-based custom toolkit and legitimate services like Microsoft 365 Outlook, S...
Hackers Use Outlook Mailboxes to Hide Linux GoGra Backdoor Communications
A nation-state-linked hacking group has found a clever way to hide its malicious activity inside Microsoft Outlook mailboxes, making its attacks much harder to ...
Chinese APT Targets Indian Banks, Korean Policy Circles
China is spying on India's financial sector, for some reason, and it's not putting much effort into it, judging by some stale TTPs....
KelpDAO suffers $290 million heist tied to Lazarus hackers
State-sponsored North Korean hackers are likely behind the $290 million crypto-heist that impacted the KelpDAO DeFi project on Saturday. [...]...
US nationals behind DPRK IT worker 'laptop farm' sent to prison
Two U.S. nationals have been sent to prison for helping North Korean remote information technology (IT) workers to pose as U.S. residents and get hired by over ...