Published on: 2025-04-20 07:02:08
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances has been under active exploitation since at least January 2025, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. This security flaw (CVE-2021-20035) impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v devices and was patched almost four years ago, in September 2021, when SonicWall said it could only be exploited to take down vulnerable appliances in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. However, the
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Chinese-speaking IronHusky hackers are targeting Russian and Mongolian government organizations using upgraded MysterySnail remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) spotted the updated implant while investigating recent attacks where the attackers deployed the RAT malware using a malicious MMC script camouflaged as a Word document, which downloaded second-stage payloads and gained persistence on compromised systems. One o
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On Wednesday, CISA warned federal agencies to secure their SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances against attacks exploiting a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2021-20035, this security flaw impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v (ESX, KVM, AWS, Azure) devices. Successful exploitation can allow remote threat actors with low privileges to execute arbitrary code in low-complexity attacks. "Improper neutralization of special e
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BlackJack3D/Getty Images 2024 delivered some good news and bad news in the area of cybercrime. Malware-based ransomware attacks dropped for the third year in a row. But instances of infostealer malware grew dramatically. Those findings come from IBM X-Force's "2025 Threat Intelligence Index" released Thursday. First, let's look at the good news. For the year, ransomware accounted for just 28% of malware incidents, the third annual decline in a row. This means a decrease in malware distributed
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than 40% of corporate fraud is now AI-driven, designed to mimic real users, bypass traditional defenses and scale at speeds that overwhelm even the best-equipped SOCs. In 2024, nearly 90% of enterprises were targeted, and half of them lost $10 million or more. Bots emulate human behavior and create entire emulation frameworks, synthetic identities, and behavioral
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Microsoft says the RansomEXX ransomware gang has been exploiting a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System to gain SYSTEM privileges on victims' systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824, was patched during this month's Patch Tuesday and was only exploited in a limited number of attacks. CVE-2025-29824 is due to a use-after-free weakness that lets local attackers with low privileges gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don't require user i
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Over the weekend, a massive wave of credential stuffing attacks hit multiple large Australian super funds, compromising thousands of members’ accounts. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Australia's advocacy body for the superannuation industry, said today that "a number of members were affected" even though the "majority of the attempts were repelled." Reuters has learned from a source familiar with the matter that over 20,000 accounts were breached in this massive w
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“I think ultimately we’re going to live in a world where the majority of cyberattacks are carried out by agents,” says Mark Stockley, a security expert at the cybersecurity company Malwarebytes. “It’s really only a question of how quickly we get there.” While we have a good sense of the kinds of threats AI agents could present to cybersecurity, what’s less clear is how to detect them in the real world. The AI research organization Palisade Research has built a system called LLM Agent Honeypot i
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ZDNET When you think of phishing emails, you probably think of the crude, grammatically flawed, easy-to-spot samples that go straight to your junk folder. I regret to inform you that those weak "spray and pray" campaigns are yesterday's news. The crooks haven't gotten smarter, but their tools have. Also: These phishing attacks are targeting Mac browsers - how to protect yourself With the help of generative AI, online scammers have become dramatically better at crafting and delivering phishin
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WhataWin/Getty Images On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this? While the pro-Palestinian hacking collective known as Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility on Telegram for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against X, we can't be sure they're responsible. Also: Microsoft's new AI agents aim to help security pros combat the l
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A new cybercrime platform named 'Atlantis AIO' provides an automated credential stuffing service against 140 online platforms, including email services, e-commerce sites, banks, and VPNs. Specifically, Atlantis AIO features pre-configured modules for these services to perform brute force attacks, bypass CAPTCHAs, automate account recovery processes, and monetize stolen credentials/accounts. Credential stuffing and automation Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack where threat actors try
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Blizzard has announced that it will make exceptions to its hardcore permadeath policy and allow some characters to return to life. According to a report in Ars Technica, Blizzard made the pronouncement in response to a string of DDoS attacks that seemed specifically targeted to cause the in-game deaths of members of a high-p
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Google has fixed a high-severity Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited to escape the browser's sandbox and deploy malware in espionage attacks targeting Russian organizations. "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2025-2783 exists in the wild," the company said in a security advisory published Tuesday. Tracked as CVE-2025-2783, this vulnerability was discovered by Kaspersky's Boris Larin and Igor Kuznetsov, who described it as an "incorrect handle provided in unspecified circu
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A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed 'MSC EvilTwin' and now tracked as CVE-2025-26633) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices. Attackers can leverage the vulnerability to evade Windows file reputation protections and execute code because the user is not warned be
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World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore mode has set itself apart from the average MMO experience simply by making character death permanent across the entire in-game realm. For years, Blizzard has not allowed any appeals or rollbacks for these Hardcore mode character deaths, even when such deaths came as the direct result of a server disconnection or gameplay bug. Now, Blizzard says it's modifying that policy somewhat in response to a series of "unprecedented distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS)
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A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed 'MSC EvilTwin' and now tracked as CVE-2025-26633) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices. Attackers can leverage the vulnerability to evade Windows file reputation protections and execute code because the user is not warned be
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World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore mode has set itself apart from the average MMO experience simply by making character death permanent across the entire in-game realm. For years, Blizzard has not allowed any appeals or rollbacks for these Hardcore mode character deaths, even when such deaths came as the direct result of a server disconnection or gameplay bug. Now, Blizzard says it's modifying that policy somewhat in response to a series of "unprecedented distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS)
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As the speed, sophistication, and volume of attacks on corporate systems accelerate, CISOs and IT security teams struggle to apply an effective and consistent Linux security policy across all their servers. With Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened, you get Enterprise Linux and can be assured that it is delivered securely, configured correctly, and is proactively protecting your apps and services from malicious threats.
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CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their networks against attacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in NAKIVO's Backup & Replication software. Tracked as CVE-2024-48248, this absolute path traversal flaw can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on vulnerable devices. The US-based backup and ransomware recovery software vendor silently patched the security flaw with the release of Backup & Replication v11.0.0.88174 in November, almost two months
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Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning about highly targeted attacks employing compromised Signal accounts to send malware to employees of defense industry firms and members of the country's army forces. The bulletin mentions that the attacks started this month, with Signal messages containing archives posing as meeting reports. With some of these messages sent from existing contacts targets are familiar with, the chances of them opening the archives are higher. The a
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The Vancouver International Auto Show has banned Tesla from this year’s event over safety concerns in the wake of several attacks against dealerships across the U.S., according to several reports from Canadian news outlets. Tesla dealerships and charging stations have been shot with guns and cars have been set on fire, seemingly a response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his ongoing destruction of the U.S. federal government. The show runs from March 19-23 and Eric Nicholl, the executive director, s
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Most organizations today have invested in an email security solution of some description. But even the most premium tools have significant limitations when it comes to modern phishing attacks. The data speaks for itself — phishing remains as big a problem as it ever was (if not bigger!) despite enormous investment in security products and training. In 2024, identity-based attack vectors involving a human element (phishing and stolen credentials) accounted for 80% of the initial access observed
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Large AI models are increasingly used to power agentic systems, or “agents,” which can automate complex tasks on behalf of users. AI agents could have a wide range of potential benefits, such as automating scientific research or serving as personal assistants. However, to fully realize the potential of AI agents, it is essential to identify and measure — in order to ultimately mitigate — the security risks these systems could introduce. Currently, many AI agents are vulnerable to agent hijacki
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Fifty-one seconds. That’s all it takes for an attacker to breach and move laterally across your network, undetected, using stolen credentials to evade detection. Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, explained to VentureBeat just how quickly intruders can escalate privileges and move laterally once they penetrate a system. “
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ebrublue10/Getty Images Cybercriminals are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) across every attack phase. Large language models (LLMs) craft hyper-personalized phishing emails by scraping targets' social media profiles and professional networks. Generative adversarial networks (GAN) produce deepfake audio and video to bypass multi-factor authentication. Automated tools like WormGPT enable script kiddies to launch polymorphic malware that evolves to evade signature-based detection. These c
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Strong and smart security operations teams are at the heart of any cybersecurity strategy, and today a startup that builds tooling to help keep them on their toes is announcing some funding on the back of a lot of growth. Pentera — which has built a system that launches simulations of network attacks to stress test software and human response — is announcing $60 million in funding, a Series D that values the Boston-based, Tel Aviv-founded startup at over $1 billion. The funding will be used for
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'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security." "I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added. "It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme. Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's k
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CISA warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their networks against attacks exploiting three critical vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) appliances. The three flaws (CVE-2024-13159, CVE-2024-13160, and CVE-2024-13161) are due to absolute path traversal weaknesses that can let remote unauthenticated attackers fully compromise vulnerable servers. They were reported in October by Horizon3.ai vulnerability researcher Zach Hanley and patched by Ivanti on January 13. Just over a
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The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian group known as “Dark Storm Team” took credit for the attacks within a few hours. Later on Monday, though, Musk claimed in an interview on Fox Business Network that the attacks had come from Ukrainian IP address
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The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a "massive cyberattack.". "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk posted on X. "We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, co
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