Published on: 2025-04-24 03:47:04
Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. This exposure is being reported by threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation, which initially reported 14,000 devices were exposed. Today, Shadowserver's Piotr Kijewski told BleepingComputer that the cybersecurity organization now detects 16,620 devices impacted by the recently revealed persis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 19:00:22
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Security professionals tasked with protecting their organizations from cyberthreats often have to juggle a host of different programs, services, and products. That scattershot approach can make their work unnecessarily challenging. Now, Google has unveiled a new platform designed to unify and simplify the tools for dealing with the demands of cybersecurity. Also: Why delaying software updates could cost you more than you think Unveiled at Google Cloud Ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 07:35:49
Today, we’re announcing Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model focused on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers. As outlined a year ago, defenders face the daunting task of securing against all cyber threats, while attackers need to successfully find and exploit only a single vulnerability. This fundamental asymmetry has made securing systems extremely difficult, time consuming and error prone. AI-powered cybersecurity workflows have the potential to help shift the balance back to th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 11:11:33
Oracle told Bleeping Computer, and customers, “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data” The threat actor then posted an archive.org URL and provided it to Bleeping Computer, strongly suggesting they had write access to login.us2.oraclecloud.com, a service using Oracle Access Manager. This server is entirely managed by Oracle: Oracle have since requested Archive.org take dow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 19:49:00
A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named 'Lucid' has been targeting 169 entities in 88 countries using well-crafted messages sent on iMessage (iOS) and RCS (Android). Lucid, which has been operated by Chinese cybercriminals known as the 'XinXin group' since mid-2023, is sold to other threat actors via a subscription-based model that gives them access to over 1,000 phishing domains, tailored auto-generated phishing sites, and pro-grade spamming tools. Prodaft researchers note that XinXin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 07:11:33
Oracle told Bleeping Computer, and customers, “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data” The threat actor then posted an archive.org URL and provided it to Bleeping Computer, strongly suggesting they had write access to login.us2.oraclecloud.com, a service using Oracle Access Manager. This server is entirely managed by Oracle: Oracle have since requested Archive.org take dow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 03:20:57
Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid. Last week, a person named ‘rose87168’ claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted passwords of 6 million users. The threat actor also said that stolen SSO and LDAP passwords could
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 03:31:13
Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid. Last week, a person named ‘rose87168’ claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted passwords of 6 million users. The threat actor also said that stolen SSO and LDAP passwords could
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 11:42:51
Cloud-based streaming company StreamElements confirms it suffered a data breach at a third-party service provider after a threat actor leaked samples of stolen data on a hacking forum. The platform has reassured users that the attack didn't impact its servers, though older data at a third-party provider they stopped working with last year was still exposed. "We recently became aware of a data security incident involving a third-party service provider we stopped working with last year," the com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 04:01:11
As businesses continue to migrate their operations to the cloud, maintaining and managing the security of these environments has become mission-critical. Microsoft 365 is a widely adopted suite of productivity tools, but relying solely on its built-in security features may leave organizations vulnerable to significant risks. The Acronis Threat Research Unit recently conducted a quantitative study to explore the core security landscape of Microsoft 365 , and the findings are both alarming and in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 22:16:00
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 18:51:12
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Why is AI becoming essential for cybersecurity? Because every day, in fact every second, malicious actors are using artificial intelligence to widen the scope and speed of their attack methods. For one thing, as Adam Meyers, senior vice president at CrowdStrike, told VentureBeat in a recent interview, “The adversary is getting 10 to 14 minutes faster every year. As the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 02:42:53
PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier, in August, and then again in September. PowerSchool is a cloud-based K-12 software provider serving over 60 million students and 18,000 customers worldwide, offering enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning, analytics, and finance solutions. In December, the company announced that h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 11:11:21
Cybercriminals are sending bogus copyright claims to YouTubers to coerce them into promoting malware and cryptocurrency miners on their videos. The threat actors take advantage of the popularity of Windows Packet Divert (WPD) tools that are increasingly used in Russia as they help users bypass internet censorship and government-imposed restrictions on websites and online services. YouTube creators catering to this audience publish tutorials on how to use various WPD-based tools to bypass censo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 20:18:39
Microsoft warns that Chinese cyber-espionage threat group 'Silk Typhoon' has shifted its tactics, now targeting remote management tools and cloud services in supply chain attacks that give them access to downstream customers. The tech giant has confirmed breaches across multiple industries, including government, IT services, healthcare, defense, education, NGOs, and energy. "They [Silk Typhoon] exploit unpatched applications that allow them to elevate their access in targeted organizations and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 00:33:52
A newly uncovered ClickFix phishing campaign is tricking victims into executing malicious PowerShell commands that deploy the Havok post-exploitation framework for remote access to compromised devices. ClickFix is a social-engineering tactic that emerged last year, where threat actors create websites or phishing attachments that display fake errors and then prompt the user to click a button to fix them. Clicking the button will copy a malicious PowerShell command into the Windows clipboard, wh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 18:25:50
It appears that the U.S. no longer considers Russia a significant cyber threat, according to multiple new reports on a drastic policy reversal that has taken hold under the new Trump administration. The cybersecurity outlet The Record originally reported that under Trump’s new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Cyber Command has been ordered to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” The outlet cites three anonymous sources who are familiar with the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 15:31:21
A threat actor tracked as 'EncryptHub,' aka Larva-208, has been targeting organizations worldwide with spear-phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to corporate networks. According to a report by Prodaft, which was published internally last week and made public yesterday, since June 2024, when EncryptHub initiated operations, it has compromised at least 618 organizations. After gaining access, the threat actors install Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, followed b
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OpenAI says it blocked several North Korean hacking groups from using its ChatGPT platform to research future targets and find ways to hack into their networks. "We banned accounts demonstrating activity potentially associated with publicly reported Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)-affiliated threat actors," the company said in its February 2025 threat intelligence report. "Some of these accounts engaged in activity involving TTPs consistent with a threat group known as VELVET CHOL
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:01:11
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence in machines, enabling systems to learn from data, recognize patterns, and make decisions. These decisions can include predicting outcomes, automating processes, and detecting anomalies. Large Language Models (LLMs) are specialized AI models designed to process, understand, and generate human-like text. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on diverse and extensive textual data. They are designed to understand language and a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 04:21:28
Multiple Russia-aligned threat groups are actively targeting the Signal Messenger application of individuals likely to exchange sensitive military and government communications related to the country's war with Ukraine. For now, the activity appears limited to persons of interest to Russia's intelligence services, according to researchers at Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), who spotted it recently. But the tactics the threat actors are using in the campaign could well serve as a bluep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:21:06
Signal, as an encrypted messaging app and protocol, remains relatively secure. But Signal's growing popularity as a tool to circumvent surveillance has led agents affiliated with Russia to try to manipulate the app's users into surreptitiously linking their devices, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. While Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine is likely driving the country's desire to work around Signal's encryption, "We anticipate the tactics and methods used to target Signal wi
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