Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: January 2025

The AI Fix #33: AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon’s “unhinged” mode

In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can’t draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips […]

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The First Password on the Internet

It was created in 1973 by Peter Kirstein: So from the beginning I put password protection on my gateway. This had been done in such a way that even if UK users telephoned directly into the communications computer provided by Darpa in UCL, they would require a password. In fact this was the first password […]

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4 Reasons Your SaaS Attack Surface Can No Longer be Ignored

What do identity risks, data security risks and third-party risks all have in common? They are all made much worse by SaaS sprawl. Every new SaaS account adds a new identity to secure, a new place where sensitive data can end up, and a new source of third party risk. Learn how you can protect […]

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Illicit HuiOne Telegram Market Surpasses Hydra, Hits $24 Billion in Crypto Transactions

The Telegram-based online marketplace known as HuiOne Guarantee and its vendors have cumulatively received at least $24 billion in cryptocurrency, dwarfing the now-defunct Hydra to become the largest online illicit marketplace to have ever operated. The figures, released by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, show that monthly inflows have increased by 51% since July 2024. Huione […]

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Fortinet Warns of New Zero-Day Used in Attacks on Firewalls with Exposed Interfaces

Threat hunters are calling attention to a new campaign that has targeted Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed on the public internet. “The campaign involved unauthorized administrative logins on management interfaces of firewalls, creation of new accounts, SSL VPN authentication through those accounts, and various other configuration changes,” cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said […]

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Russia-Linked Hackers Target Kazakhstan in Espionage Campaign with HATVIBE Malware

Russia-linked threat actors have been attributed to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Kazakhstan as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia. The campaign has been assessed to be the work of an intrusion set dubbed UAC-0063, which likely shares overlap with APT28, a nation-state group affiliated with […]

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CISA Adds Second BeyondTrust Flaw to KEV Catalog Amid Active Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a second security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-12686 (CVSS score: 6.6), a medium-severity bug that could […]

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Data Centers Under Siege: Defending the Digital Vaults of the Modern World

Data Centers Under Siege: Defending the Digital Vaults of the Modern World The Blueprint for Defying Cyber Attacks and Natural Disasters Hackers don’t break in through windows—they slip in through the front door you thought was secure. Data centers are the nerve centers of the digital world, storing and processing the data that keeps economies […]

Cyber Thoughts

Pastor’s “dream” crypto scheme alleged to be a multi-million dollar scam

Graham CLULEY January 13, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial A federal grand jury has indicted a 51-year-old church pastor on 26 counts of fraud, after allegedly using his position to deceive victims into investing in a cryptocurrency investment scam. That in itself would seem unusual, but what […]

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