Australia Requires Ransomware Victims to Declare Payments
A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made.
Cyber News
- June 2, 2025
- June 2, 2025
The Secret Defense Strategy of Four Critical Industries Combating Advanced Cyber Threats
The evolution of cyber threats has forced organizations across all industries to rethink their security strategies. As attackers become more sophisticated — leveraging encryption, living-off-the-land techniques, and lateral movement to evade traditional defenses — security teams are finding more threats wreaking havoc before they can be detected. Even after an attack has been identified, it […]
Cyber News
- June 2, 2025
Fake Recruiter Emails Target CFOs Using Legit NetBird Tool Across 6 Global Regions
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new spear-phishing campaign that uses a legitimate remote access tool called Netbird to target Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and financial executives at banks, energy companies, insurers, and investment firms across Europe, Africa, Canada, the Middle East, and South Asia. “In what appears to be a multi-stage phishing operation, the […]
Cyber News
- May 31, 2025
New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora
Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. […]
Cyber News
- May 31, 2025
U.S. DoJ Seizes 4 Domains Supporting Cybercrime Crypting Services in Global Operation
A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized four domains and their associated server facilitated the crypting service on […]
Cyber News
- May 30, 2025
New EDDIESTEALER Malware Bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption to Steal Browser Data
A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. “This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which ultimately deploys the infostealer, harvesting sensitive data such as credentials, browser information, […]
Cyber News
- May 30, 2025
Damascened Peacock: Russian hackers targeted UK Ministry of Defence
Graham CLULEY May 30, 2025 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The UK’s Ministry of Defence has revealed that it was the target of a sophisticated, cyber attack that saw Russia-linked hackers pose as journalists. The foiled attack was one of over 90,000 cyber attacks linked to hostile states […]
Cyber News
- May 30, 2025
China-Linked Hackers Exploit SAP and SQL Server Flaws in Attacks Across Asia and Brazil
The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. “The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of […]
Cyber News
- May 30, 2025
Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity
There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and […]
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