Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan
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A network of more than 2,600 Telegram bots has helped exfiltrate one-time passwords and data from devices for more than two years. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Cybercriminals looking to abuse the power of generative AI to build phishing campaigns and sophisticated malware can now purchase easy access to them from underground marketplaces as large numbers of threat actors are putting stolen GenAI credentials up for sale every day. Hackers are selling usernames and passwords of approximately 400 individual GenAI accounts per […]
Japanese organizations are the target of a Chinese nation-state threat actor that leverages malware families like LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR to harvest sensitive information from compromised hosts while stealthily remaining under the radar in some cases for a time period ranging from two to three years. Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason is tracking the campaign under the […]
We’ll TL;DR the FUDdy introduction: we all know that phishing attacks are on the rise in scale and complexity, that AI is enabling more sophisticated attacks that evade traditional defenses, and the never-ending cybersecurity talent gap means we’re all struggling to keep security teams fully staffed. Given that reality, security teams need to be able […]
A new malicious campaign has been observed making use of malicious Android apps to steal users’ SMS messages since at least February 2022 as part of a large-scale campaign. The malicious apps, spanning over 107,000 unique samples, are designed to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used for online account verification to commit identity fraud. “Of those […]
Companies in Russia and Moldova have been the target of a phishing campaign orchestrated by a little-known cyber espionage group known as XDSpy. The findings come from cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., which said the infection chains lead to the deployment of a malware called DSDownloader. The activity was observed this month, it added. XDSpy is a […]
For any enterprise relying on the cloud to accommodate a rapidly growing number of services, ensuring security is a top priority. Yet as most cloud adopters soon realize, migrating to a dynamic cloud environment requires both new and updated security measures to ensure that data and other key assets remain safe throughout the entire online […]
The nation-state espionage group known for attacking Pakistan has expanded its reach to targets in Egypt and Sri Lanka. Go to Source Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
There is nothing like attending a face-to-face event for career networking and knowledge gathering, and we don’t have to tell you how helpful it can be to get a hands-on demo of a new tool or to have your questions answered by experts. Fortunately, plenty of great conferences are coming up in the months ahead. […]