The threat actor known as Confucius has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that has targeted Pakistan with malware families like WooperStealer and Anondoor.
“Over the past decade, Confucius has repeatedly targeted government agencies, military organizations, defense contractors, and critical industries — especially in Pakistan – using spear-phishing and malicious documents as initial
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that claims to offer the ability to create a SOCKS5 proxy service, while also providing a stealthy backdoor-like functionality to drop additional payloads on Windows systems.
The deceptive package, named soopsocks, attracted a total of 2,653 downloads before it was taken down. It was first
Penetration testing is critical to uncovering real-world security weaknesses. With the shift into continuous testing and validation, it is time we automate the delivery of these results.
The way results are delivered hasn’t kept up with today’s fast-moving threat landscape. Too often, findings are packaged into static reports, buried in PDFs or spreadsheets, and handed off manually to
From unpatched cars to hijacked clouds, this week’s Threatsday headlines remind us of one thing — no corner of technology is safe. Attackers are scanning firewalls for critical flaws, bending vulnerable SQL servers into powerful command centers, and even finding ways to poison Chrome’s settings to sneak in malicious extensions.
On the defense side, AI is stepping up to block ransomware in real
Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have disclosed that they are tracking a new cluster of activity possibly linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as Cl0p.
The malicious activity involves sending extortion emails to executives at various organizations and claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite.
“This activity began on or
Running a SOC often feels like drowning in alerts. Every morning, dashboards light up with thousands of signals; some urgent, many irrelevant. The job is to find the real threats fast enough to keep cases from piling up, prevent analyst burnout, and maintain client or leadership confidence.
The toughest challenges, however, aren’t the alerts that can be dismissed quickly, but the ones that hide
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two Android spyware campaigns dubbed ProSpy and ToSpy that impersonate apps like Signal and ToTok to target users in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said the malicious apps are distributed via fake websites and social engineering to trick unsuspecting users into downloading them. Once installed, both the spyware
Researchers uncovered a security flaw in Salesforce’s shiny new Agentforce. The vulnerability, dubbed “ForcedLeak”, let them smuggle AI-read instructions in via humble Web-to-Lead form… and ended up spilling data for the low, low price of five dollars.
And we discuss why data breach communicationss still default to “we take security seriously” while quietly implying “assume no breach” – until the inevitable walk-back.
Plus, we take a look at ITV’s phone-hacking drama with David Tennant, and take a crack at decoding the history of the Rosetta Stone.
Hear all this and more in episode 437 of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Paul Ducklin.
Most of the apps on your phone is talking to a server somewhere – sending and receiving data through messages sent through APIs, the underlying infrastructure that allows apps to communicate.
And here’s the problem – hackers have determined that the APIs of mobile apps, when left visible and exploitable, can be a goldmine.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
In yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data.
SGX is designed as a hardware feature in Intel server processors that allows applications to be run in a Trusted Execution