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How Geopolitical Tensions Are Shaping Cyber Warfare
1 year 2 months ago
In today's cyber battlefield, resilience starts with readiness, and the cost of falling short increases by the day.
Andrew Costis
Charming Kitten APT Tries Spying on Israeli Cybersecurity Experts
1 year 2 months ago
Israel's cyber pros are having to put theory into practice, as a notorious nation-state APT sponsored by Iran targets them with spear-phishing attacks.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Cloud Repatriation Driven by AI, Cost, and Security
1 year 2 months ago
Organizations are moving away from the public cloud and embracing a more hybrid approach due to big changes over the past five years.
Arielle Waldman
And Now Malware That Tells AI to Ignore It?
1 year 2 months ago
Though rudimentary and largely non-functional, the wryly named "Skynet" binary could be a harbinger of things to come on the malware front.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Taming Agentic AI Risks Requires Securing Non-Human Identities
1 year 2 months ago
As the definition of machine identities broadens, AI agents working on behalf of users and gaining access to various services blurs the lines of non-human identities even more.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
Millions of Brother Printers Hit by Critical, Unpatchable Bug
1 year 2 months ago
A slew of vulnerabilities, including a critical CVSS 9.8 that enables an attacker to generate the default admin password, affect hundreds of printer, scanner, and label-maker models made by manufacturer Brother.
Alexander Culafi
CISA Is Shrinking: What Does It Mean for Cyber?
1 year 2 months ago
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 7: Cyber experts Tom Parker and Jake Williams offer their views on the practical impact of cuts to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Dark Reading Staff
Dire Wolf Ransomware Comes Out Snarling, Bites Technology, Manufacturing
1 year 2 months ago
The emerging group has already gotten its teeth into 16 victims since May with its double extortion tactics, claiming victims in 11 countries, including the US, Thailand, and Taiwan.
Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Hundreds of MCP Servers Expose AI Models to Abuse, RCE
1 year 2 months ago
The servers that connect AI with real-world data are occasionally wide-open channels for cyberattacks.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Generative AI Exacerbates Software Supply Chain Risks
1 year 2 months ago
Malicious actors are exploiting AI-fabricated software components — presenting a major challenge for securing software supply chains.
Georgianna Shea, Elaine Ly
XOR Marks the Flaw in SAP GUI
1 year 2 months ago
The company has patched two vulnerabilities in its Graphical User Interface that would have allowed attackers to grab data from a user's input history feature.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles
1 year 2 months ago
Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
Threat Actor Trojanizes Copy of SonicWall NetExtender VPN App
1 year 2 months ago
A threat actor hacked a version of SonicWall's NetExtender SSL VPN application in an effort to trick users into installing a Trojanized version of the product.
Alexander Culafi
China-Nexus 'LapDogs' Network Thrives on Backdoored SOHO Devices
1 year 2 months ago
The campaign infected devices in the US and Southeast Asia to build an operational relay box (ORB) network for use as an extensive cyber-espionage infrastructure.
Rob Wright
Steel Giant Nucor Confirms Data Stolen in Cyberattack
1 year 2 months ago
America's largest steel producer initially disclosed the breach in May and took potentially affected systems offline to investigation the intrusion and contain any malicious activity.
Kristina Beek
How the US Military Is Redefining Zero Trust
1 year 2 months ago
Trust no longer comes from network boundaries alone but from continuously validating and protecting data and identities at every interaction.
Kelly Davis
Oh! Canada Added to List of Nations Targeted in Salt Typhoon Telecom Spree
1 year 2 months ago
The Canadian Center for Cybersecurity has confirmed that the Chinese state-sponsored cyber-threat actor targeted one of its telecommunications companies in February via a Cisco flaw, as part of global attack wave.
Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
SparkKitty Swipes Pics From iOS, Android Devices
1 year 2 months ago
Like its predecessor, SparkCat, the new malware appears to be going after sensitive data — such as seed phrases for cryptocurrency wallets — in device photo galleries.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
'Echo Chamber' Attack Blows Past AI Guardrails
1 year 2 months ago
An AI security researcher has developed a proof of concept that uses subtle, seemingly benign prompts to get GPT and Gemini to generate inappropriate content.
Alexander Culafi
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