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Credential Theft Becomes Cybercriminals' Favorite Target

2 months ago

Researchers measured a threefold increase in credential stealing between 2023 and 2024, with more than 11.3 million such thefts last year.

Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

Ferret Malware Added to 'Contagious Interview' Campaign

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2 months ago

Targets are lured into a fake interview process that convinces them to download malware needed for a virtual interview.

Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

Cybercriminals Court Traitorous Insiders via Ransom Notes

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2 months ago

Ransomware actors are offering individuals millions to turn on their employers and divulge private company information, in a brand-new cybercrime tactic.

Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

Chinese 'Infrastructure Laundering' Abuses AWS, Microsoft Cloud

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2 months ago

Funnull CDN rents IPs from legitimate cloud service providers and uses them to host criminal websites, continuously cycling cloud resources in and out of use and acquiring new ones to stay ahead of cyber-defender detection.

Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

Managing Software Risk in a World of Exploding Vulnerabilities

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2 months ago

Organizations and development teams need to evolve from "being prepared" to "managing the risk" of security breaches.

Kirsten Newcomer

DNSFilter's Annual Security Report Reveals Worrisome Spike in Malicious DNS Requests

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2 months ago

EMEA CISOs Plan 2025 Cloud Security Investment

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Interactive Online Training for Cybersecurity Professionals; Earn CPE Credits

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2 months ago

'Constitutional Classifiers' Technique Mitigates GenAI Jailbreaks

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2 months ago

Anthropic says its Constitutional Classifiers approach offers a practical way to make it harder for bad actors to try and coerce an AI model off its guardrails.

Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

Name That Edge Toon: In the Cloud

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2 months ago

Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 gift card.

John Klossner

Microsoft Sets End Date for Defender VPN

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2 months ago

Though Windows, iOS, and macOS users won't need to make any changes, Android users are advised to remove their Defender VPN profiles.

Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

AI Malware Dressed Up as DeepSeek Packages Lurk in PyPi

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2 months ago

Adversaries looking to ride the DeepSeek interest wave are taking advantage of developers in a rush to deploy the new technology, by using AI-generated malware against them.

Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading

Ransomware Groups Weathered Raids, Profited in 2024

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2 months ago

Cybercriminals posted nearly 6,000 breaches to data-leak sites last year — and despite significant takedowns, they continued to thrive in a record-breaking year for ransomware.

Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer

1-Click Phishing Campaign Targets High-Profile X Accounts

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2 months ago

In an attack vector that's been used before, threat actors aim to commit crypto fraud by hijacking highly followed users, thus reaching a broad audience of secondary victims.

Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Proactive Vulnerability Management for Engineering Success

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2 months ago

By integrating security into CI/CD, applying automated policies, and supporting developers with the right processes and tools, infosec teams can increase efficiency and build secure software.

Remi Yazigi