Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such…
Zero-Day Exploits Cheat Sheet: Definition, Examples & How It Works
Highlights Zero-day exploits are vulnerabilities in software or hardware that are unknown to the vendor or developer, so there is no patch or fix available at the time of their…
Mandiant Report: Snowflake Users Targeted for Data Theft and Extortion
A new report from Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, reveals that a financially motivated threat actor named UNC5537 collected and exfiltrated data from about 165 organizations’ Snowflake customer instances. Snowflake…
Prompt Hacking, Private GPTs, Zero-Day Exploits and Deepfakes: Report Reveals the Impact of AI on Cyber Security Landscape
A new report by cyber security firm Radware identifies the four main impacts of AI on the threat landscape emerging this year. Source of Article
Infoblox says IT Pros Are Missing This Mega-Threat From Organised Global Cyber Criminals
High volumes of malware and other malicious content are being delivered to networks in APAC, Australia, New Zealand and across the globe as a result of a set of large-scale…
ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware’s Prevalence
Risk mitigation tips are provided for each of these cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity company ESET released its H2 2023 threat report, and we’re highlighting three particularly interesting topics in it: the…
Sekoia: Latest in the Financial Sector Cyber Threat Landscape
Phishing, infostealer malware, ransomware, supply chain attacks, data breaches and crypto-related attacks are among the top evolving threats in the financial sector, says Sekoia. Source of Article
Kaspersky’s Advanced Persistent Threats Predictions for 2024
Kaspersky’s new report provides the company’s view on the advanced persistent threats landscape for 2024. Existing APT techniques will keep being used, and new ones will likely emerge, such as…
Check Point: Hackers Are Dropping USB Drives at Watering Holes
Image: Timon/Adobe Stock In its 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report, Check Point Software spotlighted numerous exploits so far this year, including novel uses of artificial intelligence and an old-school attack…
Cisco Talos Research: New Lazarus Group Attack Malware Campaign Hits UK & US Businesses
The Cisco Talos report exposes new malware used by the group to target Internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare organizations in the U.K. and the U.S. Image: SomYuZu/Adobe Stock Two reports…