In response to a query for more details, Proofpoint said the message “leveraged the trusted relationship between the compromised sender and the targets by using a business-to-business sales lure”, including an order form and a backgrounder on the company. The… Read More "Polyglot files used to spread new backdoor"
VMware has issued a critical security advisory, warning customers that three zero-day vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities range from important to severe in severity levels, and impact the VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion products. The… Read More "VMware Warns Customers to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws"
Continuous security monitoring (CSM) is a threat intelligence approach that automates the monitoring of information security controls, vulnerabilities, and other cyber threats to support organizational risk management decisions. Organizations need real-time visibility of indicators of compromise, security misconfiguration, and vulnerabilities in their infrastructure and networks. Traditional security controls… Read More "What is Continuous Security Monitoring?"
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse Google has been at the forefront of protecting users from the ever-growing threat of scams and fraud with… Read More "New AI-Powered Scam Detection Features to Help Protect You on Android"
Mar 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Broadcom has released security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure. The list of vulnerabilities is… Read More "VMware Security Flaws Exploited in the Wild—Broadcom Releases Urgent Patches"
Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware… Read More "VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack"
A new cyber-espionage campaign targeting aviation, satellite communications and critical transportation infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. The attack, attributed by Proofpoint to a cluster known as UNK_CraftyCamel, employed a sophisticated infection chain to… Read More "New Cyber-Espionage Campaign Targets UAE Aviation and Transport"
The information security (infosec) space is for the most part divided into two camps: established players using a combination of old/new tactics for combating cybercrime, and market entrants attempting to rethink security from the ground up. Attack methods are increasingly… Read More "Carbon Black vs Symantec Endpoint Protection"
Mar 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Threat Intelligence Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously… Read More "Researchers Link CACTUS Ransomware Tactics to Former Black Basta Affiliates"
Die kontextuellen Daten, die SIEM-Lösungen liefern, sind eine grundlegende Komponente moderner Security-Stacks. PeopleImages.com – Yuri A | shutterstock.com Protokoll-Daten zu auditieren, zu überprüfen und zu managen, ist alles andere als eine glamouröse Aufgabe – aber ein entscheidender Aspekt, um ein… Read More "SIEM-Kaufratgeber"
