Advantest Corporation, the Japanese technology company and prominent manufacturer of testing equipment for the semiconductor industry, has been hit by a ransomware attack. In a statement released on February 19, the company, which is a supplier to major chip producers… Read More "Leading Semiconductor Supplier Advantest Hit by Ransomware Attack"
A low-skilled cyber threat actor has been observed leveraging several generative AI (GenAI) tools to deploy a malicious campaign aimed at compromising Fortinet’s FortiGate firewall appliances. In an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security blog published on February 20, CJ Moses,… Read More "Russian Cyber Threat Actor Uses GenAI to Compromise Fortinet Firewalls"
A sophisticated Python-based malware deployment uncovered during a fraud investigation has revealed a layered attack involving obfuscation, disposable infrastructure and commercial offensive tools. The discovery was made by the Secuinfra Falcon Team after a user reported unusual desktop behaviour and… Read More "Fraud Investigation Reveals Sophisticated Python Malware"
Evron told CSO that assembling that level of input among so many leaders so quickly reflects the nature of cybersecurity itself: “The cybersecurity industry is also a community, and knowing each other, all folks need to have is a good… Read More "Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift"
Pro-Iranian hackers have claimed a major scalp after causing global disruption at Fortune 500 medical technology vendor Stryker. The Handala group claimed in an online post that it wiped “over 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices” and exfiltrated 50TB of… Read More "Iran Claims Massive Cyber-Attack on MedTech Firm Stryker"
Key Takeaways Network-based detection helps security teams observe suspicious behavior even when exploit signatures do not exist. Zero-day attacks often reveal themselves through reconnaissance, abnormal traffic patterns, and post-exploitation communication. Network visibility helps detect attacker movement across systems during early… Read More "How Can Network-Based Detection Help Stop Zero-Day Exploits?"
Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 and reprimanded after a serious data protection failure when it shared the entire contents of a female officer’s phone with a colleague she accused of rape. The incident, which spanned several months in early… Read More "Police Scotland Fined After Sharing Victim’s Phone Data"
Hybrid environments combine on-premises data centers with public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. This creates complex east-west traffic and north-south flows where advanced cyber threats hide in encrypted tunnels. Fidelis Network® addresses this challenge with patented Deep Session… Read More "Fidelis Network Forensics for Hybrid Infrastructure Visibility"
Ravie LakshmananApr 13, 2026Threat Intelligence / Malware Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known… Read More "JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025"
A newly issued emergency directive from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that attackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN infrastructure used across US federal networks. The directive, known as Emergency Directive 26-03, orders… Read More "CISA Issues Emergency Directive Over Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaws"
