May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting… Read More "U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud"
By focusing on IoT surveillance devices, such as IP cameras and network video recorders, the botnet is exploiting equipment that is typically outside the scope of rigorous security measures. Targeted infiltration via C2 coordination PumaBot connects to a designated C2… Read More "Novel PumaBot slips into IoT surveillance with stealthy SSH break-ins"
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and £1bn worth investment to boost the armed forces’ digital warfare capabilities. The new command will be in charge of defending UK military networks from rising… Read More "UK MoD Launches New Cyber Warfare Command"
The proliferation of AI has rapidly introduced many new software technologies, each with its own potential misconfigurations that can compromise information security. Thus the mission of UpGuard Research: discover the vectors particular to a new technology and measure its cyber… Read More "Analyzing llama.cpp Servers for Prompt Leaks"
May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Breach ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by a nation-state threat actor. “ConnectWise… Read More "ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach"
Die EU macht chinesische Hacker für eine bösartige Cyberkampagne gegen das Außenministerium in Tschechien verantwortlich. Andrii Yalanskyi – shutterstock.com Ein mutmaßlicher chinesischer Hackerangriff gegen das Außenministerium in Tschechien alarmiert die Nato und die EU. In einer gemeinsamen Erklärung der 32… Read More "Hackerangriff auf Außenministerium alarmiert Nato und EU"
On April 4, 2025, The Australian Financial Review reported on a set of credential abuse attacks targeting multiple Australian superannuation funds. These attacks were not breaches of the infrastructure of those companies, but compromises of individual customer accounts via stolen… Read More "Threat Monitoring for Superannuation Security"
Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. “We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps,”… Read More "Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas"
Recall allows users to take snapshots of actions they take on their machines. To use Recall, users’ machine require a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) capable of performing more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). Windows 11 machines shipping… Read More "Securing Windows 11 and Server 2025: What CISOs should know about the latest updates"
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Today, the average phishing email that lands in your CEO’s inbox is flawless. It uses perfect grammar, contains an intimate understanding of your organization’s current business landscape, and ends with an urgent, contextually relevant request. This isn’t the work of… Read More "AI Just Rewrote the Rules of BEC: Are Your Defenses Ready?"
