Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of… Read More "Building Cyber Resilience in Financial Services"
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security The threat actor known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technologies as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary… Read More "Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection"
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananIncident Response / Cloud Security SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity – carried out by a… Read More "SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach"
Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It’s no surprise that many SOCs face burnout before they face their next breach. But this… Read More "Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps"
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea’s global financial network for laundering money for various illicit schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker… Read More "U.S. Sanctions 10 North Korean Entities for Laundering $12.7M in Crypto and IT Fraud"
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from users’ memories and chat histories… Read More "Researchers Find ChatGPT Vulnerabilities That Let Attackers Trick AI Into Leaking Data"
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Threat Intelligence Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model API to… Read More "Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly"
Nov 05, 2025The Hacker NewsMobile Security / Enterprise IT Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth, “Android isn’t secure.” Android phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy, unlock new ways of working. But, as an IT admin, you may worry… Read More "Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox"
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Cyber Espionage A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions… Read More "Mysterious ‘SmudgedSerpent’ Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran–Israel Tensions"
Nov 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Gladinet and Control Web Panel (CWP) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation… Read More "CISA Adds Gladinet and CWP Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation Evidence"
