Check Point Research: Microsoft the Most Phished Brand in Q2 2023
By Habiba Rashid The report highlights the fact that cybersecurity is essential for brand protection. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Check Point Research: Microsoft the Most Phished Brand in Q2 2023
How to Manage Your Attack Surface?
Attack surfaces are growing faster than security teams can keep up. To stay ahead, you need to know what’s exposed and where attackers are most likely to strike. With cloud migration dramatically increasing the number of internal and external targets, prioritizing threats and managing your attack surface from an attacker’s perspective has never been more […]
CISA and NSA Issue New Guidance to Strengthen 5G Network Slicing Against Threats
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have released a set of recommendations to address security concerns with 5G standalone network slicing and harden them against possible threats. “The threat landscape in 5G is dynamic; due to this, advanced monitoring, auditing, and other analytical capabilities are required to meet certain levels of network slicing service level requirements over
Exploring the Dark Side: OSINT Tools and Techniques for Unmasking Dark Web Operations
On April 5, 2023, the FBI and Dutch National Police announced the takedown of Genesis Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces. The operation, dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster,” resulted in the arrest of 119 people and the seizure of over $1M in cryptocurrency. You can read the FBI’s warrant here for details specific to this case. In […]
Chinese APT41 Hackers Target Mobile Devices with New WyrmSpy and DragonEgg Spyware
The prolific China-linked nation-state actor known as APT41 has been linked to two previously undocumented strains of Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg. “Known for its exploitation of web-facing applications and infiltration of traditional endpoint devices, an established threat actor like APT 41 including mobile in its arsenal of malware shows how mobile endpoints are […]
Bad.Build Flaw in Google Cloud Build Raises Concerns of Privilege Escalation
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud that could enable malicious actors tamper with application images and infect users, leading to supply chain attacks. The issue, dubbed Bad.Build, is rooted in the Google Cloud Build service, according to cloud security firm Orca, which discovered and reported the issue. “By abusing the flaw and […]
U.S. Government Blacklists Cytrox and Intellexa Spyware Vendors for Cyber Espionage
The U.S. government on Tuesday added two foreign commercial spyware vendors, Cytrox and Intellexa, to an economic blocklist for weaponizing cyber exploits to gain unauthorized access to devices and “threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide.” This includes the companies’ corporate holdings in Hungary (Cytrox Holdings Crt), North Macedonia (Cytrox AD), Greece
Zero-Day Attacks Exploited Critical Vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway
Citrix is alerting users of a critical security flaw in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue relates to a case of code injection that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. It impacts the following versions – NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway […]
FakeSG enters the ‘FakeUpdates’ arena to deliver NetSupport RAT
Over 5 years ago, we began tracking a new campaign that we called FakeUpdates (also known as SocGholish) that used compromised websites to trick users into running a fake browser update. Instead, victims would end up infecting their computers with the NetSupport RAT, allowing threat actors to gain remote access and deliver additional payloads. As we have […]
Five key ways to effectively manage email signatures
By Owais Sultan Email is a key, highly effective communication concept used by a variety of business environments around the world.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Five key ways to effectively manage email signatures