Manufacturing Sector Under Fire From Microsoft Credential Thieves

The emails impersonate well-known companies in the industry, fooling the victim into thinking they are communicating with a legitimate entity.

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LinkedIn Hires Former Twitter Security Chief Lea Kissner as New CISO

Lea Kissner replaces Geoff Belknap as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Microsoft-owned LinkedIn.

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APT-C-60 Group Exploit WPS Office Flaw to Deploy SpyGlace Backdoor

A South Korea-aligned cyber espionage has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Kingsoft WPS Office to deploy a bespoke backdoor dubbed SpyGlace.
The activity has been attributed to a threat actor dubbed APT-C-60, according to cybersecurity firms ESET and DBAPPSecurity. The attacks have been found to infect Chinese and East Asian users

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Hitachi Energy Vulnerabilities Plague SCADA Power Systems

The company has assessed four of the five disclosed vulnerabilities as being of high to critical severity.

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BlackByte Blends Known Tactics With New Encryptor Variant and Vulnerability Exploits to Support Ongoing Attacks

The latest encryptor variant identified by researchers at Cisco Talos appends the file extension ‘blackbytent_h’ to encrypted files. This variant also includes the deployment of four vulnerable drivers, an increase from previous reports.

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New LummaC2 Malware Variant Uses PowerShell, Obfuscation to Steal Data

Ontinue has discovered a new LummaC2 malware variant with increased activity, using PowerShell for initial infection and employing…

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Why LLMs Are Just the Tip of the AI Security Iceberg

With the right processes and tools, organizations can implement advanced AI security frameworks that make hidden risks visible, enabling security teams to track and address them before impact.

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WPS Office Zero-Day Exploited by South Korea-Linked Cyberspies

A WPS Office zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE⁠-⁠2024⁠-⁠7262 was exploited by South Korean hacker group APT-C-60.

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Check Point Acquires Cybersecurity Startup Cyberint

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies has announced the acquisition of threat intelligence company Cyberint, marking its third startup acquisition in a year.

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Malware Delivered via Malicious Pidgin Plugin, Signal Fork

Threat actors delivered malware via instant messaging applications, including a malicious Pidgin plugin and an unofficial Signal fork.

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