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A security key for every employee? Yubikey-as-a-Service goes global
/in General NewsYubico’s roaming authenticators can now be provisioned and delivered in 175 countries. Here’s what the service offers.
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South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware
/in General NewsHigh-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder.
“The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,” Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas
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AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts.
“These roles, often created automatically or recommended during setup, grant overly broad permissions, such as full S3
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Compromised RVTools Installer Spreading Bumblebee Malware
/in General NewsRVTools installer on its official site was found delivering malware. Research shows it spread Bumblebee loader. Users urged to verify downloads.
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The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report
/in General NewsIn the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises (200 from within the USA) to understand the strategies, tactics, and tools they use to cope with the thousands of security alerts, the persisting breaches and the growing cyber risks they have to handle. The findings reveal a complex picture of progress, challenges, and a shifting mindset
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CloudSEK Raises $19 Million for Threat Intelligence Platform
/in General NewsThreat protection and intelligence firm CloudSEK raises $19 million in funding from new and existing investors.
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O2 Service Vulnerability Exposed User Location
/in General NewsA vulnerability in O2’s implementation of the IMS standard resulted in user location data being exposed in network responses.
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New Nitrogen Ransomware Targets Financial Firms in the US, UK and Canada
/in General NewsNitrogen, a ransomware strain, has emerged as a major threat to organizations worldwide, with a particular focus on…
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Go-Based Malware Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts via Redis Configuration Abuse
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new Linux cryptojacking campaign that’s targeting publicly accessible Redis servers.
The malicious activity has been codenamed RedisRaider by Datadog Security Labs.
“RedisRaider aggressively scans randomized portions of the IPv4 space and uses legitimate Redis configuration commands to execute malicious cron jobs on vulnerable systems,”
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Malicious PyPI Packages Exploit Instagram and TikTok APIs to Validate User Accounts
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that act as checker tools to validate stolen email addresses against TikTok and Instagram APIs.
All three packages are no longer available on PyPI. The names of the Python packages are below –
checker-SaGaF (2,605 downloads)
steinlurks (1,049 downloads)
sinnercore (3,300 downloads)
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