Identity and access management (IAM) services provider Okta has warned of a spike in the “frequency and scale” of credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services.
These unprecedented attacks, observed over the last month, are said to be facilitated by “the broad availability of residential proxy services, lists of previously stolen credentials (‘combo lists’), and scripting tools,” the

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems.
The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file (“signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx”) as the starting point, with

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A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.

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An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor.
Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEV#POPPER, linking it to North Korean threat actors.
“During these fraudulent interviews, the developers are often asked

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