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🖋️ Astaroth Banking Malware Resurfaces in Brazil via Spear-Phishing Attack 🖋️

A new spearphishing campaign targeting Brazil has been found delivering a banking malware called Astaroth aka Guildma by making use of obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security guardrails. "The spearphishing campaign's impact has targeted various industries, with manufacturing companies, retail firms, and government agencies being the most affected," Trend Micro said in a new analysis. ".

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📔 Cyber Threats Escalating Beyond Ability to Defend, New NCSC Head Warns 📔

New NCSC CEO Dr Richard Horne warned in a speech that there is a widening gap between escalating threats and societys ability to defend against them.

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📔 FIDO Alliance Proposes New Passkey Exchange Standard 📔

The new set of specifications could enable users to securely move passkeys and all other credentials across providers.

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📔 Experts Play Down Significance of Chinese Quantum “Hack” 📔

DigiCert says imminent crypto threat from quantum computing has been overhyped.

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📔 UK Government Launches AI Safety Scheme to Tackle Deepfakes 📔

New government grants for AI safety research are designed to fund work into deepfakes and other cyber risks.

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🦅 CISA Issues Urgent Advisory on Vulnerabilities Affecting Multiple Products 🦅

Overview The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released a critical advisory report highlighting vulnerabilities recently added to the Known Exploited Vulnerability KEV catalog. These vulnerabilities pose risks to organizations and require immediate attention. CISA categorizes vulnerabilities based on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE naming standards and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS. This system classifies vulnerabilities into high, medium, and low categories. High vulnerabilities are assigned scores ranging from 7.0 to 10.0 medium vulnerabilities receive scores between 4.0 and 6.9, and low vulnerabilities score between 0.0 and 3.9. The advisory outlines specific vulnerabilities and the products they affect, including SolarWin...

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🧠 Navigating the ethics of AI in cybersecurity 🧠

Even if were not always consciously aware of it, artificial intelligence is now all around us. Were already used to personalized recommendation systems in ecommerce, customer service chatbots powered by conversational AI and a whole lot more. In the realm of information security, weve already been relying on AIpowered spam filters for years to protect The post Navigating the ethics of AI in cybersecurity appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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📢 New Loader Masquerades as Antivirus to Deliver SSLoad 📢

A new malware loader, PhantomLoader, disguises itself as an antivirus software module to deliver the evasive SSLoad malware, bypassing traditional security measures.

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📢 Cisco confirms investigation amid data breach claims 📢

The networking giant says its probe is ongoing amid claims a threat actors accessed company data.

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🕵️‍♂️ What Cybersecurity Leaders Can Learn From the Game of Golf 🕵️‍♂️

As in golf, security requires collaboration across the entire organization, from individual contributors in each department to the executive level and the board.

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🕵️‍♂️ Sidewinder Casts Wide Geographic Net in Latest Attack Spree 🕵️‍♂️

The longactive, Indiasponsored cyberthreat group targeted multiple entities across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and even Europe in a recent attack wave that demonstrated the use of a previously unknown postexploit tool called StealerBot.

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🦿 Engaging Executives: How to Present Cybersecurity in a Way That Resonates 🦿

Getting buyin can be difficult. SafeU founder and CEO Jorge Litvin explains how to create a common language between the CISO and the rest of the Csuite.

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🦿 Urban VPN Review (2024): Is it a Safe & Reliable VPN to Use? 🦿

With its questionable privacy policy, slow VPN performance, and lack of independent audits, Urban VPN fails to offer a secure and quality VPN experience.

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🦿 How to Use Call Detail Records to Detect Fraud 🦿

Learn how data from call detail records can help you find fraud calls made by your phone system and prevent them from happening again.

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🛠 GNUnet P2P Framework 0.22.1 🛠

GNUnet is a peertopeer framework with focus on providing security. All peertopeer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP IPv4 and IPv6, TCP IPv4 and IPv6, HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.

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🖋️ Hackers Abuse EDRSilencer Tool to Bypass Security and Hide Malicious Activity 🖋️

Threat actors are attempting to abuse the opensource EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response EDR solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected "threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection." EDRSilencer, inspired by the NightHawk FireBlock tool from MDSec, is.

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🖋️ FIDO Alliance Drafts New Protocol to Simplify Passkey Transfers Across Different Platforms 🖋️

The FIDO Alliance said it's working to make passkeys and other credentials more easier to export across different providers and improve credential provider interoperability, as more than 12 billion online accounts become accessible with the passwordless signin method. To that end, the alliance said it has published a draft for a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange,.

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📔 CISA Urges Improvements in US Software Supply Chain Transparency 📔

CISA released the third edition of SBOM guidelines to enhance software component transparency.

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📔 Ethical Hackers Embrace AI Tools Amid Rising Cyber Threats 📔

A new Bugcrowd study shows 71 of ethical hackers now see AI boosting hacking value, up from 21 in 2023.

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📔 Coffee Lovers Warned of New Starbucks Phishing Scam 📔

Phishing emails claiming to be from Starbucks are offering recipients a "free Coffee Lovers Box" in an attempt to steal personal or install malware on devices.

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🦅 Critical Vulnerability in Veeam Products Exploited by Ransomware Gangs 🦅

Key Takeaways A critical vulnerability, CVE202440711, was discovered in Veeam Backup Replication, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. CVE202440711 has a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating an urgent need for remediation due to its severity.  Threat actors are actively exploiting this vulnerability to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware. Veeam issued security updates to address these vulnerabilities in early September 2024. Multiple Veeam products were also affected by different vulnerabilities, including Veeam Backup Replication, Veeam ONE, and Veeam Agent for Linux, among others. Organizations are urged to implement regular update protocols, enhance monitoring, and develop incident response plans to mitigate risks. Overview Threat actors have exploited a re...

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