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🧠 Taking the fight to the enemy: Cyber persistence strategy gains momentum 🧠

The nature of cyber warfare has evolved rapidly over the last decade, forcing the worlds governments and industries to reimagine their cybersecurity strategies. While deterrence and reactive defenses once dominated the conversation, the emergence of cyber persistence actively hunting down threats before they materialize has become the new frontier. This shift, spearheaded by The post Taking the fight to the enemy Cyber persistence strategy gains momentum appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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🖋️ Experts Find Shared Codebase Linking Morpheus and HellCat Ransomware Payloads 🖋️

An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using identical code for their ransomware payloads. The findings come from SentinelOne, which analyzed artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform by the same submitter towards the end of December 2024. "These two payload samples are.

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🕵️‍♂️ CISA: Ivanti Vulns Chained Together in Cyberattack Onslaught 🕵️‍♂️

The threat actors are abusing the vulnerabilities to gain initial access, obtain credentials, and install malicious scripts on user devices.

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🕵️‍♂️ The Security Risk of Rampant Shadow AI 🕵️‍♂️

While employees want to take advantage of the increased efficiency of GenAI and LLMs, CISOs and IT teams must be diligent and stay on top of the most uptodate security regulations.

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🕵️‍♂️ Black 'Magic' Targets Enterprise Juniper Routers With Backdoor 🕵️‍♂️

Such routers typically lack endpoint detection and response protection, are in front of a firewall, and don't run monitoring software like Sysmon, making the attacks harder to detect.

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🦿 Phishing Emails Targeting Australian Firms Rise by 30% in 2024 🦿

For the APAC region as a whole, credential phishing attacks rose by 30.5 between 2023 and 2024.

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🦿 GhostGPT: Uncensored Chatbot Used by Cyber Criminals for Malware Creation, Scams 🦿

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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🖋️ Palo Alto Firewalls Found Vulnerable to Secure Boot Bypass and Firmware Exploits 🖋️

An exhaustive evaluation of three firewall models from Palo Alto Networks has uncovered a host of known security flaws impacting the devices' firmware as well as misconfigured security features. "These weren't obscure, cornercase vulnerabilities," security vendor Eclypsium said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Instead these were very wellknown issues that we wouldn't expect to see.

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🖋️ Beware: Fake CAPTCHA Campaign Spreads Lumma Stealer in Multi-Industry Attacks 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware campaign that leverages fake CAPTCHA verification checks to deliver the infamous Lumma information stealer. "The campaign is global, with Netskope Threat Labs tracking victims targeted in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, the Philippines, and other countries around the world," Leandro Fres, senior threat research engineer at.

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🖋️ New Research: The State of Web Exposure 2025 🖋️

Are your websites leaking sensitive data? New research reveals that 45 of thirdparty apps access user info without proper authorization, and 53 of risk exposures in Retail are due to the excessive use of tracking tools. Learn how to uncover and mitigate these hidden threats and risksdownload the full report here. New research by web exposure management specialist Reflectiz reveals several.

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🖋️ Custom Backdoor Exploiting Magic Packet Vulnerability in Juniper Routers 🖋️

Enterprisegrade Juniper Networks routers have become the target of a custom backdoor as part of a campaign dubbed Jmagic. According to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the activity is so named for the fact that the backdoor continuously monitors for a "magic packet" sent by the threat actor in TCP traffic.  "Jmagic campaign marks the rare occasion of malware designed.

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📔 Chained Vulnerabilities Exploited in Ivanti Cloud Service Appliances 📔

Threat actors chained Ivanti CSA vulnerabilities for RCE, credential theft webshell deployment.

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📔 Bookmakers Ramp Up Efforts to Combat Arbitrage Betting Fraud 📔

Arbitrage betting fraud rises, forcing bookmakers to adopt stricter measures against automated scams.

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🕵️‍♂️ Cloudflare CDN Bug Outs User Locations on Signal, Discord 🕵️‍♂️

Attackers can use a zero or oneclick flaw to send a malicious image to targets an image that can deanonymize a user within seconds, posing a threat to journalists, activists, hackers, and others whose locations are sensitive.

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🕵️‍♂️ Tesla Gear Gets Hacked Multiple Times in Pwn2Own Contests 🕵️‍♂️

The first team to successfully hack the electric vehicle maker's charger won 50,000 for their ingenuity.

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🕵️‍♂️ War Game Pits China Against Taiwan in All-Out Cyberwar 🕵️‍♂️

At Black Hat and DEF CON, cybersecurity experts were asked to game out how Taiwan could protect its communications and power infrastructure in case of invasion by China.

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🖋️ Android's New Identity Check Feature Locks Device Settings Outside Trusted Locations 🖋️

Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. "When you turn on Identity Check, your device will require explicit biometric authentication to access certain sensitive resources when you're outside of trusted locations," Google said in a post announcing the.

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🖋️ CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday placed a nowpatched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The mediumseverity vulnerability is CVE202011023 CVSS score 6.16.9, a nearly fiveyearold crosssite scripting XSS bug that could be.

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📔 Ransomware Gangs Linked by Shared Code and Ransom Notes 📔

SentinelOne researchers highlighted similarities in the approaches used by the HellCat and Morpheus ransomware groups, suggesting shared infrastructure.

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🖋️ DoJ Indicts 5 Individuals for $866K North Korean IT Worker Scheme Violations 🖋️

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent information technology IT worker scheme that seeks to generate revenue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK in violation of international sanctions. The action targets Jin SungIl , Pak.

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📢 How to enable M365 Copilot for your organisation 📢

Maximising the value of technology in an evolving defence sector.

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