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🕵️‍♂️ Why Data Privacy Isn't the Same as Data Security 🕵️‍♂️

Failing to distinguish between data privacy and data security leaves businesses vulnerable to regulatory scrutiny and the kinds of breaches that erode consumer trust overnight.

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🕵️‍♂️ Threat Actors Use 'Spam Bombing' Technique to Hide Malicious Motives 🕵️‍♂️

Darktrace researchers detailed "spam bombing," a technique in which threat actors bombard targets with spam emails as a pretense for activity like social engineering campaigns.

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🖋️ Fortinet Warns Attackers Retain FortiGate Access Post-Patching via SSL-VPN Symlink Exploit 🖋️

Fortinet has revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain readonly access to vulnerable FortiGate devices even after the initial access vector used to breach the devices was patched. The attackers are believed to have leveraged known and nowpatched security flaws, including, but not limited to, CVE202242475, CVE202327997, and CVE202421762. "A threat actor used a known.

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🖋️ Paper Werewolf Deploys PowerModul Implant in Targeted Cyberattacks on Russian Sectors 🖋️

The threat actor known as Paper Werewolf has been observed exclusively targeting Russian entities with a new implant called PowerModul. The activity, which took place between July and December 2024, singled out organizations in the mass media, telecommunications, construction, government entities, and energy sectors, Kaspersky said in a new report published Thursday. Paper Werewolf, also known.

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🖋️ Initial Access Brokers Shift Tactics, Selling More for Less 🖋️

What are IABs? Initial Access Brokers IABs specialize in gaining unauthorized entry into computer systems and networks, then selling that access to other cybercriminals. This division of labor allows IABs to concentrate on their core expertise exploiting vulnerabilities through methods like social engineering and bruteforce attacks.  By selling access, they significantly mitigate the.

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🖋️ Palo Alto Networks Warns of Brute-Force Attempts Targeting PAN-OS GlobalProtect Gateways 🖋️

Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it's observing bruteforce login attempts against PANOS GlobalProtect gateways, days after threat hunters warned of a surge in suspicious login scanning activity targeting its appliances. "Our teams are observing evidence of activity consistent with passwordrelated attacks, such as bruteforce login attempts, which does not indicate exploitation of a.

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🖋️ SpyNote, BadBazaar, MOONSHINE Malware Target Android and iOS Users via Fake Apps 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have found that threat actors are setting up deceptive websites hosted on newly registered domains to deliver a known Android malware called SpyNote. These bogus websites masquerade as Google Play Store install pages for apps like the Chrome web browser, indicating an attempt to deceive unsuspecting users into installing the malware instead. "The threat actor utilized a.

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🖋️ OttoKit WordPress Plugin Admin Creation Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation 🖋️

A newly disclosed highseverity security flaw impacting OttoKit formerly SureTriggers has come under active exploitation within a few hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE20253102 CVSS score 8.1, is an authorization bypass bug that could permit an attacker to create administrator accounts under certain conditions and take control of susceptible websites. "The.

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📔 NVD Revamps Operations as Vulnerability Reporting Surges 📔

The NVD program manager has announced undergoing process improvements to catch up with its growing vulnerability backlog.

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📔 Google Cloud: Top 5 Priorities for Cybersecurity Leaders Today 📔

Experts at the Google Cloud Next event set out how security teams need to adapt their focuses in the wake of trends such as rising cyberattacks and advances in AI.

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📔 Cyble Urges Critical Vulnerability Fixes Affecting Industrial Systems 📔

Rockwell Automation, Hitachi Energy and Inaba Denki Sangyo have products affected by critical vulnerabilities carrying severity ratings as high as 9.9.

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🕵️‍♂️ Paper Werewolf Threat Actor Targets Flash Drives With New Malware 🕵️‍♂️

The threat actor, also known as Goffee, has been active since at least 2022 and has changed its tactics and techniques over the years while targeting Russian organizations.

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🕵️‍♂️ Pall Mall Process Progresses but Leads to More Questions 🕵️‍♂️

Nations continue to sign the Code of Practice for States in an effort to curb commercial spyware, yet implementation and enforcement concerns have yet to be figured out.

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🖋️ Weekly Recap: Windows 0-Day, VPN Exploits, Weaponized AI, Hijacked Antivirus and More 🖋️

Attackers arent waiting for patches anymore they are breaking in before defenses are ready. Trusted security tools are being hijacked to deliver malware. Even after a breach is detected and patched, some attackers stay hidden. This weeks events show a hard truth its not enough to react after an attack. You have to assume that any system you trust today could fail tomorrow. In a world.

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🖋️ Weekly Recap: Windows 0-Day, VPN Exploits, Weaponized AI, Hijacked Antivirus and More 🖋️

Attackers arent waiting for patches anymore they are breaking in before defenses are ready. Trusted security tools are being hijacked to deliver malware. Even after a breach is detected and patched, some attackers stay hidden. This weeks events show a hard truth its not enough to react after an attack. You have to assume that any system you trust today could fail tomorrow. In a world.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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📢 Businesses are taking their eye off the ball with vulnerability patching 📢

Security leaders are overconfident in their organizations security posture while allowing vulnerability patching to fall by the wayside.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Global cybersecurity spending is set to rise 12% in 2025 – here are the industries ramping up investment 📢

Global cybersecurity spending is expected to surge this year, fueled by escalating statesponsored threats and the rise of generative AI, according to new analysis from IDC.

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🕵️‍♂️ A New 'It RAT': Stealthy 'Resolver' Malware Burrows In 🕵️‍♂️

A new infostealer on the market is making big waves globally, replacing Lumma et al. in attacks and employing so many stealth, persistence, and antianalysis tricks that it's downright difficult to count them all.

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🕵️‍♂️ 7 RSAC 2025 Cloud Security Sessions You Don't Want to Miss 🕵️‍♂️

Some of the brightest minds in the industry will discuss how to strengthen cloud security.

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🕵️‍♂️ How DigitalOcean Moved Away From Manual Identity Management 🕵️‍♂️

DigitalOcean executives describe how they automated and streamlined many of the identity and access management functions that had been previously handled manually.

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🕵️‍♂️ Morocco Investigates Social Security Agency Data Leak 🕵️‍♂️

A threat actor has claimed responsibility for the alleged politically motivated attack and has uploaded the stolen data to a Dark Web forum.

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