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MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws
The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and...
Pentera’s 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation
Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half. And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their...
Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes.
Ransomware Double-Dip: Re-Victimization in Cyber Extortion
Between crossovers - Do threat actors play dirty or desperate? In our dataset of over 11,000 victim organizations that have experienced a Cyber Extortion / Ransomware attack, we noticed that some victims re-occur. Consequently, the question arises why we observe a...
Ukrainian Soldiers’ Apps Increasingly Targeted for Spying, Cyber Agency Warns
The agency is attributing the surge to a group tracked as UAC-0184, which was spotted in February targeting an unnamed Ukrainian entity in Finland. CERT-UA does not attribute UAC-0184’s activity to any specific foreign cyber threat group.
Report: 51% of Enterprises Experienced a Breach Despite Large Security Stacks
Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface. Around 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according to a survey by Pentera.
Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. "When a user executes a function that has a path argument in...
Rising Ransomware Issue: English-Speaking Western Affiliates
Security experts say Western teenagers comprise a number of active affiliate groups, many with ties to the cybercrime community that calls itself "The Community," aka the Com or Comm.
NATO to Launch New Cyber Center to Contest Cyberspace ‘At All Times’
The new facility, details about which have not previously been reported, marks the fruition of a significant doctrinal shift in how the alliance approaches operations in cyberspace.
Microsoft Warns: North Korean Hackers Turn to AI-Fueled Cyber Espionage
Microsoft has revealed that North Korea-linked state-sponsored cyber actors has begun to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make its operations more effective and efficient. "They are learning to use tools powered by AI large language models (LLM) to make their...
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