From Retail Rampages to 2FA Fails: Trustwave’s Wild Ride Through the 2024 Cybersecurity Circus 2024-12-30 at 18:18 By As always in cybersecurity, hardly a dull day went by in 2024. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:
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New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits 2024-12-30 at 15:03 By The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard patients’ data against potential cyber attacks. The proposal, which seeks to modify
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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips 2024-12-30 at 15:03 By Every week, the digital world faces new challenges and changes. Hackers are always finding new ways to breach systems, while defenders work hard to keep our data safe. Whether it’s a hidden flaw in popular software or a clever new attack
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When Good Extensions Go Bad: Takeaways from the Campaign Targeting Browser Extensions 2024-12-30 at 13:51 By News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25 extensions, with an install base of over two million users,
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Attack Surface Management (ASM) in 2025: Key Trends to Watch 2024-12-30 at 11:20 By Ashish Khaitan The digital world is evolving at lightning speed, and so are the challenges that come with it. For organizations today, their attack surface—the sum of all potential entry points for a cyberattack—is expanding faster than ever before. From misconfigured
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A Look at CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2024 2024-12-30 at 10:19 By Ashish Khaitan Overview The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 185 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog in 2024, as the database grew to 1,238 software and hardware flaws at high risk of cyberattacks. The agency removed at
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The sixth sense of cybersecurity: How AI spots threats before they strike 2024-12-30 at 07:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Vineet Chaku, President of Reaktr.ai, discusses how AI is transforming cybersecurity, particularly in anomaly detection and threat identification. Chaku talks about the skills cybersecurity professionals need to collaborate with AI systems
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Minimizing CISO personal liability through end of year budgeting 2024-12-30 at 07:20 By To minimize the potential risks to their organizations and their own personal well-being, there are a number of steps CISOs should consider taking as they work to prepare for fiscal year 2025. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s
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reconFTW: Open-source reconnaissance automation 2024-12-30 at 07:05 By Help Net Security reconFTW is an open-source tool that simplifies and automates the reconnaissance process, delivering subdomain enumeration, vulnerability assessment, and gathering intelligence about a target. Using various techniques — such as passive and brute-force methods, permutations, certificate transparency analysis, source code scraping, analytics tracking, and DNS
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Machine identities are the next big target for attackers 2024-12-30 at 06:34 By Help Net Security 86% of organizations had a security incident related to their cloud native environment within the last year, according to Venafi. As a result, 53% of organizations had to delay an application launch or slow down production time; 45% suffered
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Cybercriminals tighten their grip on organizations 2024-12-30 at 06:06 By Help Net Security Cybercriminals are using a variety of new methods to target organizations across industries. In this article, we examine the most pressing trends and findings from the 2024 surveys on the growing threat of cybercrime. Social engineering scams sweep through financial institutions North
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It’s only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks 2024-12-29 at 20:36 By Jessica Lyons ‘The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering’ Interview Now that criminals have realized there’s no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes – it’s much cheaper and easier to steal credentials
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16 Chrome Extensions Hacked, Exposing Over 600,000 Users to Data Theft 2024-12-29 at 20:16 By A new attack campaign has targeted known Chrome browser extensions, leading to at least 16 extensions being compromised and exposing over 600,000 users to data exposure and credential theft. The attack targeted publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web
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How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub’s meteoric rise 2024-12-28 at 14:51 By Jessica Lyons Cut off one head, two more grow back in its place RansomHub, the ransomware collective that emerged earlier this year, quickly gained momentum, outpacing its criminal colleagues and hitting its victims especially hard. The group named and shamed
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Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers 2024-12-28 at 11:48 By Richard Speed Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner Feature Remember the excitement of leafing through a catalog for home computer bargains? Or perhaps gazing longingly at festive tech displays in Britain’s WH Smith (or ComputerLand if you
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15,000+ Four-Faith Routers Exposed to New Exploit Due to Default Credentials 2024-12-28 at 08:45 By A high-severity flaw impacting select Four-Faith routers has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as an operating system (OS) command injection bug
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OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push 2024-12-27 at 22:33 By Tobias Mann We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further Amid growing competition and skyrocketing compute requirements necessary to support the next generation of AI models, OpenAI is shaking up its corporate structure – again.…
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North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign 2024-12-27 at 20:48 By North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing
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Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list 2024-12-27 at 19:33 By Richard Speed Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas The trickle of known issues with Windows 11 24H2 has continued with a new one just in time for festive season: installed the operating
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Disgraced crypto tycoon Do Kwon will finally be extradited to US from Montenegro 2024-12-27 at 19:18 By Reuters A South Korean national, Kwon is the former CEO of Terraform Labs, the company behind the stablecoin TrraUSD that collapsed in 2022. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York
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