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Cyberattack Knocks Texas City’s Systems Offline

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Cyberattack Knocks Texas City’s Systems Offline 2025-04-22 at 17:36 By Ionut Arghire The city of Abilene, Texas, is scrambling to restore systems that have been taken offline in response to a cyberattack. The post Cyberattack Knocks Texas City’s Systems Offline appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React […]

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Bot Traffic Surpasses Humans Online—Driven by AI and Criminal Innovation

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Bot Traffic Surpasses Humans Online—Driven by AI and Criminal Innovation 2025-04-21 at 16:01 By Kevin Townsend With 51% of internet traffic now bot-driven and a growing share of it malicious, organizations must prepare for an era of more evasive, AI-assisted automation. The post Bot Traffic Surpasses Humans Online—Driven by AI and Criminal Innovation appeared first

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Cybercriminals blend AI and social engineering to bypass detection

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Cybercriminals blend AI and social engineering to bypass detection 2025-04-21 at 08:04 By Help Net Security Attackers are focusing more on stealing identities. Because of this, companies need to use zero trust principles. They should also verify user identities more carefully, says DirectDefense. Researchers analyzed thousands of alerts, mapping them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework,

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The Zoom attack you didn’t see coming

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The Zoom attack you didn’t see coming 2025-04-18 at 17:02 By Zeljka Zorz Did you know that when participating in a Zoom call, you can grant permission to other participants to control your computer remotely? While this feature may come in handy when dealing with trusted family, friends and colleagues, threat actors have started abusing

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In Other News: 4chan Hacked, Android Auto-Reboot, Nemesis Admin Charged

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In Other News: 4chan Hacked, Android Auto-Reboot, Nemesis Admin Charged 2025-04-18 at 14:34 By SecurityWeek News Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: 4chan hacked, auto-reboot security feature coming to Android, Iranian administrator of Nemesis charged in US. The post In Other News: 4chan Hacked, Android Auto-Reboot, Nemesis Admin Charged appeared first on

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When ransomware strikes, what’s your move?

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When ransomware strikes, what’s your move? 2025-04-18 at 08:37 By Sinisa Markovic Should we negotiate? Should we pay? These are the questions every organization faces when cybercriminals lock their data. By the time attackers have encrypted your systems, the focus shifts from prevention to response. It’s no longer about how it happened, it’s about what

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Widely available AI tools signal new era of malicious bot activity

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Widely available AI tools signal new era of malicious bot activity 2025-04-18 at 07:34 By Help Net Security Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale, according to Thales. Automated bot traffic surpassed human-generated traffic for the first time

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Man Helped Chinese Nationals Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects

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Man Helped Chinese Nationals Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects 2025-04-17 at 19:40 By Ionut Arghire Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong pleaded guilty to defrauding US companies of roughly $1 million in a fake IT worker scheme. The post Man Helped Chinese Nationals Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Inside PlugValley: How this AI vishing-as-a-service group operates

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Inside PlugValley: How this AI vishing-as-a-service group operates 2025-04-17 at 07:41 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Alexis Ober, Threat Intel Analyst at Fortra, discusses the threat actor group PlugValley, which is now offering AI-powered vishing-as-a-service. Rather than requiring technical skills or large budgets, PlugValley’s service lets any cybercriminal launch vishing

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New ‘ResolverRAT’ Targeting Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Organizations

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New ‘ResolverRAT’ Targeting Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Organizations 2025-04-14 at 16:49 By Ionut Arghire Organizations in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors have been targeted with ResolverRAT, a new malware family with advanced capabilities. The post New ‘ResolverRAT’ Targeting Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to

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Malicious NPM Packages Target Cryptocurrency, PayPal Users

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Malicious NPM Packages Target Cryptocurrency, PayPal Users 2025-04-14 at 13:45 By Ionut Arghire Threat actors are publishing malicious NPM packages to steal PayPal credentials and hijack cryptocurrency transfers. The post Malicious NPM Packages Target Cryptocurrency, PayPal Users appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to this headline:

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In Other News: Scattered Spider Still Active, EncryptHub Unmasked, Rydox Extraditions

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In Other News: Scattered Spider Still Active, EncryptHub Unmasked, Rydox Extraditions 2025-04-11 at 15:17 By SecurityWeek News Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Scattered Spider still active despite arrests, hacker known as EncryptHub unmasked, Rydox admins extradited to US. The post In Other News: Scattered Spider Still Active, EncryptHub Unmasked, Rydox Extraditions

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Ransomware groups push negotiations to new levels of uncertainty

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Ransomware groups push negotiations to new levels of uncertainty 2025-04-11 at 08:18 By Help Net Security Ransomware attacks increased by nearly 20% in 2024, and the severity rose by 13%, according to At-Bay. The blast radius of ransomware continues to grow as businesses impacted by attacks on vendors and partners increased 43%, while the average

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From likes to leaks: How social media presence impacts corporate security

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From likes to leaks: How social media presence impacts corporate security 2025-04-10 at 08:07 By Help Net Security From a psychological standpoint, we all crave attention, and likes and comments fuel that need, encouraging us to share even more on social media. In the corporate world, this risk grows exponentially because it’s not just our

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AI Now Outsmarts Humans in Spear Phishing, Analysis Shows

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AI Now Outsmarts Humans in Spear Phishing, Analysis Shows 2025-04-09 at 20:02 By Kevin Townsend Agentic AI has improved spear phishing effectiveness by 55% since 2023, research shows. The post AI Now Outsmarts Humans in Spear Phishing, Analysis Shows appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to

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Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty

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Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty 2025-04-07 at 13:19 By Eduard Kovacs A 20-year-old arrested last year and charged alongside others believed to be members of Scattered Spider has pleaded guilty. The post Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to

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Phishers are increasingly impersonating electronic toll collection companies

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Phishers are increasingly impersonating electronic toll collection companies 2025-04-03 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz Steam was the most imitated brands by phishers in the first quarter of 2025, followed by Microsoft and Facebook/Meta, Guardio researchers have revealed. “Historically, the #1 spot has been dominated by the usual suspects – big tech companies like Meta, Microsoft,

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Beware fake AutoCAD, SketchUp sites dropping malware

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Beware fake AutoCAD, SketchUp sites dropping malware 2025-04-03 at 09:47 By Help Net Security Malware peddlers are saddling users with the TookPS downloader and the Lapmon and TeviRat backdoors via malicious sites that mimic official ones and ostensibly offer legitimate software for download, Kaspersky researchers have warned. Malicious websites (Source: Kaspersky) The list of impersonated

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Cybercriminals exfiltrate data in just three days

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Cybercriminals exfiltrate data in just three days 2025-04-03 at 08:14 By Industry News In 56% of Sophos managed detection and response (MDR) and incident response (IR) cases, attackers gained initial access to networks by exploiting external remote services, including edge devices such as firewalls and VPNs, and by leveraging valid accounts. Compromised credentials remain the

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Open-source malware doubles, data exfiltration attacks dominate

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Open-source malware doubles, data exfiltration attacks dominate 2025-04-03 at 07:02 By Help Net Security There’s been a notable shift in the types of threats targeting software developers, with a total of 17,954 open source malware packages identified in Q1 2025, according to Sonatype. Quarterly breakdown (Source: Sonatype) The Q1 figure represents a significant decrease from

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