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US Insurance Industry Warned of Scattered Spider Attacks

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US Insurance Industry Warned of Scattered Spider Attacks 2025-06-17 at 15:20 By Eduard Kovacs Google is warning insurance companies that Scattered Spider appears to have shifted its focus from the retail sector. The post US Insurance Industry Warned of Scattered Spider Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal Draws DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny: Report

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Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal Draws DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny: Report 2025-06-16 at 18:20 By SecurityWeek News According to reports, the US Department of Justice will assess whether the deal would harm competition in the cybersecurity market. The post Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal Draws DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny: Report appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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Vietnamese Hackers Distribute Malware via Fake AI-Themed Websites

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Vietnamese Hackers Distribute Malware via Fake AI-Themed Websites 2025-05-28 at 16:29 By Ionut Arghire Mandiant warns that a Vietnamese hacking group tracked as UNC6032 is distributing malware via fake AI video generator websites. The post Vietnamese Hackers Distribute Malware via Fake AI-Themed Websites appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Compromised SAP NetWeaver instances are ushering in opportunistic threat actors

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Compromised SAP NetWeaver instances are ushering in opportunistic threat actors 2025-05-12 at 16:07 By Zeljka Zorz A second wave of attacks against the hundreds of SAP NetWeaver platforms compromised via CVE-2025-31324 is underway. “[The] attacks [are] staged by follow-on, opportunistic threat actors who are leveraging previously established webshells (from the first zero-day attack) on vulnerable

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M-Trends 2025: State-Sponsored IT Workers Emerge as Global Threat

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M-Trends 2025: State-Sponsored IT Workers Emerge as Global Threat 2025-04-25 at 16:32 By Kevin Townsend Mandiant’s latest threat report shows how attackers adapt faster than defenses, shifting strategies toward credential theft and insider threats. The post M-Trends 2025: State-Sponsored IT Workers Emerge as Global Threat appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Understanding 2024 cyber attack trends

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Understanding 2024 cyber attack trends 2025-04-24 at 13:04 By Zeljka Zorz Mandiant has released the M-Trends 2025 report, which outlines global cyber attack trends based on their own incident response engagements from 2024. Key trends and insights In 2024, Mandiant handled more incidents in the financial sector than in any other industry: 17.4%. Other popular

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Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle

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Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle 2025-04-11 at 21:05 By Ryan Naraine The CVE-2025-22457 has already been exploited by a China-nexus hacking gang notorious for breaking into edge network devices. The post Rapid7 Reveals RCE Path in Ivanti VPN Appliance After Silent Patch Debacle appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Google Targets SOC Overload With Automated AI Alert and Malware Analysis Tools

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Google Targets SOC Overload With Automated AI Alert and Malware Analysis Tools 2025-04-09 at 20:50 By Ryan Naraine Google plans to unleash automated AI agents into overtaxed SOCs to reduce the manual workload for cybersecurity investigators. The post Google Targets SOC Overload With Automated AI Alert and Malware Analysis Tools appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows

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Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows 2025-04-07 at 18:06 By Ryan Naraine Experimental Sec-Gemini v1 touts a combination of Google’s Gemini LLM capabilities with real-time security data and tooling from Mandiant. The post Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)

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Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457) 2025-04-03 at 21:01 By Zeljka Zorz A suspected Chinese APT group has exploited CVE-2025-22457 – a buffer overflow bug that was previously thought not to be exploitable – to compromise appliances running Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) 22.7R2.5 or earlier or Pulse Connect Secure 9.1x. The vulnerability

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Chinese APT Pounces on Misdiagnosed RCE in Ivanti VPN Appliances

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Chinese APT Pounces on Misdiagnosed RCE in Ivanti VPN Appliances 2025-04-03 at 20:17 By Ryan Naraine Ivanti misdiagnoses a remote code execution vulnerability and Mandiant reports that Chinese hackers are launching in-the-wild exploits. The post Chinese APT Pounces on Misdiagnosed RCE in Ivanti VPN Appliances appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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CISA reveals new malware variant used on compromised Ivanti Connect Secure devices

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CISA reveals new malware variant used on compromised Ivanti Connect Secure devices 2025-03-31 at 16:12 By Zeljka Zorz CISA has released indicators of compromise, detection signatures, and updated mitigation advice for rooting out a newly identified malware variant used by the attackers who breached Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances in December 2024 by exploiting the

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Mandiant Uncovers Custom Backdoors on End-of-Life Juniper Routers

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Mandiant Uncovers Custom Backdoors on End-of-Life Juniper Routers 2025-03-12 at 18:45 By Ryan Naraine China-nexus cyberespionage group caught planting custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks Junos OS routers. The post Mandiant Uncovers Custom Backdoors on End-of-Life Juniper Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to this

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How Russian Hackers Are Exploiting Signal ‘Linked Devices’ Feature for Real-Time Spying

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How Russian Hackers Are Exploiting Signal ‘Linked Devices’ Feature for Real-Time Spying 2025-02-19 at 13:04 By Ryan Naraine Mandiant warns that multiple Russian APTs are abusing a nifty Signal Messenger feature to surreptitiously spy on encrypted conversations. The post How Russian Hackers Are Exploiting Signal ‘Linked Devices’ Feature for Real-Time Spying appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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UK domain registry Nominet breached via Ivanti zero-day

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UK domain registry Nominet breached via Ivanti zero-day 2025-01-13 at 22:17 By Zeljka Zorz The number of internet-facing Ivanti Connect Secure instances vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-0282 has fallen from 2,048 to 800 in the last four days, the Shadowserver Foundation shared today. In the meantime, UK domain registry Nominet became the first publicly known

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282)

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282) 2025-01-09 at 14:23 By Zeljka Zorz The zero-day attacks leveraging the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-0282) made public on Wednesday were first spotted in mid-December 2024, Mandiant researchers have shared. It’s still impossible to say whether they were mounted by a single threat actor, but the

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2025-0282)

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2025-0282) 2025-01-08 at 21:49 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has fixed two vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA gateways, one of which (CVE-2025-0282) has been exploited as a zero-day by attackers to compromise Connect Secure VPN appliances. About CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283 Both are stack-based buffer overflow

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Defenders must adapt to shrinking exploitation timelines

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Defenders must adapt to shrinking exploitation timelines 2024-10-16 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz A new report from Mandiant reveals that the average time-to-exploit vulnerabilities before or after a patch is released has plunged to just five days in 2023, down from 32 days in 2021 in 2022. One reason for this is the fact that,

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Private US companies targeted by Stonefly APT

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Private US companies targeted by Stonefly APT 2024-10-03 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz Undeterred by the indictment issued against one of its alleged members, North Korean APT group Stonefly (aka APT45) continues to target companies in the US, Symantec threat analysts warned. About Stonefly Also known as Andariel and OnyxFleet, Stonefly has been linked to

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North Korea Hackers Linked to Breach of German Missile Manufacturer

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North Korea Hackers Linked to Breach of German Missile Manufacturer 2024-09-30 at 20:46 By Ryan Naraine The targeting of Diehl Defence is significant because the company specializes in the production of missiles and ammunition. The post North Korea Hackers Linked to Breach of German Missile Manufacturer appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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