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Ontinue report ransomware vishing

Ransomware and Vishing Surge as Attackers Pivot Strategies

Threats are always changing and growing as attackers attempt to launch more sophisticated and successful attacks, forcing cybersecurity professionals to constantly adapt and evolve to defend against these attacks. Security service provider Ontinue’s 2H 2024…

Microsoft AI agents cybersecurity

Microsoft Bets on AI Agents to Combat Evolving Cyber Threats

Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, with bad actors always looking for the best and newest practices and technologies to launch more attacks with higher success rates and larger payouts. The AI boom in recent years…

XCSSET Xcode malware

XCSSET: A New Variant That Targets Developers

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of XCSSET, a highly sophisticated modular macOS malware variant that injects malicious code into Xcode projects. Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS, which developers…

X Twitter DDoS Elon Musk

X Marks the Target for Massive DDoS Attack

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” was posted by Elon Musk on March 10, 2025. The attack had multiple waves as reported by Downdetector. The attack focused on U.S. and U.K. users.…

crypto agility quantum cryptography

Quantum Threats Are Closer Than You Think

The era of commercially available quantum computers capable of compromising today’s cryptography may not be fully upon us yet, but it is coming on faster than many believe. It is crucial for organizations to consider…

Volt Typhoon Chinese advanced persistent threat

How Volt Typhoon Infiltrated a Small US Power Grid

The threat group Volt Typhoon (also known as VOLTZITE) has been known to be active since 2021, representing an advanced persistent threat (APT) primarily to organizations in the United States. Alleged to be a Chinese…

AI malicious code DeepSeek Tenable

Tenable Reveals How DeepSeek Can Write Keyloggers and Ransomware (With a Little Help)

Tenable’s latest research highlights a growing concern in cybersecurity: the role of AI in developing malicious code. Researchers tested DeepSeek, a generative AI model, to see whether it could create malware. With the right prompts—specifically…

military defense infostealers

U.S. Military and Defense Contractors Facing Unprecedented Cybersecurity Breach

A significant number of data breaches occur when cybercriminals walk through the “front door” using stolen credentials. According to a study from Hudson Rock, the login information is acquired using infostealer malware. Cybercriminals package the…

OpenAI Operator AI agent cyber exploit

AI Agents on Autopilot: OpenAI’s Operator Can Be Exploited for Cyberattacks

Artificial intelligence tools have been at the forefront of tech news lately, with organizations and individuals increasingly using them for a wide range of purposes. This surge in popularity has both been stoked by and…

Microsoft 365 infostealer botnet

How a 130,000-Device Botnet Is Quietly Cracking Microsoft 365 Accounts

A recently discovered botnet consisting of more than 130,000 compromised devices is now targeting Microsoft 365 accounts with advanced password-spraying tactics capable of evading traditional detection methods. Password-spraying is a brute-force cyber-attack where hackers try…

March Madness AI hackers cyber threat

March Madness, Cyber Sadness: How AI-Powered Hackers Are Scoring Big Against Businesses

With the start of the NCAA March Madness Tournament season, the social and cultural phenomenon has a presence in many workplaces. Up to 80 million tournament brackets are filled out each year, and many employees…

Broadcom VMware vulnerability

Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in VMware Products

Global tech leader Broadcom published a critical security advisory on March 4th, 2025, regarding three new zero-day vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and other products. With varying levels of severity, the vulnerabilities can enable…

Go ecosystem malware typosquatting

Typosquatting in the Go Ecosystem

Software supply chain attacks have become a growing concern for developers and security teams alike. Instead of targeting individual systems, attackers compromise widely used components, allowing them to spread malware through trusted software channels. One…

Salt Typhoon

Salt Typhoon Exploits Seven-Year-Old Flaw to Breach Major U.S. Telecoms

In late 2024, it was confirmed that a cyber espionage campaign perpetrated by a highly sophisticated Chinese-based threat actor infiltrated at least eight major telecommunications companies. The attacks gained access to Call Detail Records used…

Silk Typhoon China cloud apps

Silk Typhoon Targets IT Infrastructure and Cloud Apps

The threat group known as Silk Typhoon has been active since the 2021 exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers. The group has a diverse attack history, partly as a result of their opportunistic…

Russia Hegseth cyber operations

A Precarious Pause: U.S. Halts Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia

In a major policy shift, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed U.S. Cyber Command to cease offensive cyber operations targeting Russia. Framed as a diplomatic effort during ongoing negotiations over the Ukraine conflict, this…

Ghost ransomware

Ghost Ransomware Strikes Globally

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning of a…

open source OSSRA

Report Reveals Open Source Security Crisis

Open-source software (OSS) has become the backbone of modern applications, driving innovation across industries from finance to manufacturing. However, the latest Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report from Black Duck reveals a sobering…

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