Opportunistic threat actors targeted Portuguese and Spanish speakers by spoofing Portugal’s national airline in a campaign offering compensation for delayed or disrupted flights.
Автор: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Windows Backdoor Targets Members of Exiled Uyghur Community
A spear-phishing campaign sent Trojanized versions of legitimate word-processing software to members of the World Uyghur Congress as part of China’s continued cyber-espionage activity against the ethnic minority.
AI, Automation, and Dark Web Fuel Evolving Threat Landscape
Attackers are leveraging the benefits of new technology and the availability of commodity tools, credentials, and other resources to develop sophisticated attacks more quickly than ever, putting defenders on their heels.
FBI: Cybercrime Losses Rocket to $16.6B in 2024
The losses are 33% higher than the year before, with phishing leading the way as the most-reported cybercrime last year, and ransomware was the top threat to critical infrastructure, according to the FBI Internet Crime Report.
North Korean Operatives Use Deepfakes in IT Job Interviews
Use of synthetic identities by malicious employment candidates is yet another way state-sponsored actors are trying to game the hiring process and infiltrate Western organizations.
‘Cookie Bite’ Entra ID Attack Exposes Microsoft 365
A proof-of-concept (PoC) attack vector exploits two Azure authentication tokens from within a browser, giving threat actors persistent access to key cloud services, including Microsoft 365 applications.
Patch Now: NVDIA Flaws Expose AI Models, Critical Infrastructure
A fix for a critical flaw in a tool allowing organizations to run GPU-accelerated containers released last year did not fully mitigate the issue, spurring the need to patch a secondary flaw to protect organizations that rely on NVIDIA processors for AI…
Cloud, Cryptography Flaws in Mobile Apps Leak Enterprise Data
Cloud misconfigurations and cryptography flaws plague some of the top apps used in work environments, exposing organizations to risk and intrusion.
Wave of Wine-Inspired Phishing Attacks Targets EU Diplomats
Russia-backed APT29’s latest campaign once again uses malicious invites to wine-tasting events as its lure, but this time targets a different set of vintages — errr, victims — and delivers a novel backdoor, GrapeLoader.
China-Linked Hackers Continue Harassing Ethnic Groups With Spyware
Threat actors are trolling online forums and spreading malicious apps to target Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Tibetans, and other individuals aligned with interests that China sees as a threat to its authority.