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With a lack of cybersecurity awareness training resources for all employees, organizations are more susceptible to being breached or falling short when it comes to preventing threats.

A new variant of the sophisticated attacker tool gives cybercriminals even more control over victim devices to conduct various malicious activities, including fraud and cyber espionage.

Outages are inevitable. Our focus should be on minimizing their scope, addressing underlying causes, and understanding that protecting systems is about keeping bad actors out while maintaining stability and reliability.

Using a malicious Chrome extension, researchers showed how an attacker could use a now-fixed bug to inject custom code into a victim's Opera browser to exploit special and powerful APIs, used by developers and typically saved for only the most trusted sites.

Now a zero-day, the vulnerability enables NTLM hash theft, an issue that Microsoft has already fixed twice before.

A professional-grade tool set, appropriately dubbed "CloudScout," is infiltrating cloud apps like Microsoft Outlook and Google Drive, targeting sensitive info for exfiltration.

In the latest attack against ISPs, second-largest French provider Free fell victim to unknown cyberattackers who attempted to sell the compromised data it stole from the company on an underground cybercrime forum.

A collaboration with the FBI and law-enforcement agencies in Europe, the UK, and Australia, Operation Magnus has seized servers and source code related to the two malware families, which have stolen data from millions of victims worldwide.

Great CISOs are in short supply, so choose wisely. Here are five ways to make sure you've made the right pick.

Sophos CEO Joe Levy says the $859 million deal to acquire SecureWorks from majority owner Dell Technologies will put the Taegis platform — with network detection and response, vulnerability detection and response, and identity threat detection and response capabilities — at the core.

Windows 11 machines remain open to downgrade attacks, where attackers can abuse the Windows Update process to revive a patched driver signature enforcement (DSE) bypass.

The nation leads in the number of capture-the-flag tournaments sponsored by government and industry — a strategy from which Western nations could learn.

Delta argues that it lost hundreds of million of dollars in downtime and other costs in the aftermath of the incident, while CrowdStrike says it isn't liable for more than $10 million.

Posing as an application used to locate Ukrainian military recruiters, a Kremlin-backed hacking initiative delivers malware, along with disinformation designed to undermine sign-ups for soldiers in the war against Russia.

LLMs tend to miss the forest for the trees, understanding specific instructions but not their broader context. Bad actors can take advantage of this myopia to get them to do malicious things, with a new prompt-injection technique.

Relying on EOL software leaves critical systems exposed — making it a problem no business can afford to ignore.