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The long-active, India-sponsored cyber-threat group targeted multiple entities across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and even Europe in a recent attack wave that demonstrated the use of a previously unknown post-exploit tool called StealerBot.

The thieves modify transaction messages to initiate unauthorized withdrawals, even when there are insufficient funds.

The FHE Technical Consortium for Hardware (FHETCH) brings together developers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers to collaborate on technical standards necessary to develop commercial fully homomorphic encryption solutions and lower adoption barriers.

Organizations should be on high alert until next month's US presidential election to ensure the integrity of the voting process, researchers warn.

The inherent intelligence of large language models gives them unprecedented capabilities like no other enterprise tool before.

WordPress moves could have security implications for sites using Advanced Custom Fields plug-in.

A heated regulatory landscape, uncertainty over AI use, and how it all ties back to cybersecurity means CISOs have to add privacy to their portfolios.

Use SSO, don't use SSO. Have MFA, don't have MFA. An analysis of a snapshot of organizations using Push Security's platform finds that 99% of accounts are susceptible to phishing attacks.

With cybercriminal gangs raking in at least $18 billion regionally — and much more globally — law enforcement and policymakers are struggling to keep up as the syndicates innovate and entrench themselves in national economies.

Suspected nation-state actors are spotted stringing together three different zero-days in the Ivanti Cloud Services Application to gain persistent access to a targeted system.

The gaming company reports that the server has been rebuilt after the leak, but has not confirmed if its insider video game data was leaked.

Organizations are grappling with the risks of having outdated hardware handling core workloads, mission-critical applications no one knows how to update or maintain, and systems that IT and security teams don't know about.

Education, including K-12 schools and universities, has become the third most targeted sector due to the high variety of sensitive data it stores in its databases.

Attackers can introduce a malicious document in systems such as Microsoft 365 Copilot to confuse the system, potentially leading to widespread misinformation and compromised decision-making processes.

By combining human and nonhuman identity management in one solution, Flock Safety is helping law enforcement solve an impressive number of criminal cases every day.

Ultimately, the goal of creating a trusted environment around all digital assets and devices is about modernizing the way you do business.

Companies are putting "AI" in just about all of their products, which opens up new security holes. LLM SecOps and ML SecOps are becoming must-have skills.

Threat detection tools yield too many false positives, security pros say, leading to burnout and resentment.