A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices,
A couple-dozen changes to SBOM fields will make them more comprehensive, but some argue that the framework lacks real risk-management improvements.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing message containing a link to an encrypted archive, which holds a Windows Shortcut (LNK). Executing the file triggers a multi-stage chain that
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in…
The most valuable move any security team can make is building a certificate and key inventory.
When a fraudulent transaction occurs, law enforcement agencies must work quickly to halt payments before cybercriminals cash out.
The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) launches Aug. 1 and hundreds of thousands of California residents already registered. Other states could follow if the process goes smoothly.
The organization behind Team USA’s Olympic/Paralympic fencing teams has automated identity verification to handle growing membership, cutting manual review time while ensuring athletes compete in the correct categories.
Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. Both versions were released last month. In its latest patch for Chrome 151, released Wednesday, the tech giant resolved 370 flaws, out…
Device code phishing – the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens – has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so on, the device authorization login flow has been adopted by a wide…