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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [30 Dec]
2024-12-30 12:15

Every week, the digital world faces new challenges and changes. Hackers are always finding new ways to breach systems, while defenders work hard to keep our data safe. Whether it's a hidden flaw...

Salt Typhoon’s Reach Continues to Grow
2024-12-30 12:05

The US government has identified a ninth telecom that was successfully hacked by Salt Typhoon.

When Good Extensions Go Bad: Takeaways from the Campaign Targeting Browser Extensions
2024-12-30 10:40

News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25...

AT&T and Verizon say networks secure after Salt Typhoon breach
2024-12-30 09:18

AT&T and Verizon confirmed they were breached in a massive Chinese espionage campaign targeting telecom carriers worldwide but said the hackers have now been evicted from their networks. [...]

The sixth sense of cybersecurity: How AI spots threats before they strike
2024-12-30 05:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Vineet Chaku, President of Reaktr.ai, discusses how AI is transforming cybersecurity, particularly in anomaly detection and threat identification. Chaku talks...

reconFTW: Open-source reconnaissance automation
2024-12-30 05:00

reconFTW is an open-source tool that simplifies and automates the reconnaissance process, delivering subdomain enumeration, vulnerability assessment, and gathering intelligence about a target....

Machine identities are the next big target for attackers
2024-12-30 04:30

86% of organizations had a security incident related to their cloud native environment within the last year, according to Venafi. As a result, 53% of organizations had to delay an application...

Cybercriminals tighten their grip on organizations
2024-12-30 04:00

Cybercriminals are using a variety of new methods to target organizations across industries. In this article, we examine the most pressing trends and findings from the 2024 surveys on the growing...

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
2024-12-29 18:20

'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering' Interview Now that criminals have realized there's no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes - it's much...

Dozens of Chrome Extensions Hacked, Exposing Millions of Users to Data Theft
2024-12-29 17:54

A new attack campaign has targeted known Chrome browser extensions, leading to at least 35 extensions being compromised and exposing over 2.6 million users to data exposure and credential theft....