Security News

Hidden Threats: How Microsoft 365 Backups Store Risks for Future Attacks
2025-03-24 14:01

Acronis Threat Research found 2M+ malicious URLs & 5,000+ malware instances in Microsoft 365 backup data—demonstrating how built-in security isn't always enough. Don't let threats persist in your...

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: GitHub Supply Chain Attack, AI Malware, BYOVD Tactics, and More
2025-03-24 11:35

A quiet tweak in a popular open-source tool opened the door to a supply chain breach—what started as a targeted attack quickly spiraled, exposing secrets across countless projects. That wasn’t the...

Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories' CI/CD Secrets Exposed
2025-03-23 05:26

The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action "tj-actions/changed-files" started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase's open-source projects, before evolving into something...

Ongoing Cyber Attacks Exploit Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility
2025-03-21 05:09

Two now-patched security flaws impacting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility are seeing active exploitation attempts, according to SANS Internet Storm Center. The two critical-rated vulnerabilities in...

CISA tags NAKIVO backup flaw as actively exploited in attacks
2025-03-20 21:13

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their networks against attacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in NAKIVO's Backup & Replication software. [...]

Critical Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaws now exploited in attacks
2025-03-20 19:05

Attackers have started targeting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) instances unpatched against a vulnerability exposing a built-in backdoor admin account. [...]

Critical GitHub Attack
2025-03-20 15:14

This is serious: A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack, which...

GitHub Action supply chain attack exposed secrets in 218 repos
2025-03-20 14:34

The compromise of GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has impacted only a small percentage of the 23,000 projects using it, with it estimated that only 218 repositories exposed secrets due to...

TechRepublic EXCLUSIVE: New Ransomware Attacks are Getting More Personal as Hackers ‘Apply Psychological Pressure”
2025-03-19 21:28

Ransomware attackers know where your kids go to school and they want you to know it, according to professional negotiators at Sygnia.

Ukrainian military targeted in new Signal spear-phishing attacks
2025-03-19 20:30

Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning about highly targeted attacks employing compromised Signal accounts to send malware to employees of defense industry firms and...