Security News

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...

WhatsApp patched zero-click flaw exploited in Paragon spyware attacks
2025-03-19 16:02

WhatsApp has patched a zero-click, zero-day vulnerability used to install Paragon's Graphite spyware following reports from security researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. [...]

Watch This Webinar to Learn How to Eliminate Identity-Based Attacks—Before They Happen
2025-03-19 11:35

In today’s digital world, security breaches are all too common. Despite the many security tools and training programs available, identity-based attacks—like phishing, adversary-in-the-middle, and...

GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack
2025-03-18 20:03

A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the "reviewdog/action-setup@v1" GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of "tj-actions/changed-files" that...

New ‘Rules File Backdoor’ Attack Lets Hackers Inject Malicious Code via AI Code Editors
2025-03-18 15:43

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new supply chain attack vector dubbed Rules File Backdoor that affects artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editors like GitHub Copilot...

Google acquisition target Wiz links fresh supply chain attack to 23K pwned GitHub repos
2025-03-18 13:02

Ad giant just confirmed its cloudy arm will embrace security shop in $30B deal Wiz security researchers think they've found the root cause of the GitHub supply chain attack that unfolded over the...

How financial institutions can minimize their attack surface
2025-03-18 06:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Sunil Mallik, CISO of Discover Financial Services, discusses cybersecurity threats for financial institutions. He also shares insights on balancing compliance...

BlackLock ransomware claims nearly 50 attacks in two months
2025-03-17 20:40

A ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called 'BlackLock' has emerged as one of the more active ransomware operations of 2025. [...]

Supply chain attack on popular GitHub Action exposes CI/CD secrets
2025-03-17 15:24

A supply chain attack on the widely used 'tj-actions/changed-files' GitHub Action, used by 23,000 repositories, potentially allowed threat actors to steal CI/CD secrets from GitHub Actions build...

Improvements in Brute Force Attacks
2025-03-17 15:09

New paper: “GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA: Brute Force Cryptanalysis of KASUMI, SPECK, and TEA3.” Abstract: Key lengths in symmetric cryptography are...