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Malware, being one of the most prevalent and pervasive initial threat vectors, continues to adapt and become more sophisticated, according to OPSWAT. Crucial role of threat intelligence. Threat actors leverage malware as an initial foothold to infiltrate targeted infrastructures and move laterally to gain long-term access, cause damage, or exfiltrate data and trade secrets.
As attackers focus on political ends, big payouts, threat hunters need to focus on identity intrusions, access merchants and tactics enabling fast lateral movement. Adversary breakout time - the time it takes a threat actor to zipline from the initial point of entry into a network - hit an average all-time low of 79 minutes, down from 84 minutes last year, with the fastest breakout of the year coming in at a record of seven minutes.
Infostealer malware has risen to prominence as one of the most significant vectors of cybercrime over the past three years. Learn from Flare about information stealer logs and their role in the...
In this Help Net Security interview, we delve into the world of cybersecurity with Michael Adams, the CISO at Zoom. In addition to adopting appropriate technologies, it's important to provide a comprehensive security training program.
Security researchers are warning of increased phishing activity that abuses Google Accelerated Mobile Pages to bypass email security measures and get to inboxes of enterprise employees. Google AMP is an open-source HTML framework co-developed by Google and 30 partners to make web content load faster on mobile devices.
In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google's review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. The problem is considerable in the Android ecosystem, since Google's Android security team often quickly pushes out patches for zero-days but downstream original equipment manufacturers may take a while to release a fix for users to apply.
As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who...
Security experts from HackerOne and beyond weigh in on malicious prompt engineering and other attacks that could strike through LLMs. HackerOne, a security platform and hacker community forum, hosted a roundtable on Thursday, July 27, about the way generative artificial intelligence will change the practice of cybersecurity. How threat actors take advantage of generative AI. "We have to remember that systems like GPT models don't create new things - what they do is reorient stuff that already exists stuff it's already been trained on," said Klondike.
The threat actors linked to the malware loader known as IcedID have made updates to the BackConnect module that's used for post-compromise activity on hacked systems, new findings from Team Cymru reveal. "For the past several months, BackConnect traffic caused by IcedID was easy to detect because it occurred over TCP port 8080," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in late May 2023.
The ongoing banking and economic turmoil has opened the floodgates to fraudsters. In this Help Net Security video, ex-British Intelligence officer Alex Beavan, Head of Ethics and Anti-Corruption...