Security News

New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data
2024-08-15 06:45

A previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data. The attack campaign, detected by NSFOCUS on July 1, 2024, leveraged spear-phishing emails to single out Azerbaijani and Israeli diplomats.

IntelOwl: Open-source threat intelligence management
2024-08-14 04:30

IntelOwl is an open-source solution designed for large-scale threat intelligence management. It integrates numerous online analyzers and advanced malware analysis tools, providing comprehensive...

Current attacks, targets, and other threat landscape trends
2024-08-14 03:30

In this Help Net Security video, Kendall McKay, Strategic Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence at Cisco Talos, discusses the trends that Cisco Talos incident response observed in incident response...

Criminal IP and Maltego Join Forces for Enhanced Cyber Threat Search
2024-08-12 14:02

Criminal IP, a rapidly growing Cyber Threat Intelligence search engine developed by AI SPERA, recently completed its technology integration with Maltego, a global all-in-one investigation platform that specializes in visualized analysis of combined cyber data. This partnership embeds Criminal IP's extensive database on malicious IPs, domains, and CVEs into Maltego's unified user interface and adds Criminal IP to Maltego's marketplace, Transform Hub.

Understanding escalating cyber threats
2024-08-09 15:10

Webinar As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, staying informed is crucial for IT professionals. Cloudflare's 2024 Global Security Brief delves into the most pressing issues facing the cybersecurity landscape today.

AI security 2024: Key insights for staying ahead of threats
2024-08-08 04:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Kojin Oshiba, co-founder of Robust Intelligence, discusses his journey from academic research to addressing AI security challenges in the industry. What motivated you to specialize in the security aspects of AI systems?

Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats
2024-08-07 01:50

Microsoft has labelled Delta Air Lines' accusations it's partly to blame for the outages caused by CrowdStrike's buggy software "False" and "Misleading" - and insulted the state of the carrier's IT infrastructure. Delta, which has hired a law firm and threatened to sue Microsoft and CrowdStrike over the July 19 meltdown, previously claimed recovering from the BSOD blitz cost it $500 million.

Researchers unearth MotW bypass technique used by threat actors for years
2024-08-06 11:28

Threat actors have been abusing a bug in how Windows handles LNK files with non-standard target paths and internal structures to prevent in-built protections from stopping malicious payloads and trick users into running them. If the file is not listed, SmartScreen will prevent the file from being executed and show a warning.

Suspicious Minds: Insider Threats in The SaaS World
2024-08-06 11:17

According to CSA research, 26% of companies who reported a SaaS security incident were struck by an insider. Learn how to secure your entire SaaS stack from both internal and external threats.

CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help'
2024-08-05 12:32

"Delta's public threat of litigation distracts from this work and has contributed to a misleading narrative that CrowdStrike is responsible for Delta's IT decisions and response to the outage," the letter reads. "Should Delta pursue this path, Delta will have to explain to the public, its shareholders, and ultimately a jury why CrowdStrike took responsibility for its actions - swiftly, transparently, and constructively - while Delta did not."