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Even Great Companies Get Breached — Find Out Why and How to Stop It
Even the best companies with the most advanced tools can still get hacked. It’s a frustrating reality: you’ve invested in the right solutions, trained your team, and strengthened your defenses. But breaches still happen. So, what’s going wrong? The truth is, that attackers are constantly finding new ways to slip through cracks that often go…
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Bitter APT Targets Turkish Defense Sector with WmRAT and MiyaRAT Malware
A suspected South Asian cyber espionage threat group known as Bitter targeted a Turkish defense sector organization in November 2024 to deliver two C++-malware families tracked as WmRAT and MiyaRAT. “The attack chain used alternate data streams in a RAR archive to deliver a shortcut (LNK) file that created a scheduled task on the target…
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5 Practical Techniques for Effective Cyber Threat Hunting
Addressing cyber threats before they have a chance to strike or inflict serious damage is by far the best security approach any company can embrace. Achieving this takes a lot of research and proactive threat hunting. The problem here is that it is easy to get stuck in endless arrays of data and end up…
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Hackers Exploit Webview2 to Deploy CoinLurker Malware and Evade Security Detection
Bogus software update lures are being used by threat actors to deliver a new stealer malware called CoinLurker. “Written in Go, CoinLurker employs cutting-edge obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques, making it a highly effective tool in modern cyber attacks,” Morphisec researcher Nadav Lorber said in a technical report published Monday. The attacks make use of fake…
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The Mask APT Resurfaces with Sophisticated Multi-Platform Malware Arsenal
A little-known cyber espionage actor known as The Mask has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting an unnamed organization in Latin America twice in 2019 and 2022. “The Mask APT is a legendary threat actor that has been performing highly sophisticated attacks since at least 2007,” Kaspersky researchers Georgy Kucherin and Marc…
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DeceptionAds Delivers 1M+ Daily Impressions via 3,000 Sites, Fake CAPTCHA Pages
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented aspect associated with ClickFix-style attacks that hinge on taking advantage of a single ad network service as part of a malvertising-driven information stealer campaign dubbed DeceptionAds. “Entirely reliant on a single ad network for propagation, this campaign showcases the core mechanisms of malvertising — delivering over
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NoviSpy Spyware Installed on Journalist’s Phone After Unlocking It With Cellebrite Tool
A Serbian journalist had his phone first unlocked by a Cellebrite tool and subsequently compromised by a previously undocumented spyware codenamed NoviSpy, according to a new report published by Amnesty International. “NoviSpy allows for capturing sensitive personal data from a target’s phone after infection and provides the ability to turn on the phone’s microphone or…
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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips
This past week has been packed with unsettling developments in the world of cybersecurity. From silent but serious attacks on popular business tools to unexpected flaws lurking in everyday devices, there’s a lot that might have flown under your radar. Attackers are adapting old tricks, uncovering new ones, and targeting systems both large and small.…
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Data Governance in DevOps: Ensuring Compliance in the AI Era
With the evolution of modern software development, CI/CD pipeline governance has emerged as a critical factor in maintaining both agility and compliance. As we enter the age of artificial intelligence (AI), the importance of robust pipeline governance has only intensified. With that said, we’ll explore the concept of CI/CD pipeline governance and why it’s vital,…
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New Investment Scam Leverages AI, Social Media Ads to Target Victims Worldwide
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new kind of investment scam that leverages a combination of social media malvertising, company-branded posts, and artificial intelligence (AI) powered video testimonials featuring famous personalities, ultimately leading to financial and data loss. “The main goal of the fraudsters is to lead victims to phishing websites and forms that…
