Jai Vijayan reports: In 2025, cybercriminals needed less time to move from break-in to lateral movement across a network than it takes to watch a typical sitcom. An analysis by CrowdStrike of threat activity last year found attackers took just 29 minutes on average to pivot to other systems after gaining an initial foothold in…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in Planet Technology’s WGS-804HPT industrial switches that could be chained to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution on susceptible devices. “These switches are widely used in building and home automation systems for a variety of networking applications,” Claroty’s Tomer Goldschmidt said in a Thursday report. “An attacker
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued an advisory warning of cyber attacks mounted by the China-linked Salt Typhoon actors to breach major global telecommunications providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign. The attackers exploited a critical Cisco IOS XE software (CVE-2023-20198, CVSS score: 10.0)…
Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to use large language models (LLMs) to generate new variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale in a manner that can better evade detection. “Although LLMs struggle to create malware from scratch, criminals can easily use them to rewrite or obfuscate existing malware, making it harder to detect,”…
The Need For Unified Security Google Workspace is where teams collaborate, share ideas, and get work done. But while it makes work easier, it also creates new security challenges. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving, finding ways to exploit misconfigurations, steal sensitive data, and hijack user accounts. Many organizations try to secure their environment by piecing together…
Japan Airlines was hit by a cyberattack, causing delays to more than 20 domestic flights, but there was no threat to flight safety. The post Japan Airlines Was Hit by a Cyberattack, Delaying Flights During the Year-End Holiday Season appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sophos X-Ops uncovers a recent campaign from an Android RAT first seen in 2019 – now infecting users in Taiwan
