Phake phishing: Phundamental or pholly?
Debates over the effectiveness of phishing simulations are widespread. Sophos X-Ops looks at the arguments for and against – and our own phishing philosophy
The latest version of the Banshee macOS information stealer no longer checks if the infected systems have the Russian language installed. The post Banshee macOS Malware Expands Targeting appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The April 2025 cyber attacks targeting U.K. retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been classified as a “single combined cyber event.” That’s according to an assessment from the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a U.K.-based independent, non-profit body set up by the insurance industry to categorize major cyber events. “Given that one threat actor claimed…
Apple has been fined €98.6 million ($116 million) by Italy’s antitrust authority after finding that the company’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework restricted App Store competition. The Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, or AGCM) said the company’s “absolute dominant position” in app distribution allowed it to “unilaterally impose”
The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from legitimate infrastructure used for software updates to attacker-controlled infrastructure
While AI tools can enable employees to be innovative and productive, significant data privacy risks can stem from their usage. The post Beware Of Shadow AI – Shadow IT’s Less Well-Known Brother appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The threat actors behind a large-scale, ongoing smishing campaign have been attributed to more than 194,000 malicious domains since January 1, 2024, targeting a broad range of services across the world, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. “Although these domains are registered through a Hong Kong-based registrar and use Chinese nameservers,…