Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends to Expect in 2025 - The Hacker News
Dec 23, 2024 · The 2025 cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex, driven by sophisticated cyber threats, increased regulation, and rapidly evolving technology. In 2025, organizations will be challenged with protecting sensitive information for their customers while continuing to provide seamless and easy ...
Hackers Exploiting Critical Fortinet EMS Vulnerability to Deploy …
Dec 20, 2024 · "The targeted company employs this technology to allow employees to download specific policies to their corporate devices, granting them secure access to the Fortinet VPN," it said in a Thursday analysis.. Further analysis of the incident found that the threat actors took advantage of CVE-2023-48788 as an initial access vector, subsequently dropping a ScreenConnect executable to obtain remote ...
CISA Adds Critical Flaw in BeyondTrust Software to Exploited ...
Dec 20, 2024 · The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12356 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a command injection flaw that ...
U.S. Judge Rules Against NSO Group in WhatsApp Pegasus …
Dec 23, 2024 · However, evidence to the contrary has established that there have been several instances of Pegasus being misused by authoritarian regimes and other governments across the world to target activists, politicians, and journalists.. Apple, which filed a similar lawsuit against NSO Group in November 2021, has since sought to voluntarily dismiss the case on grounds that the market for commercial ...
Attackers Exploit Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk to Deploy …
Dec 17, 2024 · A new social engineering campaign has leveraged Microsoft Teams as a way to facilitate the deployment of a known malware called DarkGate. "An attacker used social engineering via a Microsoft Teams call to impersonate a user's client and gain remote access to their system," Trend Micro researchers Catherine …
390,000+ WordPress Credentials Stolen via Malicious GitHub …
In recent years, there has emerged a trend where attackers attempt to capitalize on vulnerability disclosures to create GitHub repositories using phony profiles that claim to host PoCs for the flaws but actually are engineered to conduct data theft and even demand payment in exchange for the exploit.. The campaigns undertaken by MUT-1244 not only involve making use of …
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Researchers Discover "Bootkitty" – First UEFI Bootkit Targeting …
Nov 27, 2024 · Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on what has been described as the first Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit designed for Linux systems. Dubbed Bootkitty by its creators who go by the name BlackCat, the bootkit is assessed to be a proof-of-concept (PoC) and there is no evidence that it has been put to use in real-world attacks.
Fortinet Warns of Critical FortiWLM Flaw That Could Lead to …
Dec 19, 2024 · Fortinet has issued an advisory for a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Wireless LAN Manager (FortiWLM) that could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34990, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of a maximum of 10.0. It was originally fixed by Fortinet back on August 18, 2023, but without a CVE designation.
⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips
Dec 23, 2024 · The online world never takes a break, and this week shows why. From ransomware creators being caught to hackers backed by governments trying new tricks, the message is clear: cybercriminals are always changing how they attack, and we need to keep up. Hackers are using everyday tools in harmful ways ...