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Cloud Ransomware Attack: Storm-0501's Azure Tactics and How to Defend

Cloud adoption has transformed how organizations store and secure critical data—but it has also created new opportunities for attackers. A recent campaign by Storm-0501, a financially motivated ransomware group, highlights how devastating a cloud ransomware attack can be when backups and recovery measures fail.

Investigating The Nx "s1ngularity" Attack: What GitGuardian Uncovered And How You Can Stay Safe

Discover the chilling details of the Nx “s1ngularity” supply chain attack. On August 26, 2025, the massively popular Nx npm package, with millions of weekly downloads, was compromised with credential‑harvesting malware.

How Cyberattacks Drive Customers Away (and Damage Trust)

A data breach doesn’t just cost money — it costs customers. Trust is hard to win and easy to lose, and cyberattacks often push loyal customers to walk away. In this short video, we explore how cyber incidents lead to customer churn, the hidden cost of lost trust, and why protecting sensitive data is critical to retaining your customer base. Watch now to learn: How cyberattacks impact customer trust and loyalty.

Software Supply Chain Attacks in 2025: What We Learned from Gartner

Download the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) to learn how to protect your organization. Software supply chain attacks are a top threat to enterprises worldwide. These sophisticated attacks target everything from open-source components and third-party APIs to critical DevOps toolchains. If you’re building software, your supply chain is a prime target.

How Password Managers Protect You From Cyber Attacks

Are your passwords strong enough to keep hackers out? Cybercriminals use attacks like brute force, credential stuffing and keyloggers to steal your sensitive information, but a password manager can stop them in their tracks. In this video, we’ll show you how a password manager protects your account.

Comprehensive cybersecurity guide: Understanding 9+ cyberattack types

Every moment you browse, click, or connect, unseen adversaries are also probing. In today’s hyper-connected world, cyberattacks are no longer fringe threats; they’ve become relentless forces reshaping how we live, work, and protect our most prized digital assets. From stealthy phishing emails that mimic trusted colleagues to sophisticated ransomware schemes locking down entire networks, cyber risks now come in many guises.

MFA Bypass Risks: What You Need to Know in 2025

In Uber’s 2022 breach, attackers didn’t crack encryption or exploit some unknown flaw. They flooded an employee with MFA prompts until they became exhausted. One careless tap, and an entire enterprise was open. The lesson isn’t that MFA failed. It’s that MFA itself can become the exploit surface. From AiTM phishing proxies like EvilGinx to automated OTP interception, attackers treat MFA like DevOps treats CI/CD, i.e, scalable, repeatable, and scriptable.

Mid-Year 2025 Threat Review: Ransomware Statistics and Emerging Attacks

Explore the latest ransomware statistics and emerging cyber threats in Forescout Research – Vedere Labs’ 2025 H1 Threat Review. This video breaks down key findings from January to June 2025, highlighting persistent trends, evolving attack patterns, and the vulnerabilities organizations must address.

How You Can Detect & Respond to Attack Patterns in Threat Feeds with XDR

Organizations gather massive volumes of threat feed data—IP addresses, hashes, domains, tactics—but these often remain siloed or poorly correlated, leaving high-value alerts buried in noise. When those raw indicators live in separate systems, you end up chasing every alert, missing the bigger picture of coordinated attacks. Your team feels stuck in reactive mode, firefighting low priority alerts while real attackers move freely.

Can My Hacked Account Be Recovered?

Few things are as alarming as discovering that one of your accounts has been hacked. Unfortunately, the reality is that recovering a hacked account is often very difficult – sometimes impossible. Here’s why getting your account back can be unlikely, what risks are involved, and how you can protect yourself from attacks.

The MemcycoFM Show: Episode 13 - How 5 of the Biggest Retail ATO Attacks Could Have Been Stopped

Retailers have become prime targets for account takeover. Loyalty balances, stored cards, and digital wallets represent liquid assets, often guarded by weaker controls than financial accounts. Attackers exploit credential reuse, phishing infrastructure, and automation to scale these intrusions. Reported retail ATO cases in the UK rose 96% year over year (Action Fraud, 2023). The following five breaches illustrate how large brands across loyalty, e-commerce, and digital wallets were compromised, and how real-time, in-session defenses could have altered the trajectory.

Defending Against WAF, API, and DDoS Attacks

Defending Against WAF, API, and DDoS Attacks In this video from SourceForge, Carlo Alpuerto of A10 Networks explains the "outside-in" protection philosophy behind ThreatX. He uses the metaphor of a castle wall, stating that the defense focuses on who and what is attacking it, rather than what is behind it. Alpuerto details the flexibility of the A10's ThreatX solution, which can be deployed in various hybrid scenarios, including on-premise physical or virtual environments, as well as different cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks

On July 31, 2025, just as Portugal entered the peak of another intense wildfire season, João Pina, also known as Tomahock, received an automated alert from Cloudflare. His volunteer-run project, fogos.pt, now a trusted source of real-time wildfire information for millions across Portugal, was under attack. One of the several alerts fogos.pt received related to the DDoS attack.

Now Your Data is on the Dark Web - What's Next?

No one sleeps with two eyes shut knowing that the nefarious part of the internet has their data. Whether you're a civilian navigating your lowkey life or a 6+ figure key figure, the tension always manifests itself. If this is you, telling you not to worry could send us through the cloud; just a packed punch. But now that your sensitive data is out there on the dark web, what's the course of action?

Inside the SonicWall SSLVPN Attacks

Inside the SonicWall SSLVPN Attacks In this week’s episode of The 443, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner break down: The recent SonicWall SSLVPN exploits What we know so far and how attackers are getting in The risks for organizations relying on vulnerable VPN gateways Plus: a WinRAR zero-day and a new ChatGPT vulnerability you should know about.

Defending Against WAF, API, and DDoS Attacks

Defending Against WAF, API, and DDoS Attacks In this SourceForge video, Carlo Alpuerto of A10 Networks shares insights on how ThreatX protects WAF, API, DDoS, and bot attacks, processing all the information within a single database. Alpuerto highlights the platform's ability to apply these protections and actionability, showcasing how users can create and manage specific rules. He also notes that the ThreatX security operations center (SOC) team curates these rules daily, utilizing threat intelligence, CVE notifications, and zero-day news to provide comprehensive, up-to-date protection.

Plagued by Cyberattacks: Indian Healthcare Sector in Critical Condition

A recent report states that Indian healthcare institutions face a total of 8,614 cyberattacks every week. That is more than four times the global average and over double the amount faced by any other industry in India. If the feeling was in the air before, the numbers leave no doubt; India’s healthcare sector is an irresistible target for today’s attackers.

Abusing AI interfaces: How prompt-level attacks exploit LLM applications

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we looked at how attackers get access to and take advantage of the infrastructure and supply chains that shape generative AI applications. In this post, we'll discuss AI interfaces, which we define as the entry points and logic that determine how a user interacts with an AI application. These elements can include chat interfaces, such as AI assistants, and API endpoints for supporting services.

The Hallucinated Package Attack: Slopsquatting

Imagine a world where, in the middle of programming, your helpful AI assistant tells you to import a package called securehashlib. It sounds real. It looks real. You trust your silicon co-pilot. You run pip install securehashlib. Congratulations. You’ve just opened a backdoor into your software stack—and possibly your company’s infrastructure. The package didn’t exist until yesterday, when an attacker registered it based on a hallucination the AI made last week.

The 5 Biggest Bank Account Takeover Attacks in Recent Years (and How They Could Have Been Stopped)

Bank account takeover fraud is a growing global threat, costing financial institutions and customers billions each year. Attackers are refining their tactics, blending phishing, credential stuffing, and mobile malware to bypass traditional defenses. For banks, the stakes are high: a single breach can erode customer trust and regulatory standing overnight.

The MemcycoFM Show: Episode 12 - How The 5 Biggest Bank ATO Attacks Could've Been Stopped

Bank account takeover fraud is a growing global threat, costing financial institutions and customers billions each year. Attackers are refining their tactics, blending phishing, credential stuffing, and mobile malware to bypass traditional defenses. For banks, the stakes are high: a single breach can erode customer trust and regulatory standing overnight. We break down five of the most impactful account takeover attacks in recent years, examining what happened, how it happened, and how Memcyco’s real-time, browser-level, and mobile-layer protections could have mitigated the damage.

The Continuing Threat of Cyberattacks on Healthcare

The current trends in healthcare technology adoption present an interesting dynamic. Healthcare systems globally have been and continue to experience rapid digital transformation to the point where we now see increasingly embracing AI, internet-connected medical devices and telehealth solutions. Trustwave SpiderLabs captured what is taking place in its recent report Cybersecurity Challenges for Healthcare in 2025.

What We Know About the Sonicwall SSLVPN Attacks - The 443 Podcast - Episode 338

This week on the podcast, we discuss some recent research into a new zero day vulnerability in the popular WinRAR utility under active exploit. After that, we give a round up on everything we know about the SonicWall SSLVPN attacks from the last few weeks before ending with a review of a new ChatGPT vulnerability. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

Win-DoS Epidemic: A Crash Course in Abusing RPC for Win-DoS & Win-DDoS

A denial of service (DoS) attack is a malicious tactic used to disrupt the normal traffic of a server, service, or network. It occurs when an attacker attempts to flood a specific target server with an overwhelming amount of requests in an attempt to crash it or cause it to malfunction.

Why VAPT is Critical for Financial Services and FinTech

In 2024 alone, banks and financial institutions witnessed an alarming escalation in cyberattacks. According to the Indusface State of Application Security Report 2025, over 1.2 billion attacks targeted this sector, with each financial application experiencing twice as many attacks per site compared to the global average. Even more concerning, attacks on known vulnerabilities surged 74% between Q1 and Q4.

Credential Stuffing and ATO: 16 Billion Reasons Brands Are at Risk

Account takeover (ATO) is one of the most consistent and costly threats facing consumer-facing businesses in 2025. And this year, the problem has been supercharged by the Mother of All Breaches (MOAB), a credential leak containing 16 billion username and password combinations. It rarely begins with a breach of your own systems. More often, it starts with someone else’s data leak. Credentials are reused, recompiled, and redeployed across platforms you may not even realise are vulnerable.

FBI Report: Attackers Are Sending Physical Packages with Malicious QR Codes

The FBI has issued an advisory warning that scammers are distributing QR code phishing (quishing) links via unsolicited packages sent by snail mail. Recipients may scan the code to find out where the package came from, which will land them on a phishing page. This is a variation of a “brushing scam,” where unscrupulous vendors send packages designed to harvest information that can be used in phony positive reviews.

Top cyberattacks from the last six months: A deep dive into the digital battlefield

Cyberattacks today have become sophisticated digital disasters, capable of disrupting organizations within minutes. These attacks are no longer limited to surface-level exploits; threat actors now use advanced tactics to infiltrate and exploit trust within critical systems. As traditional security models struggle to keep up, organizations must adopt behavior-driven detection and proactive defense strategies.

Beyond Anomalies: How Autonomous Threat Hunting Uncovers the Full Attack Story

APIs are essential in today's digital landscape, supporting everything from mobile apps to vital backend systems. As their importance grows, they also become attractive targets for advanced attackers who bypass traditional security methods. These adversaries do not simply exploit API flaws; instead, they mimic normal user behavior to launch subtle, slow-and-low attacks that are difficult for conventional tools to detect.

What is DLL Sideloading? How to Detect and Prevent DLL Sideloading Attacks?

You update your antivirus. You install that fancy EDR. You think you’re safe. But, surprise, Hackers are still getting in without triggering a single alarm. By hijacking trusted apps and making them load malicious code, voluntarily. This sneaky move is called DLL Sideloading, and it’s becoming the cybercriminal’s favourite backdoor. Sounds horrifying? It is. But here’s the good news for you. If you understand how DLL sideloading works, you can catch it before it wrecks your system.

Turning Data Disaster into Strategy: Lessons to Learn from Malware Attacks

Malware, as one of many cyber threats, is not some random annoyance. Yet, there is nothing polite about it. It bypasses your firewall and establishes itself in your system. Then, escalated privileges are granted, and processes are killed. If you are particularly unlucky, malware encrypts your core and sticks around like a parasite in the CI/CD. So, it’s not about chaos but orchestration. That means you’re forgetting about something.

API Security Attack Vectors (2025): A Complete Guide

APIs run the show today. Whether it’s a mobile app fetching user data, a SaaS platform integrating with Stripe, or a microservice coordinating with ten others, APIs are the glue and the backbone. This is something that attackers are notoriously aware of. The challenge? Most security tooling still operates on a page-view and form-based model. It can’t view the business logic of API calls, like knowing who is supposed to do what on what object and in what context.

Wi-Fi Intrusion from neighboring networks, how to stop the Nearest Neighbor Attacks

Wireless networks have traditionally been a weak point in corporate cybersecurity. However, what was once a localized risk, limited to an office space, has now evolved into a more sophisticated threat, making detection more difficult.

Account Takeover Nightmare: Why You're Always Fighting Fires! #appsec #cybersecurity

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.