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The Evolution of Cyber Attacks: Lessons for Staying Safe in 2025

Dec 16, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The pace at which cyberattacks are evolving has accelerated in recent years, driven by technological advances, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The sophistication of cybercriminals' tactics has reached unprecedented levels, posing new challenges for traditional cybersecurity defenses. In this article, we will explore the key developments in cyber threats, identify emerging risks, and offer practical lessons on how businesses and individuals can stay safe in 2025.
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The Key Steps to Ensuring DORA Compliance

Dec 13, 2024 By Alasdair Anderson, VP of EMEA In Protegrity
As we approach 2025, financial institutions across the EU face the challenge of complying with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which is set to take effect on the 17th of January. DORA is focused on strengthening cybersecurity and operational resilience across financial ecosystems, with the consequences for non-compliance ranging from regulatory fines to reputational damage and an increased risk of cyberattacks.
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How Threat Hunters Can Detect Scattered Spider Attacks and Related Intrusions

Dec 12, 2024 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
Cyberattacks are becoming more advanced, and groups like Scattered Spider are leading the way with their sophisticated techniques. This group is notorious for using social engineering methods like SIM swapping, voice phishing, and SMS phishing to trick employees into giving them access to sensitive systems. By pretending to be IT administrators, they bypass traditional security defenses, moving through networks unnoticed and stealing valuable data.
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Trustwave

Analyzing Salt Typhoon: Telecom Attacker

Dec 12, 2024 By Trustwave In Trustwave
Salt Typhoon is a Chinese-speaking threat actor that the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have tied to a series of attacks that breached and exfiltrated data from several of the world's most prominent telecommunications companies. Trustwave SpiderLabs has created a deep analysis of the threat group Salt Typhoon, detailing the group's history, techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTP), and preferred targets.
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tripwire

27 DDoS-For-Hire Services Disrupted In Run-Up To Holiday Season

Dec 12, 2024 By Graham Cluley In Tripwire
In a co-ordinated international effort, the law enforcement agencies of 15 countries have made the holiday season a little less stressful for companies and consumers - by seizing control of some of the internet's most popular DDoS-for-hire services. Operation PowerOFF has disrupted what was anticipated to be a surge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the Christmas period by taking over two dozen "booter" or "stresser" websites offline.
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The Ultralytics Supply Chain Attack: Connecting the Dots with GitGuardian's Public Monitoring Data

Dec 11, 2024 By Guillaume Valadon In GitGuardian
On December 4, 2024, the Ultralytics Python module was backdoored to deploy a cryptominer. Using GitGuardian’s data, we reconstructed deleted commits, connecting the dots with the initial analysis. This investigation highlights the value of GitGuardian’s data in understanding supply chain attacks.
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Ultralytics AI Pwn Request Supply Chain Attack

Dec 11, 2024 By Stephen Thoemmes In Snyk
The ultralytics supply chain attack occurred in two distinct phases between December 4-7, 2024. In the first phase, two malicious versions were published to PyPI: version 8.3.41 was released on December 4 at 20:51 UTC and remained available for approximately 12 hours until its removal on December 5 at 09:15 UTC. Version 8.3.42 was published shortly after on December 5 at 12:47 UTC and was available for about one hour before removal at 13:47 UTC.
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Phishing Holds the Top Spot as the Primary Entry Point for Ransomware Attacks

Dec 10, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
New analysis of ransomware attacks shows that phishing is the primary delivery method and organizations need to offer more effective security awareness training to mitigate the threat. Hornet Security’s Q3 2024 Ransomware Attacks Survey report paints a pretty bleak picture of how organizations have fared this year against ransomware attacks. So almost one in five organizations is a victim. According to the survey data, 52.3% of the attacks started with a phishing email.
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