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LevelBlue Labs has identified a new evolution in the toolset of threat actors. Threat actors are hijacking legitimate anti-virus software to carry out malicious activities undetected. A new tool, named SbaProxy, has been found masquerading as legitimate anti-virus components to establish proxy connections through a command and control (C&C) server.

The digital landscape constantly shifts, presenting exciting opportunities and lurking threats for businesses of all sizes. In this ever-evolving environment, maintaining a secure network is no longer a luxury; it's a necessity. However, achieving true security requires more than just firewalls and antivirus software. It demands a comprehensive understanding of your network's vulnerabilities – the chinks in your digital armor that attackers could exploit.

TLDR: The ways that organizations find and fix security exposures have been flawed for years. Traditional vulnerability management (VM) programs have failed to address the core issues. What’s worse, the relatively new category of External Attack Surface Management (EASM) has not solved the problems it aimed to solve. But hope, in the form of Exposure Management, is on the way.

Streaming services are one of the most popular targets for cybercriminals. Using automated bots, attackers steal millions of streaming accounts each month. Adversaries quickly sell these via illegal marketplaces to make massive profits. Although any streaming service is vulnerable to account takeover and credential stuffing attacks, there are additional risks and damages when live event streaming is on offer.

Artificial intelligence has taken over almost every aspect of our everyday lives. In cybersecurity, generative AI models with natural language processing are commonly being used to predict, detect, and respond to threats. But AI security assistants, although an upgrade from traditional machine learning, only provide very basic queries and summarization, which is insufficient to fully comprehend modern cloud attacks. As part of an ongoing effort to improve the cloud detection and response (CDR) experience,

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has warned that threat actors are increasingly using AI to enhance phishing and other social engineering attacks, Channel News Asia reports. The CSA’s report found that cybercriminals are selling tools that automate these attacks, allowing unskilled threat actors to launch sophisticated attacks.

Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted a malvertising campaign that abused Google Ads to target people searching for Google Authenticator. If someone typed “Google Authenticator” into Google, the malicious ad would be at the top of the search results. The ad copied the website description from the real Google Authenticator, but would redirect users to a phishing site. “We can follow what happens when you click on the ad by monitoring web traffic,” the researchers explain.

This week, I’m excited to announce Cloud Enrichment for AWS, GCP, and Azure. These enhancements are designed to accelerate incident response and unlock threat hunting capabilities by automatically combining the insights of your cloud network with the native control plane data from your cloud service provider.

Identity theft is a concern for everyone living in the digital age. By stealing someone’s identity, a criminal can gain access to their credit cards and financial accounts or apply for credit using the victim’s identity. The compromise of your identity can lead to numerous troubling circumstances. Cybercriminals have learned to leverage identity theft to access vast amounts of personal and sensitive information within digital enterprises.

Cybercriminals are notorious for their opportunism. No situation is off limits: whether they exploit conflict and human suffering, blackmail vulnerable individuals by threatening to leak therapy notes, or even bring healthcare organizations to their knees, cybercriminals will stop at nothing to make a quick buck. Hurricane season is a particularly lucrative time of year for cybercriminals.