Attackers are adept at identifying and exploiting the most cost-effective methods of compromise, highlighting the critical need for organizations to implement asset identification and understand assets’ security posture in relation to the network.

In recent months, Sucuri researchers encountered a number of cases where attackers inject malware into website software that allows for custom or miscellaneous code, such as the Magento admin panel or WordPress plugins.

In 2022, Earth Hundun began using the latest version of Waterbear (aka Deuterbear) which has several changes, including anti-memory scanning and decryption routines, that distinguish it from the original Waterbear.

An ongoing malvertising campaign is targeting IT administrators looking to download system utilities such as PuTTY (a free SSH and Telnet client) and FileZilla (a free cross-platform FTP application).

Users started noticing on Monday that X’s programmers implemented a rule on its iOS app that auto-changed Twitter.com links that appeared in Xeets (tweets) to X.com links.

Researchers have demonstrated the “first native Spectre v2 exploit” for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors.

What’s particularly intriguing according to the researchers is the actor’s apparent employment of a PowerShell script likely generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini or CoPilot.

The report from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), painted security as more of an afterthought for UK businesses, especially when considering the figures about how breaches are handled.

CISOs and other management-level cybersecurity executives are gaining more influence and importance as companies have begun to recognize the need for strong cyber governance and oversight, according to a report from Moody’s Ratings.