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.
If the feature is enabled, certain sensitive admin actions can be taken only if approved by an admin who did not initiate them and thus, in theory, preventing accidental or unauthorized changes made by either malicious insiders or outsiders
Wiz purchased a cloud detection and response startup founded by a longtime Israeli Military Intelligence leader to address security operations and incident response use cases.
Attackers create malicious GitHub repositories with popular names and topics, using techniques like automated updates and fake stars to boost search rankings and deceive users.
The lead investor for the Series C funding is Coatue, which is new to the startup’s cap table. Other new investors include Spark Capital, Georgian, and strategic backer AT&T Ventures.
The vulnerability, which carries a perfect 10 base severity score, is tracked as CVE-2024-24576. It affects the Rust standard library, which was found to be improperly escaping arguments when invoking batch files on Windows using the Command API.
According to Cisco’s Talos threat research team, Starry Addax has been active since January 2024, orchestrating spear-phishing campaigns aimed at individuals sympathetic to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) cause.
These techniques can bypass the detection and enforcement policies of traditional tools, such as cloud access security brokers, data loss prevention, and SIEMs, by hiding downloads as less suspicious access and sync events.