The cybersecurity threat landscape never stands still. New threats and threat actors appear all the time. They are highly trained, well-funded, and leverage the newest tools to pursue some form of cybercrime — extortion, terrorism, data theft, the list goes on.
The Iran-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor MuddyWater was observed deploying a backdoor that abuses Slack on the network of an Asian airline, IBM Security X-Force reports.
Facebook parent Meta announced Thursday the shutdown of some 1,500 accounts tied to “cyber mercenary” companies accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide on behalf of paying clients.
Security researchers at Google’s Project Zero have picked apart one of the most notorious in-the-wild iPhone exploits and found a never-before-seen hacking roadmap that included a PDF file pretending to be a GIF image with a custom-coded virtual CPU built out of boolean pixel operations.
Fresh off a high-profile legal triumph over Apple, virtualization technology startup Corellium is now enjoying the attention of investors with Paladin Capital Group leading a $25 million funding round.
Tens of thousands of devices around the world, including many industrial control systems (ICS) and government computers, have been targeted in what appears to be an espionage campaign that involves a new piece of malware dubbed PseudoManuscrypt, Kaspersky revealed on Thursday.
Symantec researchers have analyzed what appears to be the first ransomware family written in the Rust programming language.
Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry.
A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court’s decision that the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system.
