Tag: security

By Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP of Product at Skyhigh Security For decades, enterprise security was largely focused on endpoints and networks. By protecting corporate end-user devices, establishing secure connectivity, and controlling access to on-premises resources, teams could effectively keep their centralized servers secure from intrusion. Eventually, these priorities evolved as enterprises embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and […]

Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the 40-year-old Belarusian national was sentenced for conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy […]

A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims. ​26-year-old Connor Riley Moucka, also known as Alexander Moucka and Waifu, was arrested on October 30, 2024, for stealing […]

Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. The attack was discovered by Huntress on July 27, 2026, after its security platform detected credential theft on a server hosting an Oracle database server. Apache access logs showed that the attackers […]

A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software. Proofpoint, which discovered the campaign, says it uses emails impersonating COLDCARD that claim a security audit is underway across its hardware cold storage wallet devices. The phishing […]

Blocklists were already losing ground before AI entered the picture. Phishing domains have been getting shorter-lived for years, campaigns have been burning infrastructure faster, and the gap between blocklists and attacker campaigns keeps getting wider. AI just finished the job. Attackers are using AI to generate phishing pages from screenshots in minutes, spin up and […]

TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaws were uncovered by Forescout’s Vedere Labs researchers, who published the full details at the Black Hat USA security conference earlier today. Omada is TP-Link’s business […]

The Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has expanded from credential phishing to adversary-in-the-middle attacks and device-code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. The platform has been active since at least mid-2022, targeting Microsoft 365 users in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. It evolved over the years and now targets multiple platforms, including Microsoft […]

A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. Xcode is the official software development kit (SDK) for creating, testing, and publishing software for all Apple’s platforms. After months of inactivity, XCSSET has resurfaced with an updated version, v40, that features enhanced evasion techniques and […]