The threat actor behind the exploitation of vulnerable Craft Content Management System (CMS) instances has shifted its tactics to target Magento CMS and misconfigured Docker instances. The activity has been attributed to a threat actor tracked as Mimo (aka Hezb), which has a long history of leveraging N-day security flawsRead More »Threat Actor Mimo Targets Magento and Docker to Deploy Crypto Miners and Proxyware
AI voice clones can impersonate people in a way that Altman said is increasingly “indistinguishable from reality” and will require new methods for verification. The post OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns of AI Voice Fraud Crisis in Banking appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Windows banking trojan known as Coyote has become the first known malware strain to exploit the Windows accessibility framework called UI Automation (UIA) to harvest sensitive information. “The new Coyote variant is targeting Brazilian users, and uses UIA to extract credentials linked to 75 banking institutes’ web addresses andRead More »New Coyote Malware Variant Exploits Windows UI Automation to Steal Banking Credentials
Experts unpack the risks of trusting agentic AI, arguing that fallibility, hype, and a lack of transparency demand caution—before automation outpaces our understanding. The post Should We Trust AI? Three Approaches to AI Fallibility appeared first on SecurityWeek.
French authorities announced that an alleged admin of XSS.is, one of the longest-running cybercrime forums, has been arrested in Ukraine. The post France Says Administrator of Cybercrime Forum XSS Arrested in Ukraine appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Critics warn that a ban on ransomware payments may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, including forcing victims into secrecy or incentivizing attackers to shift tactics. The post UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban: Bold Strategy or Dangerous Gamble? appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Akamai’s analysis of the Coyote malware revealed that it abuses Microsoft’s UIA accessibility framework to obtain data. The post Coyote Banking Trojan First to Abuse Microsoft UIA appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A database with 3.5 million records was exposed, with no password protection or encryption.
The US government has issued an alert on the Interlock ransomware, which targets organizations via drive-by download attacks. The post Organizations Warned of Interlock Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit: Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software. These devices lack Google’s security protections, and the perpetratorsRead More »Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators
