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Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign

May 1, 2025adminuserCyber

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a

May

New Research Reveals: 95% of AppSec Fixes Don’t Reduce Risk

May 1, 2025adminuserCyber

For over a decade, application security teams have faced a brutal irony: the more advanced the detection tools became, the less useful their results proved to be. As alerts from static analysis tools, scanners, and CVE databases surged, the promise of better security grew more distant. In its place, a new reality took hold—one defined...

May

DarkWatchman, Sheriff Malware Hit Russia and Ukraine with Stealth and Nation-Grade Tactics

May 1, 2025adminuserCyber

Russian companies have been targeted as part of a large-scale phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a known malware called DarkWatchman. Targets of the attacks include entities in the media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecom, transport, and biotechnology sectors, Russian cybersecurity company F6 said. The activity is assessed to be the work...

May

Commvault Confirms Hackers Exploited CVE-2025-3928 as Zero-Day in Azure Breach

May 1, 2025adminuserCyber

Enterprise data backup platform Commvault has revealed that an unknown nation-state threat actor breached its Microsoft Azure environment by exploiting CVE-2025-3928 but emphasized there is no evidence of unauthorized data access. “This activity has affected a small number of customers we have in common with Microsoft, and we are working with those customers to provide...

May

SonicWall Confirms Active Exploitation of Flaws Affecting Multiple Appliance Models

May 1, 2025adminuserCyber

SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) – Improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to

Apr

Researchers Demonstrate How MCP Prompt Injection Can Be Used for Both Attack and Defense

April 30, 2025adminuserCyber

As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, new research has found how techniques that render the Model Context Protocol (MCP) susceptible to prompt injection attacks could be used to develop security tooling or identify malicious tools, according to a new report from Tenable. MCP, launched by Anthropic in...

Apr

[Free Webinar] Guide to Securing Your Entire Identity Lifecycle Against AI-Powered Threats

April 30, 2025adminuserCyber

How Many Gaps Are Hiding in Your Identity System? It’s not just about logins anymore. Today’s attackers don’t need to “hack” in—they can trick their way in. Deepfakes, impersonation scams, and AI-powered social engineering are helping them bypass traditional defenses and slip through unnoticed. Once inside, they can take over accounts, move laterally, and cause...

Apr

Chinese Hackers Abuse IPv6 SLAAC for AitM Attacks via Spellbinder Lateral Movement Tool

April 30, 2025adminuserCyber

A China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group called TheWizards has been linked to a lateral movement tool called Spellbinder that can facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. “Spellbinder enables adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks, through IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) spoofing, to move laterally in the compromised network, intercepting packets and

Apr

Customer Account Takeovers: The Multi-Billion Dollar Problem You Don’t Know About

April 30, 2025adminuserCyber

Everyone has cybersecurity stories involving family members. Here’s a relatively common one. The conversation usually goes something like this: “The strangest thing happened to my streaming account. I got locked out of my account, so I had to change my password. When I logged back in, all my shows were gone. Everything was in Spanish...

Apr

Nebulous Mantis Targets NATO-Linked Entities with Multi-Stage Malware Attacks

April 30, 2025adminuserCyber

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Russian-speaking cyber espionage group called Nebulous Mantis that has deployed a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT since mid-2022. RomCom “employs advanced evasion techniques, including living-off-the-land (LOTL) tactics and encrypted command and control (C2) communications, while continuously evolving its infrastructure – leveraging

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Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign

New Research Reveals: 95% of AppSec Fixes Don’t Reduce Risk

DarkWatchman, Sheriff Malware Hit Russia and Ukraine with Stealth and Nation-Grade Tactics

Commvault Confirms Hackers Exploited CVE-2025-3928 as Zero-Day in Azure Breach

SonicWall Confirms Active Exploitation of Flaws Affecting Multiple Appliance Models

Researchers Demonstrate How MCP Prompt Injection Can Be Used for Both Attack and Defense

[Free Webinar] Guide to Securing Your Entire Identity Lifecycle Against AI-Powered Threats

Chinese Hackers Abuse IPv6 SLAAC for AitM Attacks via Spellbinder Lateral Movement Tool

Customer Account Takeovers: The Multi-Billion Dollar Problem You Don’t Know About

Nebulous Mantis Targets NATO-Linked Entities with Multi-Stage Malware Attacks

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