Mideast, African Hackers Target Gov’ts, Banks, Small Retailers
In the hotly political Middle East, you’d expect hacktivism and disruption of services. But retail attacks?
In the hotly political Middle East, you’d expect hacktivism and disruption of services. But retail attacks?
E-commerce security company Sansec has warned that threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms, with more than 250 attack attempts recorded against multiple stores over the past 24 hours. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-54236 (CVSS score: 9.1), a critical improper input validation…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), impacts on-premises versions of Lanscope Endpoint Manager, specifically Client
The campaign is the latest effort by the North Korean threat actor to collect data of strategic interest to Pyongyang.
Pwn2Own Ireland kicked off on Oct. 21 and what researchers found continued to highlight how secure development practices are lacking across the industry.
The goal is to apply psychology principles to security training to change behaviors and security outcomes.
Researchers find it takes far less to manipulate a large language model’s (LLM) behavior than anyone previously assumed.
Hardcoded credentials, access tokens, and API keys are ending up in the darnedest places, prompting a call for organizations to stop over-privileging secrets.
NSO Group must pay $4 million in damages and is permanently prohibited from reverse-engineering WhatsApp or creating new accounts after targeting users with spyware.
The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including over 100 government entities. The end goal of the campaign is to infiltrate high-value targets…