As Splunk celebrates the 10th anniversary of Boss of the SOC competition, it continues to be a valuable platform for security professionals to test their skills, learn new techniques, and potentially advance their careers in cybersecurity.

The loophole allows cyberattackers to exfiltrate company data via OpenAI’s infrastructure, leaving no trace at all on enterprise systems.

An Iran-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC1549 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting European telecommunications companies, successfully infiltrating 34 devices across 11 organizations as part of a recruitment-themed activity on LinkedIn. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the cluster under the name Subtle Snail. It’s assessed to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic

A proxy network known as REM Proxy is powered by malware known as SystemBC, offering about 80% of the botnet to its users, according to new findings from the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies. “REM Proxy is a sizeable network, which also markets a pool of 20,000 Mikrotik routers and a variety of…

Following a pandemic-era respite, financial fraud linked to synthetic identities is rising again, with firms potentially facing $3.3 billion in damages from new accounts.

Fortra has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software that could result in the execution of arbitrary commands. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. “A deserialization vulnerability in the License Servlet of Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT allows an actor with a…

The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offering known as Lighthouse and Lucid has been linked to more than 17,500 phishing domains targeting 316 brands from 74 countries. “Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) deployments have risen significantly recently,” Netcraft said in a new report. “The PhaaS operators charge a monthly fee for phishing software with pre-installed templates impersonating, in some cases,

Frameworks may seem daunting to implement — especially for government IT teams that may not have an abundance of resources and expertise. But beginning implementation is better than never starting.

A Charming Kitten subgroup is performing some of the most bespoke cyberattacks ever witnessed in the wild, to down select high-value targets.

While the cloud vulnerability was fixed prior to disclosure, the researcher who discovered it says it could have led to catastrophic attacks, alarming some in the security community.