Sixty thousand emails from U.S. State Department accounts were noted by a staffer working for Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., to have been exfiltrated by Chinese threat actors during the widespread compromise of Microsoft email accounts that commenced in May, according to Reuters.
Threat actors have leveraged the ZeroFont phishing attack technique, which initially involved the insertion of hidden characters or words in emails to evade security detection systems, to modify message previews as shown on Microsoft Outlook and other email clients, BleepingComputer reports.
Endpoints are everywhere and come in many forms, and especially in today’s BYOD environment, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to maintain visibility and control over all of them. Unfortunately, rouge endpoints represent an enticing attack vendor for adversaries who are always looking for a way inside your network. But according to an August 202...
Forrester Research releases a few annual reoccurring cybersecurity reports, but one of the biggest that covers the most ground is the Security Risk Planning Guide, which was recently released for 2024. One of the report's 17 authors, and research director, Merritt Maxim, will walk us through the report's most interesting insights and highlights. Th...
Nearly 12,000 internet-facing Juniper firewall devices were discovered by VulnCheck to be impacted by a new medium-severity remote code execution vulnerability, which could be exploited to facilitate the execution of arbitrary code without the need to create a file, The Hacker News reports.
BleepingComputer reports that individuals who have filed claims against bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius have been subjected to phishing attacks involving the impersonation of the lender's claims agent, Stretto.
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